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Walt Disney's New York roots
Published Oct 14, 2009
Check out this interesting top ten list of Disney New York milestones from theboweryboys. Here is a sampling:
1) Disney Discovered
Small-time Kansas City animator Walt Disney spent much of 1923 writing New York film distributor Margaret Winkler, hoping she'd take a look at a new film he was creating,Alice's Wonderland -- a coy, self-reflexive mix of animation and live-action.
He was lucky; Winkler was looking to put pressure on her biggest star Pat Sullivan (creator of Felix The Cat), and Disney's strange little picture did the trick. She signed him and brother Roy, but retained editing control on the early 'Alice Comedies', inserting a Felix the Cat-like character named Julius, the first of hundreds of human-like animals in Disney films.
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