-
Alice, Oswald, Mickey All Walt Disney’s Triumphants
Walt Disney did not invent animation. He was not the first to put sound to his cartoons or even give personality to a cartoon character. But Walt did take the idea of moving drawings, barely understood by the artists who drew them and an audience who did not take them seriously, into a sophisticated highly refined art form that today because of Walt’s innovations and creativity are as popular as live films and are a multi-million dollar business today.
-
The Alice Comedies-Beginning of the Disney Company…
History has always been a fascination in my life. From my earliest recollections, I have been enamored with the past, and this is especially true when it comes to my favorite subject, Walt Disney. Along the way, I have also become a card carrying nostalgic. With today’s CGI computer controlled world, cartoons and movies have rocketed ahead light-years from what they were just a short time ago. Now Walt would be in his element, he always embraced technology and science, lauding the latest and greatest to produce his creations. But sometimes, I long for the simple and entertaining early cartoon shorts, where the rubber hose technique was king and the…