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    Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor-The Genius of Ub Iwerks: A Book Review…

                                                                                                                                      Several Weeks ago, I was given the amazing opportunity to interview Don Iwerks, son of Disney Legend Ub Iwerks. The purpose of the interview was to discuss his book honoring his fathers’ incredible contributions and inventions for the film industry, and in particular, Walt Disney and his studio. It was Walt and Ub, both at the young age of 19 years old who worked together and helped launch the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studios. As any Disney aficionado knows, Ub was the “Fasted pencil in the business” who could draw up to 600 drawings a day and it was he who gave Mickey Mouse his physical form, and it was…

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    Interview with Don Iwerks-Author of “Walt Disney’s Ultimate Inventor: The Genius of Ub Iwerks…

                                                                                                                         It is not often that a writer has the opportunity to report on a ground-breaking story, but for this writer, that dream has come to fruition. I was contacted by Don’s PR representative to review perhaps one of the most important books on Disney history written, and to interview Don. I have loved Disney and its history since childhood, and have been blessed with writing about, and covering Disney press events for 15 years.                                                                                                                   So much Disney history is being lost to the sands of time. Sadly, as the years go by, another person intimately involved with the Company is gone, and so many who…

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