Thursday, July 10, 2014

Walt Before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928

Author: Timothy S. Susanin & Diane Disney Miller
Stars: 3
Review by: Mandy Apgar


About the career of Disney before he invented Mickey Mouse. Does not go into his childhood much, which I didn't like as it left out a lot of his motivation, and ends abruptly when his then animators defected for the man who bought out his first famous character of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Thomas' "An American Original" is still the best bio on Disney there is, but this one was good in giving a few extra details on his early collaborators - especially Ubbe Iwerks, and also his courtship of wife Lilly.

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