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In August 1923, Walt Disney left Kansas City for Hollywood with nothing
but a few drawing materials, $40 in his pocket, and a completed animated
and live-action film. Walt's brother, Roy O. Disney, was already in
California, with an immense amount of sympathy and encouragement,
and $250. Pooling their resources, they borrowed an additional $500 and
constructed a camera stand in their uncle's garage. Soon they received
an order from New York for the first "Alice Comedy" featurette, and the
brothers began their production operation in the rear of a Hollywood real
estate office two blocks away.
On July 13, 1925, Walt married one of his first employees,
Lillian Bounds, in Lewiston, Idaho. They were blessed with
two daughters -- Diane, married to Ron Miller, former president
and chief executive officer of Walt Disney Productions;
and Sharon Disney Lund, a member of Disney's Board of Directors.
The Millers have seven children and Mrs. Lund had three.
Mickey Mouse was created in 1928, and his talents were first
used in a silent cartoon entitled "Plane Crazy." Before
the cartoon could be released, however, sound burst upon
the motion picture screen. Thus Mickey made his screen debut
in "Steamboat Willie," the world's first fully synchronized
sound cartoon, which premiered at the Colony Theatre in
New York on November 18, 1928.
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