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| Continued from Page 2 ... 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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