Walt Disney And Quinn's Character

Rees Quinn, the author of Disney, is not very well known. He studied history at the University of South California and Disney is his first text. While he is not very experienced, Quinn seems to be a credible author. To see if his information was credible, I cross-referenced some of the information I read about in Disney. According to Biography.com, Quinn was accurate with the information he wrote about Disney’s earlier years. I also did further research on the information Quinn gave about Disney’s personality. He seemed to be correct in that account as well. However, Quinn seemed to focus on Disney’s darker traits, writing, “Ultimately, Walt Disney’s greatest creation was Walt Disney. Disney was more than a man, more than a name. It was an

Before Alice was completed, however, Laugh-O-Grams was forced into bankruptcy. With the closing of his company, Walt decided that Hollywood was his next stop. While he tried to earn the money he needed to get there, all his efforts failed and he ended up having to sell his camera. After arriving in Hollywood, Walt and his brother, Roy began a company they called the Disney Brothers’ Studio. History was made in that “’little green and white structure with a red roof’’(L. 276). Here, the brother’s created a spin-off of Alice in Wonderland called the Alice Comedies, which were a hit in New York theaters. As business grew, Walt brought in a few of his old animators from Kansas City, along with his future wife, Lillian Bounds. However, money was still tight for the Disney Brother’s

Because of a secret split-deal with Universal Pictures that Walt’s distributor made, though, Walt was blindsided and lost Oswald as a character. Again, Walt turned his hardships to his advantage. On a return trip to Hollywood, he created his most iconic character, Mickey Mouse. This new character starred in Steamboat Willie, the first synchronized sound cartoon. As more and more jobs came up, Disney became more and more preoccupied with his work. He spent less time at home, prompting Lillian to describe herself jokingly as a “’mouse widow’”(L.