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PERSONAL DETAILS
Walt had black hair with a black mustache, and bright quick eyes and was about 6’ tall. He used his
own facial features to clue artists on how to draw Mickey Mouse’s features. He liked specially rolled
brown cigarettes which he smoked up to 70 a day. He picked up the smoking habit in the army. He
loved expensive Scotch Whiskey, red sunsets, and horses. He had a vacation home in Palm Springs,
CA called the Smoke Tree Ranch. He often wore the Ranch’s letter STR emblazoned on his necktie.
He played lots of golf with Bob Hope and Ed Sullivan at the ST Ranch. His main home was an estate
in Holmby Hills. The Holmby Hills estate was located in a plush area where lots of rich show-
business families lived. It was located between Bel-Air (an occult word for Satan) & Beverly Hills.
Walt spent many of his nights at the Disney Studios and later he had his own private quarters at the
center of Disneyland.
He had reoccurring bouts of insomnia. (For his nerves and insomnia he’d take
alcohol and tranquilizers.)
He’d go weeks on end without stepping foot on the Holmby Hills estate
and seeing his family.
The main topic at the studio by the staff during different time periods was Walt’s bizarre behavior--
he would not be available until late afternoon, when he would emerge from the studio’s subterranean
maze of tunnels, where supposedly he was "chatting with the maintenance
engineers" everyday. The
value of his estate when he died was 35 million dollars of which Lillian his wife inherited half. In his
later years, when Disney took a vacation he went to Paris for 3 weeks, and 3 weeks at the Hotel du
Cap, in Antibes, and then cruised on Fritz Loew’s yacht with Ron and Diane Disney. In England,
Walt spent time with the British Royal family and met privately with masonic prophet H.G. Wells. In
Rome, Walt visited privately with the Pope and the dictator Mussolini. In 1966, Walt Disney died.
Prior to his
death he had investigated
cryogenesis--being
frozen, and it is believed by some that his body is frozen
somewhere in California, while others claim he was cremated.
MICKEY MOUSE
According to one source, the inspiration for Walt to create Mickey Mouse came when he was
unemployed and saw a mouse in the gutter. There are quite a few stories in circulation as to where the
idea came from. Ub Iwerks claimed he thought Mickey up at an animator’s meeting in Hollywood.
Walt once said, "There is a lot of the Mouse in me." (biographical
article written by Elting E.
Morison, p. 131) In fact, Ub Iwerks told Walt that Mickey Mouse "looks exactly like you--same nose,
same face, same whiskers, same gestures and expressions.
All he needs now is your voice." Walt
often did serve as Mickey’s voice. A book put out by Walt Disney Co. in 1988 reveals that Walt
Disney told Ward Kimball
"Quite frankly, I prefer animals to people." Walt usually was the voice
behind Mickey Mouse, (even though he wasn’t the artist.) His mother was chilly for years about the
work Walt did. Around 1940, after much pleading, he finally got her to watch Mickey Mouse. His
unsupportive
mother (which he would within a few years learn was not actually his biological
mother) told him she didn’t like Mickey Mouse’s voice, to which he told her it was his, and then she
responded by saying he had a horrible voice. The "cold towel" she threw on Mickey Mouse helped
convince Walt to quit making Mickey Mouse cartoons. Very few came out of Disney after that, and
the very next Mickey Mouse full-length feature cartoon, Fantasia, had Mickey mostly silent.
Walt’s idea for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was based on some of his own ideas. Walt had had the
dream which was used for Mickey Mouse in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
of having "complete control
of the earth and the elements." Disneyland and Disneyworld were partial fulfillments of that dream for
control. Walt’s final pet project just prior to his death was the meticulously
restored version of the
witchcraft film ,,Bedknobs and Broomsticks."
(Disney Magazine, Winter 96-97, pub. by Disney, p. 96
mentions this.) As a programming
device, Mickey Mouse works well because it plays on the
subconscious
genetically transmitted fear of mice that women have. Mickey’s image can help create a
