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With the power of the B’nai B’rith and ADL behind him, Walt began sailing to fame. Movie studios
that had been turning out smut, with lots of sex and violence all jumped on the bandwagon
to show
Walt’s clean wholesome cartoons. Walt was the facelift Hollywood needed after the Depression
caused Americans to think about America’s morals. Many of the regular movie makers were so
corrupt they were out of touch with moral issues, but Walt Disney knew black from
white. The Jewish movie makers "pushed the man [Walt] they considered their best hope to the front
of the pack" who was billed as a fundamentalist
Christian (albeit a masonic "Christian" who rarely
stepped foot in a church). (quote from
Walt Disney Hollywood’s Prince of Darkness, p. 50.)
Strangely, the biographies
indicate that Walt quit doing the actual drawing in 1927, and Walt devoted
himself entirely to the development
of the cartoon business, such as raising money. In other words,
the image of Walt Disney being the artist who has created the Disney cartoon’s is inaccurate. The
Disney brothers actually hired many other artists to do the art work. If Walt quit drawing in 1927, and
their first marketable cartoon was in 1928, that clearly shows that Walt did not do the actual
cartooning. He continued to oversee the work, walking in and rigidly
inspecting what was being done
to suit his own intuitive tastes. Actually the genius cartoon artist (animator) who made Walt Disney a
success was Ub Iwerks, about whom Walt on a number of occasions said was "the best animator in
the world". Without Ub Iwerks to take Walt’s ideas and turn them into reality, Walt would never have
become famous. Ub was an incredible genius who had a sense of line, a sense of humor, patience,
organization
and a great sense of what Walt wanted. Walt treated him cruelly at times, interrupting
him, playing tricks on him, and not being totally honest with paying him, but he stayed with Walt
over the years and made Walt the success Walt became. (The books Disney’s World and Disney
Animation: The Illusion of Life have information
on the unheralded genius Ub Iwerks.) Another
unknown great artist was Floyd Gottfredson.
Floyd Gottfredson
drew all the Mickey Mouse cartoons
from 1932 until October, 1975--which
is a period of 45 1/2 years. Floyd Gottfredson was a Mormon
born in a railway station in 1905, and raised in a tiny Mormon town, Siggurd, 180 miles so. of Salt
Lake City. In 1931, before Floyd totally took over the Mickey Mouse drawings, he would take
suggestions from Walt on what to draw. For instance, Walt puzzled him by insisting he do a cartoon
series of Mickey Mouse committing
suicide. Floyd had said, "Walt, You’re kidding!" But Walt
thought that a series on suicide would be funny. Over the years the Walt Disney products never
mentioned Floyd’s name. The bulk of the fans were led to believe Walt did the cartooning of Mickey
Mouse himself. (See the book
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse in Color. Ed. Bruce Hamilton, pub. The
Walt Disney Co., 1988.)
Fred Moore was involved in the creation of Pluto and some other cartoon characters. The idea for
Pluto was Walt’s and it was Norm Ferguson’s genius at drawing that took the idea and created the
actual images. Walt Disney was awarded 32 personal academy awards for the work that was done by
his studios. Walt Disney’s famous signature was actually designed by someone else, and was taught
to Walt. (Schickel, Richard. The Disney Version: The Life, Time, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney.
NY, 1968, p. 34.) Walt could only make a crude Disney signature, so he delegated the writing of the
signature to several artists including Bob Moore, Disney’s publicity artist. Later, after much practice
he learned to make it well enough to do for publicity. Many people who wrote letters asking for his
actual signature, and who actually did his signature, thought that they had received forgeries by his
staff, because the famous Disney signature was so crude. The nicer looking ones were the forgeries.
One cartoon animator who joined Disney in 1940 recalled that Walt told him the first day, "You’re
new here, and I want you to understand just one thing. What we’re selling here is the name Walt
Disney. If you can swallow that and always remember it, you’ll be happy here. But if you’ve got any
ideas about seeing the name Ken Anderson [his name] up there, its best for you to leave right away."
OCCULT PORN KING
Walt grew up fascinated with the occult and in an abusive home situation. He was fascinated with
cartoons, nature and children. He had an intuitive sense for quality cartoons that would appeal to
children. At some point, the syndicate got him indebted to them. At that point he was their man. He
