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Walt Disney: An American Original is a 1976 biographical book of Walt Disney by Bob Thomas.[1][2] It was revised by Disney Editions in 1994.[3][4] Walt Disney is known as an American hero by changing American culture with his creation of Mickey Mouse.[5] He was a man who developed animated film into an art form and made a massive contribution to the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of our world passed through the generations by word of mouth.[6] After years of research, Bob Thomas, a Hollywood biographer, produced a biography of the man behind the legend of Disney, with the inside help of the Disney family and the access to private papers and letters.[5] Walt Disney: An American Original is a biography of Walt Disney, complete with a rare collection of photographs and inside details about the creator himself.[6]
Summary[edit]
An American Original: Walt Disney shows the life of Walt Disney before he was born, during his life, and after his death.[7] The author starts the novel by describing how Walt had first established a business soon after he returned from France in World War One.[7] The company was called Laugh - O - Grams, and they produced mostly political cartoons with a few ads and comics.[7] As the company was unable to make long-term contracts and the cartoons that Walt drew were mostly forgotten and thrown away, the company was short lived.[7] Soon after, Disney met a man, Ub lwerks, who together they founded another cartoon business called lwerks Disney.[7] Within the company, Disney and lwerks developed Oswald the Rabbit and later the world-famous Mickey Mouse.[7] Although Disney and lwerks tried to make deals all over the country, the business ran poorly throughout all of its existence.[7] One occurrence when Disney returned from a trip, he found that lwerks had left the business.[7] The company soon created lots of debt by the loss of lwerks.[7] Then with the sale of a group of short cartoons, the company soon was slowly brought out of debt.[7]
Walt and his older brother, Roy Disney, then changed the name of the company to The Walt Disney Company and developed a new form of cartoons, full length animated color cartoon movies.[7] Their first well known movie was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Although this movie was a hit and the Disney Company was growing in world-wide fame, they were still not saved from their debt woes.[7] They continued their work, and after the success of several more full-length animated movies, the company gradually arose from debt.[7] As a new invention known as the television graced America, Walt wanted to plan a show.[7] Knowing this was not enough, he was also working on a plan to build an amusement theme park.[7] Soon later, the television movies were big hits and Disneyland was set up within a matter of a few years.[7] Within the ten years following the introductory of Disney World, Walt’s health steadily declined.[7] Walt planned another theme park in Florida but was never able to see his dream of Disney World completed.[7] Sadly, Walt Disney passed away from a cancerous tumor brought on by his habit of smoking.[7]
Author[edit]
Robert Joseph Thomas was an American Hollywood film industry biographer and reporter.[8] He started working for the Associated Press in 1944.[8] He was born in San Diego on January 26, 1922 and grew up in Los Angeles where he then attended UCLA.[8] He soon married his wife Patricia and raised three daughters.[8] Bob Thomas wrote at least 30 books and had been writing about the movie business since the days when Hollywood was run by the men who founded it.[8] He then passed away on March 14, 2014 at the age of 92.[8]
Details[edit]
Language: English[9]
Release Date: November 1978[9]
Publisher: Touchstone[9]
Author: Bob Thomas[9]
Length: 379 Pages[9]
Weight: 1.65 lbs[9]
See Also[edit]
Walt: The Man Behind the Myth - 2001 documentary film in the same vein as Bob's book
References[edit]
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- ^ WorldCat
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- ^ a b c d e f ThriftBooks. "Walt Disney: An American Original book by Bob Thomas". ThriftBooks. Retrieved 2020-02-16.