Imagine your childhood without the fun loving, adventurous Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Snow White, Cinderella and Rapunzel are some of the characters that filled our childhood. All these names can be traced to Walt Disney, the brain behind the Walt Disney Company.
Walt Disney arrived in California in the summer of 1923, hoping to make money. He had made a cartoon about a little girl named Alice. A distributor in New York agreed to distribute the Alice Comedies and this was the start of the Walt Disney Company with Walt and his brother Roy as equal partners.
Disney continued with Alice Comedies for four years, till he introduced a new character named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Though the Rabbit conquered children’s minds, Walt lost the copyright of the character and in order to make up for the loss, he created Mickey Mouse. Sound films came out around the same time and Mickey Mouse became a cartoon star in no time.
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