About This film is about Walt Disney's early years. For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed at, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation.
Preface / by Diane Disney Miller -- Introduction: Thanksgiving, 1966 -- Book one: Kansas City. Prologue the road to the first studios: commercial art, film, ads, and "home experimenting," 1919-1921 -- ...