“Uncle Walt” Disney Once upon a time …

Creative genius, prudent financial, Walt Disney has marked the American and world culture. Not without leaving some darker images.

“Mickey, it’s me! ” Could say Disney. And not just because he has lent his voice to the character created in 1928. The famous mouse could be emblematic of his career: was it not also a little cunning animal who knew how to sneak among the pachyderms Hollywood and nibble its share of cheese? Walt Disney loved the legend that of the poor kid growing up in the deep South, which, true to the American dream, built an empire. Embellished the story contains some truth.
Mickey Mouse and the American Dream

Born in 1901, the fourth son in a family of five, Walt had a difficult childhood. He has 4 years old when his father bought a farm in Marceline, Missouri. The experience will be as brief as unfortunate. In 1909 the farm was sold and Disney put their suitcases in Kansas City where, this time, the father, who has been a gold digger, violinist street or hotel manager, began distributing newspapers , hiring his son to push the dawn of paper carts.
The dawn of an empire

But life in the countryside remain Marceline Walt as a paradise that will not cease to exalt and recover. Since the animals that inhabit the universe of his films to the street that opens the Disneyland park, called “Main Street USA” , inspired by that of the rural town of Missouri. In contrast, lean times and forced labor in Kansas City do face a foil, but they will seal his ties with his elder Roy and forge his character. Walt Disney will be built partly against his father, cold and violent, multiplying the professional failures.
Not that the building of the Disney empire was a faultless. The beginnings in animation, from 1920, are marked by setbacks.