It’s been more than fifty years since Walt Disney’s death. What we remember most are all of Walt’s successes. These successes include the world’s most popular cartoon character, Mickey Mouse; the world’s first full-length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; and his dream, a dream called Disneyland. What I fear, however, is that after all this time, the world has forgotten all of Walt’s failures. We forget that Walt went bankrupt at age twenty-one. We forget that he lost his first successful cartoon character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, to Charles Mintz and his distributor,
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