Mickey Mouse's creator — tall, slight of build, friendly- – lays polo, dislikes golf because it gives him too much lime to think about his work. He started on a shoestring; now, at 36, has 600 workers. They all call him Walt.
1. Walt Disney, nearing completion of his first featurelength picture, wishes there were some other word than “cartoon" to describe "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." He explains—“We are trying to make things of real beauty, not caricatures.”
2. Making his hands do some of the talking, Disney says ‘ ‘Snow White’ has been a job full of problems. We’ve been working on the idea nearly three years. When it’s completed, the cost probably will , exceed a million dollars." He expects to get his money back.
3. “One of our greatest problems,” he confides, “was how to draw human beings and put personality into them. But we’ve licked it. For our heroine we put to work artists who loved to draw pretty girls.” Another worry—the danger of getting laughs in the wrong places.
4. Displaying reproductions of the dwarfs, Disney explains he never has time to do any of the drawing himself—too busy on “ideas.” His ambition? “We hope to step out of things that are grotesque and slapstick and go further into beauty and charm.”
