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"Industry pundits predicted that no one would sit still for a cartoon feature. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs proved otherwise and blazed the trail for the industry."

Nobody knew how to make serious money on short animations, animated features, or theme parks before Walt Disney. He did it all though.

He also wanted to try out the utopia thing[1], and it's maybe the 20th century's greatest missed opportunity.

If you haven't read Walt Disney's World[2], it's my favorite biography on the great man.

[1]https://youtu.be/sLCHg9mUBag [2]http://amzn.to/1lnptm0



Not sure I want to live in Walt Disney's utopia. He was great at his business, the original Jobsian, but dialed it up a bit too far.

www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1623/was-walt-disney-a-fascist




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