Walt Disney's Fantastic Cartoon World

Walt Disney's Fantastic Cartoon World
newspaper, drawing political charicatures or comic strips. When nobody wanted to hire
him either likes an artist or likes an ambulance driver. His brother Roy, who worked at a
bank in the area, got a temporarily job for him at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio through a
bank colleague. At Pesmen-Rubin, Disney created ads for newspapers, magazines and
movie theaters. It was here that he met a cartoonist named Ubbe Iwerks. When their time
at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio expired and both of them weren't having any job. So they
decided to establish their own commercial company.
In January 1920, Walt and Iwerks formed a short-lived company called,
"Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists". However, following a rough start, Walt left
temporarily to earn money at Kansas City Film Ad Company, and was soon joined by
Iwerks who was not able to run the business alone. While working for the Kansas City
Film Ad Company, where he made commercials based on cutout animation, Walt took up
an interest in the field of animation and decided to become an animator. He was allowed
by the owner of the Ad Company, A.V. Cauger to borrow a camera from work, which he
could use to experiment with at home. After reading a book by Edwin G. Lutz, called
Animated Cartoons: How They Are Made, Their Origin and Development, and he found
cel animation to be much more promising than the cutout animation he was doing for
Cauger. Walt eventually decided to open his own animation business, and recruited a
fellow co-worker at the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Fred Harman as his first
employee.
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