So it’s a woman, indeed the only woman in the business, who gives young Walt his break. She commissions 12 Alice shorts at $1,500 per episode.
He grabs the attention of a cartoon distributor called Margaret Winkler. He buys a first-class ticket to Los Angeles, demonstrating the kind of unshakable belief that only exists in American Dream narratives. This is Disney’s first real failure, but does it stop the working-class boy from Chicago pursuing his dream of a cinematic art form that has yet to exist? Does it, hell.
By the time it’s finished, Laugh-O-Grams Inc has gone bankrupt. Walt Disney has quit his day job, started up an animation studio despite having only spent a few months at art school, and made a short called Alice in Cartoonland.
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