5 Things You Didn't Know About Walt Disney
5. He Did The Same Job As Hemmingway
In 1917, genocide in Europe now settled in quite nicely, Walt Disney strapped on his idealistic boots and enlisted in the army in order to go and give the Hun what for. Being 16, though, the nice chaps in the army sent him packing with his tale between his legs and said theyd happily send him to his death when hes got a little more plumage on it.
Still eager to do his bit though, he enlisted in the Red Cross and was sent over to France to drive ambulances. A curious idea shared by lion-charging Wunderbloke Ernest Hemmingway. Two creative names you wouldnt normally put together but they actually shared some common characteristics that werent ambulance related either. They were both paradigms of idealism (as well see later on), both practised their art from a very early age (Disney having churned out cartoons for his school newspaper pre-Dropout) and they were both partial to a tipple. Hemmingway famously sloshed most of the livelong day and Disney kept his office stacked with his own library of bibulous delight. Rumours abound concerning Disneys particular attitude towards the bottle but, who knows, his famous banning of alcohol in the studio could well have been for his own good rather than a Machiavellian scheme to keep everyone else sober! Either that or he really was just a mean olpickled bar-steward!