5 Things You Didn't Know About Walt Disney

4. He Was Diddled By Corporate Skulduggery

Long before Mickey came along, Walt€™s Golden Goose was a little fella called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit€™ a character he, his brother and a bunch of animators came up with which ending up bringing in $1500 a short in the 20€™s!! Not a bad little earner! However, as in all the best bedtime stories corporate stooges read to their issue at night, Oswald€™s rights were purloined from the Disney brothers by a savvy distributor in New York (ah the clichés) along with all of Disney€™s animators bar one. And is if things weren€™t shaping up nicely enough into a good ol€™dastardly folktale, that one animator who stayed was a doting faithful employee named €˜Iwerks€™ ... there, more tomorrow night. Go to sleep now Jnr.
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A. J. S. Scott was created as a homunculus by a mad English Alchemist who was trying to make rum from ink and seawater. He is still a fan of both and he has no comment on what happened to all the ‘No Exit’ signs in Islington Underground Station when he visited for Beltaine. You can send him missives by bribing the Right Raven with sour-strings, or: Instagram: @ajsscott Tumblr: andrew-scott-things.tumblr.com