10 Most Notorious Walt Disney Urban Legends
5. Spotting Naked Ladies
Walt Disney was a great animator with an incredible eye for detail, so it goes that a group of animators decided to play a joke on him. They inserted a quick shot of a naked woman into a single frame of a cartoon, to see if he would spot it. He did, and resultantly fired all of the employees involved.
There's a couple of conflicting responses to this. One is that it was simply a mistake in a frame of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, due to an ink and paint error, and that Walt was able to spot it and correct it. The other is that it did indeed happen, but Walt appreciated the test and no one was fired.
It seems to simply be one of those anecdotes that has been passed down and subsequently changed throughout generations, but whatever the case, it's clear that a) Walt had a very keen eye, and b) he didn't fire anyone for putting in a naked lady. Ironically, another - and again unfounded - rumour about Walt is that he had an extremely large pornography collection. No wonder he'd be so good at spotting nudes.