Walt Before Mickey

This is the untold story of the ten critical and formative years of Walt Disney's life that preceded Steamboat Willie - soon to be a major motion picture. For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. [...]
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This is the untold story of the ten critical and formative years of Walt Disney's life that preceded Steamboat Willie - soon to be a major motion picture. For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. Most biographies begin in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was released, making its creator an icon for generations. But Steamboat Willie was neither Disney's first cartoon nor, perhaps more surprisingly, Mickey's first appearance. Prior to this, Walt Disney worked in a variety of venues and studios, refining what would become known as the Disney style. Walt Before Mickey is an enlightening and engaging volume that offers a critical biography of a man at a crucial crossroad in his life, and traces the challenges he faced and the choices he made that would eventually lead him to become a global figure. Walt Before Mickey has now been turned into a motion picture starring Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) and David Henrie (How I Met Your Mother and Studio Ghibli's Arrietty) with a November 2014 release date.