12/29/2023 0 Comments Walt disney railroad story bookAt the time, much of the nation was out of work and families had little money to spare on pleasantries like toy trains. One such company was Joshua Lionel Cowen’s thirty-year-old Lionel Corporation - a toy manufacturing company founded in 1900. The Great Depression era would “derail” and “wreck” many companies world-wide, in an unrecoverable way during the 1930s. It may be that this short film inspired another licensed Mickey Mouse product, as seen in the following photos. As mentioned, a few of these black and white shorts featured trains like Mickey’s Choo Choo (1929). Mickey Mouse would go on to ultimately appear in seventy-seven black and white short films from 1928 to 1935, before appearing in color. Even in keeping a rigorous production schedule, trains would still run through Walt Disney’s mind and (as a result) throughout many of his short and feature-length film productions! Everything was truly going to be “O.K.” for Walt Disney! This new creation (based on a tiny mouse that he used to feed while working in Kansas City), would come to be called Mickey Mouse. During 1928, (while returning from a cross-country rail trip to confront the deceitful distributor of his films), Walt Disney would conceive something that would eventually give him the title of “world renowned cartoon creator”. as the train rolled into one station after another, I stood beside the train conductor on the car steps to enjoy the envious stares of youngsters waiting on the platform.”ĭuring 1928, Walt Disney had come a long way from a Santa Fe news butch when he created the Alice Comedies series - a cinematic blend of live action and animation. I did so and was hired for two months…I felt very important wearing a neat blue serge uniform with brass buttons, a peaked cap, and a shiny badge in my lapel. Walt recalled, “My brother Roy who had been employed by the Fred Harvey system as a news butcher on the Santa Fe trains, selling magazines, peanuts, apples, soft drinks, cigars, and so on, suggested that I apply for a similar job. About eight years after a painful move from his beloved boyhood town of Marceline, Walt would experience one of many “silver-linings”.
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