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Steamboat Willie put Walt Disney on the map as an animator.

Tails, You Win Jul 26, 2022 SHARE ↓ by Morgan Housel @morganhousel Copy Link Steamboat Willie put Walt Disney on the map as an animator. Business success was another story. Disney’s first studio went bankrupt. Later cartoons were monstrously expensive to produce, and financed at onerous terms. By the mid-1930s Disney had produced more than 400 cartoons – most of them short, most of them liked, and most of them losing money. Disney and his studio were nearly broke. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs changed everything. The $8 million it earned in the first six months of 1938 was an order of m

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