About Walt Disney

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    The following is from Dave Smith, Archives Director of Walt Disney Archives in Burbank, California. The web site of the artist is www.Disney.com.

    During a 43-year Hollywood career, which spanned the development of the motion picture medium as a modern American art, Walter Elias Disney, a modern Aesop, established himself and his product as a genuine part of Americana. David Low, the late British political cartoonist, called Disney "the most significant figure in graphic arts since Leonardo."

    A pioneer and innovator, and the possessor of one of the most fertile imaginations the world has ever known, Walt Disney, along with members of his highly skillful staff, received more than 950 honors and citations from every ...

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