"No story in English literature has intrigued me more than Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. It fascinated me the first time I read it as a schoolboy and as soon as I possibly could after I started making animated cartoons, I acquired the film rights to it. People in his period had no time to waste on triviality, yet Carroll with his nonsense and fantasy furnished a balance between seriousness and enjoyment which everybody needed then and still needs today."
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As quoted in American Weekly (1946)
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Walter Elias "Walt" Disney (5 December 1901 – 15 December 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator. One of the most well-known motion picture producers in the world, Disney was also the artist responsible for works in a variety of other media, the creator of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and the founder of The Walt Disney Company, the world's largest entertainment and media organization, Walt Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Winnie the P
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