Not even the Pied Piper knows more about mice than Walt Disney, whose Mickey Mouse was born on a coast-to-coast train. As you talk to him about Mickey, you begin to believe 1n leprechauns.
"You remember Tex, when Jinx interviewed me for your program in Mexico at the inauguration of Aleman as President, I told her then that I have always been the voice of Mickey Mouse on screen."
Jinx wouldn't believe it, until he demonstrated, and proved on the air, that he was the voice of Mickey.
There's something else people still won't believe – Mickey was drawn from a living model – a mouse, named Mortimer.
You're kidding, Walt. You mean you had a real mouse, the way another artist would use a girl as a model?
"Absolutely! You see, I used to work late at night in the studio, and the mice would rustle around among the loose papers, and sit just outside the circle of light around my chair and watch me like so many little brownies. I would trap them in a wastepaper basket and then try to train them.
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