Walt Disney
Author: Bob Thomas, Walt's People: Volume 10 - Talking Disney with the Artists who Knew Him, Volume 10, 1965-05-25, Chapter 4,pp. 24-25,EN
This interview was conducted by Bob Thomas while working on his biography of Harry Cohn, King Cohn (G.P. Putmam’s Sons, 1967).
It was unearthed by Todd James Pierce.
When I first made Mickey Mouse, I showed it to all the major studios, trying to get one of them to release it. Nobody was interested. I showed it to a man at Columbia—not Harry Cohn—and he said he liked it but wasn’t going to buy it. “This is what I’m looking for—an identifiable product,” he said, and held up a package of Life Savers. “But if you will only release my cartoons, they will become an identifiable product,” I said. “Not interested,” he told me.
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- 1 - A History of Bob Thomas’ Biography of Walt Disney (Jim Korkis)
- 2 - Bob Thomas (Didier Ghez)
- 3 - Bob Thomas (Paul F. Anderson)
- 4 - Walt Disney
- 5 - Walt Pfeiffer (Bob Thomas)
- 6 - Lillian Disney (Bob Thomas)
- 7 - Edna Disney (Bob Thomas)
- 8 - Ub Iwerks (Bob Thomas)
- 9 - Wilfred Jackson (Bob Thomas)
- 10 - Bill Cottrell (Bob Thomas)
- 11 - Herb Ryman (Bob Thomas)
- 12 - Walt’s secretaries (Jim Korkis)
- 13 - Dolores Voght Scott (Bob Thomas)
- 14 - Ham Luske (Bob Thomas)
- 15 - Woolie Reitherman (Bob Thomas)
- 16 - John Lounsbery (Bob Thomas)
- 17 - Ward Kimball (Bob Thomas)
- 18 - Frank Thomas (Bob Thomas)
- 19 - Milt Kahl (Bob Thomas)
- 20 - Hazel George (Bob Thomas)
- 21 - Marc Davis (Bob Thomas)
- 22 - Dick Huemer (Bob Thomas)
- 23 - Ollie Johnston (Bob Thomas)
- 24 - Ken Anderson (Bob Thomas)
- 25 - George Bruns (Bob Thomas)
- 26 - Larry Clemmons (Bob Thomas)
- 27 - Bill Anderson (Bob Thomas)
- 28 - Robert Stevenson (Bob Thomas)
- 29 - Bill Walsh (Bob Thomas)
- 30 - Roy E. Disney (Bob Thomas)
- 31 - Winston Hibler (Bob Thomas)
- 32 - James Algar (Bob Thomas)
- 33 - John Hench (Bob Thomas)
- 34 - Harper Goff (Bob Thomas)
- 35 - Dick Irvine (Bob Thomas)
- 36 - Card Walker (Bob Thomas)
- 37 - Donn Tatum (Bob Thomas)
- 38 - Wathel Rogers (Bob Thomas)
- 39 - Roger Broggie (Bob Thomas)
- 40 - Marvin Davis (Bob Thomas)
- 41 - Joe Potter (Bob Thomas)
- 42 - Robert Foster (Bob Thomas)
- 43 - Joe Fowler (Bob Thomas)
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