ABSTRACT
In 1909 there was Windsor McKay’s Gertie the Dinosaur, in 1913 there had been John Bray’s The Artist’s Dream, and in the early twenties there was Pat Sullivan’s Felix the Cat series, together with the Tom Webster cartoons, the Out of the Inkwell series, the Lancelot Speed cartoons, and many more. ‘The slide company used the old cut-out method of animation’, said Disney. It was while the artist was fumbling around in the realms of animated cartoons that Walt Disney met Mickey Mouse, then completely unknown and unnamed. The New York distributors were enthusiastic, and immediately offered to buy up the idea, tempting Walter with high prices. The imitators of the Disney technique had, by 1950, invaded the market with some success.
