Key West Lou / MICKEY MOUSE and SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

Walt Disney created a different special joy for the world. Two of his earliest creations. Mickey Mouse and then the ground breaking achievements in animation and film with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

He did so much more. However, I wish to dwell on Mickey Mouse and Snow White. His first two major accomplishments.

Disney created another and prior cartoon character to Mickey. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. He did it with his then partners Ub Iwerks and Universal Studios. Oswald was an instantaneous success. However, the “business arrangement” with Universal was short lived. Disney and Iwerks were out on the street, so to speak. Oswald remained with Universal.

A year later, Disney began the Walt Disney Company. He and Iwerks sketched Mickey Mouse at the same time that films were toying with talkies. Disney debuted Mickey in Steamboat Willie in 1928 and Mickey over the next year became a household name. Steamboat Willie was not a talkie, however. It took one more year and eight Mickey films before Mickey “talked.” The first was The Karnival Kid. In it, Mickey also met Minnie Mouse for the first time.

Mickey played a hot dog vendor in The Karnival Kid. His first words were, “Hot dog! Hot dog!”

Mickey’s first voice was that of Carl Stalling. Disney soon took over Mickey’s vocalizing. He continued to be Mickey’s voice till 1946. Disney has always been Minnie’s voice.

Mickey Mouse’s popularity and success was great. Mickey Mouse proved lucrative for the Disney Company.

Then came Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. Disney loved it! Turned out to be his most implosive creation and financial achievement. Not without pain and anxiety. Even from his wife, Lillian.

Snow White was big bucks to create. Critics knocked the concept. The banks abandoned him. He could find no financial backers. His wife thought it was a loser. She was especially unhappy when Disney mortgaged their home to help pay for the film.

Snow White premiered December 21, 1937 and had its U.S. wide release February 4, 1938. It changed Disney’s life and Hollywood forever. An outstanding success! People loved it!

The film quickly grossed $8 million (equal to $165 million today), more than any film before it. Disney was on his way! Received a special Oscar. He used the money to build his new Disney Studios in Burbank, California, where the company still operates.

Disney had genius, talent and faith in himself. He pushed ahead against all odds, including his wife, to succeed. The American dream personified!

Donald Trump does not live in a real world. I used to think he made up the falsehoods he speaks. That he was aware they were not real. I have recently concluded he believes he speaks the truth. The falsehoods he speaks are reality to him.

Some of the things that are part of Trump’s imagining world. He tells us Americans can’t venture out to buy a loaf of bread without getting shot, mugged or raped. Immigrants in Springfield eat cats and dogs. World War III and economic collapse are around the corner. And kids go to school only to return at day’s end having undergone reassignment surgery.

His world a dark place. Our America a dark place.

What really bothers me is that almost half of U.S. voters believe the lies and misrepresentations Trump spews. Wake up America!

Trump said in an interview friday that he would not run for Presidnet again in 2028 if he lost.

Can he be believed?

Whatever. Keep in mind he may have a government financed position even if he loses. Jail.

An article of his interview I found amusing. Most people have a diet problem with which to deal.

Trump was asked about his well documented love of hamburgers. He admitted he liked “perhaps all the wrong food,” but does not plan on making any changes.

Trump said, “Oh don’t eat this, don’t eat that.” Then added, “They’ve gone, they have passed away long ago. And here I am.”

Trump consistently tells the American people that violent crime is on the increase. Claims violent crime has increased 43 percent. Got to scare the hell out of you unless you are aware it is Trump lying/misrepresenting again.

The FBI issued its report yesterday re crime in the U.S. Overall, it is down 3 percent. Murders are down 11.7 percent. The most ever.

I am an old man. I have lived through times when crime was high, Nowhere near it the past few years. My concern are mass killings. That is today’s problem and primarily has to do with gun availability.

I close with a touching story. One that did not just bring tears to my eyes. Made the tears role down my cheeks.

I came across a video on the internet yesterday of a 9 month old baby boy who had been born deaf. He had surgery. The video was of the first time he heard his mother and father talking to him, their voices. His eyes lit up, his smile beyond description, he laughed and grabbed onto his mother first, then his father.

God is good!

Enjoy your day!

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