In the years before Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney’s animation business started at a humble studio in Kansas City, Missouri. Known as Laugh-O-Gram, the very first Disney studio produced a series of short funnies and cartoon retellings of classic fairytales before going bankrupt in 1923. Broke but still determined to make it big, 22-year-old Walt sold his movie camera to make enough money for a one-way ticket to Hollywood, hopping on the train with an unfinished feel of Laugh-O-Gram’s final film, Alice’s Wonderland. In the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles,…
