Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney - Hardcover

Russell Merritt; J. B. Kaufman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801849071 ISBN 13: 9780801849077

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

During the Roaring Twenties--from 1921 through 1928--Walt Disney and his friends made more than ninety silent cartoons, turning them out as often as one or two per month. Years before Mickey Mouse, the young entrepreneur recruited and nurtured an extraordinary array of talented people. Drawing on interviews with Disney's coworkers, Disney's business papers, promotional materials, scripts, drawings, and correspondence, the richly illustrated Walt in Wonderland reconstructs Disney's silent film career and places his early films in critical perspective.

About this title

Book Description:

Walt before Mickey

About the Author:

Russell Merritt is a visiting professor of film history at the University of California-Berkeley. He has published on D. W. Griffith, silent film, animation, and fairy tales. He has also served as senior consultant for the 1993 Kevin Brownlow and David Gill Emmy-nominated program, D. W. Griffith: Father of Film. J. B. Kaufman is an independent film historian living in Wichita, Kansas, who has published extensively on Disney animation and silent film history.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0801849071
• ISBN 13: 9780801849077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176