Walt Disney's hand drawing of a single-frame picture of local law enforcement cleaning up Kanas City..
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Somewhere between the sooty exhalations of Armour Packing Plant and the ragtime clatter of streetcars, a 19-year-old Walt Disney pressed a single sheet of rice paper against a slanted pine desk and—without knowing—etched the Big Bang of an entertainment cosmos. The image looks harmless: two cops, one corpulent, one re...
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Edgar Jones
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" Somewhere between the sooty exhalations of Armour Packing Plant and the ragtime clatter of streetcars, a 19-year-old Walt Disney pressed a single sheet of rice paper against a slanted pine desk and—without knowing—etched the Big Bang of an entertainment cosmos. The image looks harmless: two cops, one corpulent, one reed-thin, angle push-brooms while a mongrel terrier pirouettes through sudsy runoff. Yet freeze the frame (if a solitary drawing can be called a frame) and the eye starts to halluci..."
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