A freelance cartoonist myself......since around the mid-1970s.....I think I first learned about Ub Iwerks being the actual creator of Mickey Mouse in about 1982. Something my best friend, who had his own successful little graphics business, told me.
I just unsubbed. He was an anti semite..actually alot worse than just some anti semite. He was connected/friends with some of the most evil men in history including Hitler. I'm so tired of mainstream liberal youtube channels trying to rewrite history.
The one they all claim is racist was actually an anti-German propaganda piece from WWII. The people claiming it's racist are literally just listening to someone else lying and buying it hook, line, and sinker because they're incredibly stupid.
Whatever "falling out" Iwerks and Disney had was temporary and Iwerks returned and very happily worked for Disney for many years afterwards. He didn't accuse Disney of taking the credit for his work either. Walt Disney CREATED and DESIGNED Mickey Mouse, but Disney himself wasn't as good of an animator as Iwerks, so Disney had Iwerks do the majority of the animation. This in no way constitutes screwing over Iwerks or taking the undeservedly taking the credit. This issue is almost always misrepresented. Iwerks did leave to try to create his own studio, but it didn't last long, the company lost investors and eventually folded. In 1940, Iwerks went back to Disney and worked on many of their biggest films. Iwerks eventually ended his career with Disney in 1971. Apparently he liked working for Disney enough to do it for about 3 more decades (1940-1971)
I was scrolling down to make this very comment. Well said. Iwerks is a animation pioneer, going on to create many of the innovations for Disney that would make their cartoons stand out over all the rest. Disney and Iwerks were partners in the early days, collaborating on the Alice and the Oswald shorts. Disney was the idea man, the director and the business man. Iwerks was the animator. I don't think anyone knows who actually first drew Mickey, but I would not at all be surprised to find that it was Iwerks. I do not think the two men actually had a falling out. I think Iwerks just went off to create his own studio. When that failed Disney welcomed him back and gave him a very important and senior position. The remained together as friends until their death.
@@feloniousmonk1973 I know that is the story, but like many stories it may or may not be true. It could easily partially true, or it could be a story created by the marketing department. Please do not misunderstand me, I am a Disney fan, I believe he was a good man. I believe he was a businessman first and like all good businessmen he could be ruthless. But WD is a bit of a hero to me, and I will argue in his support all day. But i also know Iwerks was the better artist and creator. Without Iwerks there would be no Disney Studios.
It was the first to come out to the public... He actually said that in the video, plane crazy was released after steamboat Willie, even though it was made earlier
I never believed the anti-Semitism rumour. Though I never did any in-depth research, for all the references to his anti-Semitism, I never once heard anyone recount anything he ever did or anything he ever said that would support the lie. He grew up in a time when certain prejudices were assumed as fact, which nowadays would be considered unacceptable. But he was no more anti-Semitic than the average Gentile fighting the Nazis in WWII.
your disbelief in his antisemtism is ridiculous just because a person is good at there lives work and touched the lives of many through there work should never be an implication they were a good human being. Thats like saying Miles Davis was an excellent trumpeter there for he was a good human being that is bull shit he was a horrible man who happened to be an amazing musician you have to consider a celebrity can be worthy in the work they are famous for and still be a scum bag in there personal life. The same I said for Miles Davis can also apply to Walt Disney.
@@aelrickofoid6733 ever heard of "innocent until proven guilty" or "burden of proof"? i have yet to see actual evidence that Walt Disney was antisemitic. so far, i've only seen people repeat this assumption as if it were a fact and the same people get irrationally mad, if you ask skeptical questions. it's as if people WANT him to be a bigot, so they'll have an excuse to tear down his legacy.
@@aelrickofoid6733 your belief in antisemitic implication is moronic due to his record with his employees. He had Jewish employees that he knew personally and did good work. Don't be an ass
Someone needs to send this video to Seth MacFarlane. He has cemented Walt's image as an anti-Semite even though MacFarlane, and all animators, owe Walt their careers. 😡
@Count dooku so where is you proof Seth is a genius and Walt a lunatic? You haven’t got any have you. Did Seth come up with ideas for groundbreaking animation? Did Seth create some of the greatest animated characters in cinematic history? Did Seth create theme parks? No he didn’t.
@Count dooku haha a conspiracy theorist that thinks Walt put willies in cartoons made years after he died. And the topless women in the Rescuers was his doing to, eleven years after he died? You theorists make me laugh. You sit and read your Marc Eliot Bible, a book that has been totally discredited for the lies in it. That phallic symbol only appeared on a poster not in the film. And there has never been any evidence that he indoctrinated children in fact the opposite is true, he was a wonderful husband and father. But I suppose you believe the MKUltra bull. Well there is no mention in the book The Devils Chessboard of his involvement and that Aussie woman was a liar. The whole premise of MKULTRA was brainwashing and the victim would never remember what went on or what they did. And I suppose you alsobelieve his head is frozen.
@Count dooku well wouldn’t your theory get em Young mean Seth is guilty as well. And all creators are lunatics? But you still haven’t answered in what way Seth is such a genius
I worked at Disney Animation starting in 1974 and personally knew several Jewish people who had worked there from the 1940s on-- not one of them ever said he was anti-Semitic.
Marty Sklar and other high up employees who were not only openly Jewish but very dedicated to their faith have all agreed that Walt never treated them differently at all for their religion, and furthermore was known to send gifts for occasions like Hanukkah. Doesn’t sound like something anti-Semite would do at all
@@209Chuy funny how this OP's statement reflects the actual interviews with Jewish employees that you can watch with your own eyes, where they say he wasn't. And YOU are the one with the "trust me bro" sources. Nice try clown.
@@bosoxguy77 😡Get your head outta the gutter! Walt was NO anti-Semitic! The Sherman Brothers were Jewish immigrants, and they were Walt's close friends. They were his top songwriters.
I don’t like the negative myths that surround Walt Disney. A lot of people give him so much shit over these, and think they sound profound. Similar to all of the internet “experts” who parody his reputation when it’s really the company today is what they are trying to make fun of. Also, who thought Walt did all the work by himself? He stated that he was never an artist, so he always respected the animators that made his vision come true
@@magicfeliuri2681 romancing an Idea of who he was doesn’t make the truth of who he was different. But apologists like to bash those who simply tell the truth. It’s really quiet sad misguided and delusional
@@jldgriffin you use TH-cam videos to get your "facts"? OMG you are really, really, super stupid. Nobody cares what you think loony. Nobody. Go back to watching conspiracy theory vids bc it makes you think you're actually bright.
Another huge myth these days is that Walt said "If we can dream it, we can do it!" or "if you can dream it, you can do it!". Walt never said this at all to anyone's knowledge. The quote was coined by ad agency copywriter Sheralyn Silverstein , working on an ad for General Electric. No, not even Tom Fitzgerald coined it. The phrase was later brought to EPCOT Center's Horizons.
remember when the internet was a wild west of "Disney is evil" sites? I tried to ignore that as much as I could. and Sometimes When the "Frozen" rumor came up, I thought nothing of it as I grew up. whatever I am an animator and that man and Winsor Mcay deserve the respect their legacies provide.
I knew that Ub Iwerks was the creator of Mickey Mouse, but it was said that Iwerks claimed it wasn't the creation of the character but what you did with it that was important. Disney also helped Iwerks's career by getting him to get out of Kansas City to California which definitely jump-started his career as an animator. It should also be remembered that during WWII that Disney was one of the most active in propagandists during the war. He even produced a film called Victory Thru Air Power which put forth the concept of Strategic Bombing; not exactly something that benefited the Nazis.
This is a disneyland fact but the flags on mainstreet is wrongly said that they put 48 stars on the flag so they do not have to pull the flags down due to federal law. The law though says that any previous or similar US flags must be put down every night. The real reason is that mainstreet is based in the late 1890s or early 1900s when the US had 48 stars. So why doesn't disneyland put those flags down? Because it would cost a lot of money and the govt doesnt enforce the law. Why did this false fact come around? Because disney doesn't want to piss of military personal or vets who aren't bothered enough to look up the law. Honestly I'm a USMC vet and I really don't care if any private business doesn't put down the flag every night but it's pretty nice that disney does the ceremony everyday.
Fun fact: In the clips of Mickey meeting those three kids, that's actually none other than Bret Iwan, current Mickey voice actor, in the full costume and acting the part.
I liked Uncle Walt. As for Meryl Streep well, those who point fingers and call others racist are usually the biggest ones their own selves. Yes anything for media attention when the career makes a person a "has been" or "never was". Tragic.
Some years ago, I happened across an unauthorized biography that alleged Disney was not born in 1901 - but 1891. In it, his birth mother was said to have been of Mexican/Spanish descent and Walt was the product of a tryst his father had had with this woman while working as a carpenter on the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Apparently, Disney - during his lifetime - was never able to furnish a birth certificate verifying his date of birth - and to some, he apparently looked darker skinned enough than his other Disney siblings. Outside of this book, I've not been able to find any other independent source to back up these findings, so I dunno. I suppose it's the peculiarities of the man, his art and his organization that spawn such speculative details ... 🤔
Stupid people always have stupid comments to make. You can't make sense out of nonsense. RIP Mr. Disney. Thanks for all the great films and cartoons that I grew up with.
Definition of fact by Merriam Webster dictionary: 1a: something that has actual existence space exploration is now a fact b: an actual occurrence prove the fact of damage 2: a piece of information presented as having objective reality These are the hard facts of the case. There ARE NO FALSE FACTS. There are false starements or false claims, but FACTS are TRUE by definiton.
Yes, particularly since his inventions were patented in his own name. He's the one who came up with the moving glass scenery plates that gave Disney's animated feature films such amazing depth and realistic movement through the scenery. Iwerks also invented a method of restoring celluloid film and eliminated scratches that was universally used by the film industry. I never heard that they'd had a falling out, but it doesn't surprise me, since Disney was such an SOB in real life. Stay safe.
@@oldenweery7510 As his career shows, he needed Disney more than Disney needed him. He needed Disney's direction and vision. Iwerks was a genius, don't get me wrong and he deserves credit. Many things i've read or heard about the disney story over the years has credited him for what he's done, at least as far as Mickey mouse was concerned, he was hired by Disney and asked to develop the character. They had a falling out but He eventually went back to disney later and worked for the company again, his son is even a Disney legend. So I'm assuming they made up. Anyway, not sure where your info about disney being an SOB came from. Aside from fabricated stories like the video shows, I've heard literally nothing but good things about the man.
@@jakehess27 I've been hearing and reading stories about him for decades, complete with film footage of him referring to his workers as Communists because they wanted more security in their jobs and wanted to organize for collective bargaining---under Federal laws. Of course, the Great Red Scares had the country up in arms (look at the outrageous behavior of our own Senator McCarthy and his ilk). He managed to quash chances for Adriana Caselotti of ever having a career after she voiced Snow White and several of the child actors had to put in a lot of time at the original Disneyland. He was a great talent, but like a lot of men, had an equally large ego.
@Julie Raffaldt Walt Disney was named after Walter Parr. But was given his Elias as his Middle name. Walt Disney's mother Flora was pregnant with Walt at the same time as William parr's wife was pregnant and the men said that if they both had boys they would name their children after each other so the Disneys named their son Walter Elias Disney.
I hold enduring gratitude to Wait Disney for his association with Dr. Wernher von Braun ... which provided the initial push needed to get the ball rolling toward America's successful landings of men on the moon. When I was a boy I watched his three part Disneyland series about outer space first run. It was AWESOME!
Every one expects Walt disney to be a perfect man. And he kinda is. Thats why so many people like the guy from this channel tries to find something about him and make it sound bad
he Isn't, he was a Fervently racist man who had ties with the nazis and america first party. the cartoon, big bad wolf, had a cancelled character which was a anti-semetic trope.
3:31 Walter Elias Disney was descended from a French religious family (Jesuits? Hugenots?). Their original name _d' Isîgny_ . This connection may have misled historians to anti-Semitism. 8:32 Don't forget Will Eisner (and later Stan Lee's collaborator Jack Kirby)! 9:43 His nephew Roy Disney allegedly also was interested in doing that before he died.
The way I remembered reading it, was that, Walt' wife actually saw the picture of Mickey Mouse that somebody had drawn and SHE was the one who pushed both Disney and Ira to pursue and make Mickey the star. Because she felt and thought, correctly, that mouse would be thought of as more "cute and cuddly" to most people. I don't have a source for that, but I DO remember reading that many years ago, though and that sounds about right to me, at least. :)
I went there in1966 when I was 9 years old, it was so crowded then. I'm 63 now will never go back, the prices are rediclish. Taking a family of 4 you can pay your house payment. Go camping instead, love nature
Different strokes for different folks Barbara... ive been 50 + times in my life and will continue to go, it’s my go to happy place... not everyone likes the same stuff
My parents took me to Disneyworld in Florida. I hated it because I don't like Disney characters. I loved Looney Tunes and Six Flags over Georgia was my happy place. I also got the chance to take my son to Universal Studios for Thanksgiving week and we had a blast!! He doesn't like Disney and is a Nickelodeon kid🤣 You're correct about the prices being astronomical. We will be paying just to breathe at the parks next😂🤣
@@poog5293 The cartoons that they played while in line had me in tears. My dad's company had season passes for $40 and one day entry tix for $18. Disney was too "sugary and straight laced" for me.
@@Taydar All you have to do to know is look up firsthand accounts and primary sources. That will tell you exactly who Walt was, and he was not at all concerned with race or politics lol.
Oh how much the cartooning has come a far away. I didn't know much of Walt Disney in Finland but I loved Donald Duck & had the cartoon magazine coming weekly at our childhood home very long time ago. You can buy Donald Duck comic books about every store & kiosks over there and I was so sadden when I got to USA and here they are nowhere to be found. The old cartoons were by far the best ever 💗
The Donald Duck comic books have their following in the U.S.; they can be found in comic book specialty shops. The best-known artist and writer of those books was Carl Barks (1901-2000), who is also credited as having created Scrooge McDuck. It's interesting that reading those books with adult eyes I find them intriguing and not at all embarrassing kid stuff. A head concussion that turned Donald into a super-genius was even recorded (well, one panel anyway) in Morrison and Boyd's college textbook on organic chemistry.
@@wdd3141 Ahaa so that's where they are hiding. I've found some one time in a yard sale. I believe you're right About Carl Barks. I have a drawer full of my collection I brought from Finland and I love to read them as adult. I did not know about Donald & collage thing heh hee
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you... I'm just a little curious/concerned as to why there was poop in your shorts for Snopes to eat in the first place. Seems like an story about that somewhere... but please don't elaborate on it. I'll just wait for the movie to come out.
@@erichart7377 they left out the parts about walts rampant satanism, so it was mypolite way of saying your phony documentary is less than the poop in my undershorts which s nopes is also welcome to.
One I wish wasn't true but sadly it is that he was a smoker, which he had to hide to keep hims and his studio imagine family friends. Even through in Saving Mr. Banks you do see the aftermath of a smoking session, through you don't actually see him smoking.
What you should keep in mind is smoking was a societal norm then before considering it bad consider the time period Walt Disney was in was one were everybody smoked and until the link to lung cancer was discovered by doctors they had no idea how bad it was for people.
He was never in the Navy. He was once in the Red Cross, as a teenager, at the end of WWI. At one point, he was court marshalled because he and another guy were given an errand that took them to some outpost or something, and the guy told Walt to wait there and he'd be back after completing the mission, I guess he was older or more superior idk. But anyway this guy then went on a 3 day bender leaving Walt at this post. After 2 days, Walt finally abandoned his post and walked into town where he got a room and slept for an entire day. He was court marshalled for leaving his post. But once he told them what had happened, they dropped the charges. That is where the dishonorable discharge myth actually comes from. If you want, you can look it up literally... anywhere. Google is free.
FAST AND FURIOUS by Chuck Jones ( Very First Roadrunner and Coyote ) when at Warner's and THE PINK FINK ( First Pink Panther Cartoon ) by Friz Freleng after his partnership with David DePatie blossomed are fairly memorable individual cartoon episodes as well. Pink Panther was the very final Golden Age made for movie theater screen's Cartoon Character to be.
As soon as you said snopes on the first one you lost me. When you use a notoriously corrupt and controlled avenue and dont know it. Everything you say is inherently nullified. You lose.
No, but supposedly he did have a drink every night either at home with his wife or at whatever place he hung out with his nerd train lover pals. Lol I mean that in the most complimentary way.
His head IS NOT frozen and stored inside Cinderella castle.........No he spent his last few years with top level scientists figuring out how to transfer his consciousness on to a computer punch card and from his death until 2003 it was updated and transferred to newer media storage and then in 2003 it was implanted into the drunk ass pirate of the Caribbean animatronic
This guy has some of his facts wrong as well. The narrative about Waldo and Mickey is incorrect. Waldo wasn't "taken by a former business partner". He was specifically designed FOR Universal BY Walt Disney. It was a contractual agreement; there was no "taking" involved. But Walt liked that character and wanted to develop a similar character that Disney actually owned.
According to Snopes? You are kidding, right? I don't think the two liberal Canadians (Snope) know ANYTHING about Disney. It makes your story a lot less credible.
When Disney employees tried to unionize he referred to them as Communists. And used this as an excuse for the Feds to investigate them during the Black Listing of Hollywood.
Its because they were Commies. Union leader Herbert Sorrell was a communist Labour leader and along with Art Babbit organised the strike. Walt actually offered to allow the Unions in if put to a vote. Sorrell refused and said he would turn Disney studios to dust. It wasn't an excuse why Walt outed the Commies, he had good reason.
BlueTrainer12 at BEST they both created him together, but my understanding is that Disney created him and had Iwerks do the animation because he was better at it
@@SG-BLAST While it's true that Ub Iwerks did, in fact, play a role in co-creating Mickey Mouse, it was Walt Disney who did come up with Mickey's personality as well as his overall character. I believe he did draw some sketches of Mickey but they did not look good and asked his friend Ub to redraw them. Ub created the friendlier Mickey design we all know and love today and animated a lot of the earlier Mickey cartoons. Both Walt and Ub created Mickey, so let's stop buying into this revisionist history.
Did you believe any of these things about Disney?
I remember the frozen in ice story from when I was a.kid.
A freelance cartoonist myself......since around the mid-1970s.....I think I first learned about Ub Iwerks being the actual creator of Mickey Mouse in about 1982. Something my best friend, who had his own successful little graphics business, told me.
I just unsubbed. He was an anti semite..actually alot worse than just some anti semite. He was connected/friends with some of the most evil men in history including Hitler. I'm so tired of mainstream liberal youtube channels trying to rewrite history.
Grunge Wait Disney looks like Caucasian Mexican
No.
I never believed the rumor that Walt Disney was a Nazi sympathizer because of the fact he made multiple anti-Nazi cartoons during WWII
The one they all claim is racist was actually an anti-German propaganda piece from WWII. The people claiming it's racist are literally just listening to someone else lying and buying it hook, line, and sinker because they're incredibly stupid.
obviously.
Whatever "falling out" Iwerks and Disney had was temporary and Iwerks returned and very happily worked for Disney for many years afterwards. He didn't accuse Disney of taking the credit for his work either. Walt Disney CREATED and DESIGNED Mickey Mouse, but Disney himself wasn't as good of an animator as Iwerks, so Disney had Iwerks do the majority of the animation. This in no way constitutes screwing over Iwerks or taking the undeservedly taking the credit. This issue is almost always misrepresented. Iwerks did leave to try to create his own studio, but it didn't last long, the company lost investors and eventually folded. In 1940, Iwerks went back to Disney and worked on many of their biggest films. Iwerks eventually ended his career with Disney in 1971. Apparently he liked working for Disney enough to do it for about 3 more decades (1940-1971)
THANK YOUUUUU TELL THEM THAT
And Iwerks's later generations went on to work for Disney..To this day....
I was scrolling down to make this very comment. Well said. Iwerks is a animation pioneer, going on to create many of the innovations for Disney that would make their cartoons stand out over all the rest. Disney and Iwerks were partners in the early days, collaborating on the Alice and the Oswald shorts. Disney was the idea man, the director and the business man. Iwerks was the animator. I don't think anyone knows who actually first drew Mickey, but I would not at all be surprised to find that it was Iwerks.
I do not think the two men actually had a falling out. I think Iwerks just went off to create his own studio. When that failed Disney welcomed him back and gave him a very important and senior position. The remained together as friends until their death.
Edward Chase Disney insists he drew the first Mickey while in a train trip from the east coast to California. But yes, you’re correct about the rest.
@@feloniousmonk1973 I know that is the story, but like many stories it may or may not be true. It could easily partially true, or it could be a story created by the marketing department. Please do not misunderstand me, I am a Disney fan, I believe he was a good man. I believe he was a businessman first and like all good businessmen he could be ruthless. But WD is a bit of a hero to me, and I will argue in his support all day.
But i also know Iwerks was the better artist and creator. Without Iwerks there would be no Disney Studios.
They never said Steamboat Willie was the fist Disney cartoon. It's well known that it was the first cartoon to feature synchronized sound.
Steamboat Willie is known as Mickey's debut. Which is false, because his debut was in Plane Crazy.m
It was the first to come out to the public... He actually said that in the video, plane crazy was released after steamboat Willie, even though it was made earlier
@@NoisqueVoaProduction Galloping Gaucho was the second Mickey cartoon. Steamboat Willie was the third.
@@NikkivanZoom plane crazy…was certainly *something*
Fist Disney cartoon
I never believed the anti-Semitism rumour. Though I never did any in-depth research, for all the references to his anti-Semitism, I never once heard anyone recount anything he ever did or anything he ever said that would support the lie. He grew up in a time when certain prejudices were assumed as fact, which nowadays would be considered unacceptable. But he was no more anti-Semitic than the average Gentile fighting the Nazis in WWII.
your disbelief in his antisemtism is ridiculous just because a person is good at there lives work and touched the lives of many through there work should never be an implication they were a good human being. Thats like saying Miles Davis was an excellent trumpeter there for he was a good human being that is bull shit he was a horrible man who happened to be an amazing musician you have to consider a celebrity can be worthy in the work they are famous for and still be a scum bag in there personal life. The same I said for Miles Davis can also apply to Walt Disney.
@@aelrickofoid6733
ever heard of "innocent until proven guilty" or "burden of proof"?
i have yet to see actual evidence that Walt Disney was antisemitic. so far, i've only seen people repeat this assumption as if it were a fact and the same people get irrationally mad, if you ask skeptical questions.
it's as if people WANT him to be a bigot, so they'll have an excuse to tear down his legacy.
@@aelrickofoid6733 your belief in antisemitic implication is moronic due to his record with his employees. He had Jewish employees that he knew personally and did good work. Don't be an ass
The reason the anti-semitism rumor spread was because Walt was feuding with his union.
@@aelrickofoid6733 disagrees
Walt Disney is human….he made mistakes but so is anyone, but I don’t know what to believe in. But I’m still going look up to him.
Me, too. He's been my idol since I was a little girl.
Someone needs to send this video to Seth MacFarlane. He has cemented Walt's image as an anti-Semite even though MacFarlane, and all animators, owe Walt their careers. 😡
Amen. 😞
@Count dooku come on then give us you proof. I will debunk any of them
@Count dooku so where is you proof Seth is a genius and Walt a lunatic? You haven’t got any have you. Did Seth come up with ideas for groundbreaking animation? Did Seth create some of the greatest animated characters in cinematic history? Did Seth create theme parks? No he didn’t.
@Count dooku haha a conspiracy theorist that thinks Walt put willies in cartoons made years after he died. And the topless women in the Rescuers was his doing to, eleven years after he died? You theorists make me laugh. You sit and read your Marc Eliot Bible, a book that has been totally discredited for the lies in it. That phallic symbol only appeared on a poster not in the film. And there has never been any evidence that he indoctrinated children in fact the opposite is true, he was a wonderful husband and father. But I suppose you believe the MKUltra bull. Well there is no mention in the book The Devils Chessboard of his involvement and that Aussie woman was a liar. The whole premise of MKULTRA was brainwashing and the victim would never remember what went on or what they did. And I suppose you alsobelieve his head is frozen.
@Count dooku well wouldn’t your theory get em Young mean Seth is guilty as well. And all creators are lunatics? But you still haven’t answered in what way Seth is such a genius
"reportedly" doesn't always mean true fact lol.
I worked at Disney Animation starting in 1974 and personally knew several Jewish people who had worked there from the 1940s on-- not one of them ever said he was anti-Semitic.
Marty Sklar and other high up employees who were not only openly Jewish but very dedicated to their faith have all agreed that Walt never treated them differently at all for their religion, and furthermore was known to send gifts for occasions like Hanukkah. Doesn’t sound like something anti-Semite would do at all
He also got an award from a synagogue or Jewish organization, something like that, for being an upstanding gentile so there’s that too.
Source trust me bro
@@209Chuy funny how this OP's statement reflects the actual interviews with Jewish employees that you can watch with your own eyes, where they say he wasn't. And YOU are the one with the "trust me bro" sources. Nice try clown.
A lot of people like to make false rumours about people and things that are super successful.
It makes me so sad that they make awful theories about Walt that aren’t true. He just wanted to bring happiness to the world.
He was also and antisemite
@@bosoxguy77 Go do a 5 second fact check Bozo.
@@bosoxguy77 let me guess, you think Family Guy is a news show. Lol. He was absolutely not in any way. You are a cIown.
@@bosoxguy77 😡Get your head outta the gutter! Walt was NO anti-Semitic! The Sherman Brothers were Jewish immigrants, and they were Walt's close friends. They were his top songwriters.
I don’t like the negative myths that surround Walt Disney. A lot of people give him so much shit over these, and think they sound profound. Similar to all of the internet “experts” who parody his reputation when it’s really the company today is what they are trying to make fun of. Also, who thought Walt did all the work by himself? He stated that he was never an artist, so he always respected the animators that made his vision come true
You should find the video entitled Walt Disney racism revealed. It’s quite clear the type of coward he was
@@jldgriffin jrek
@@magicfeliuri2681 romancing an Idea of who he was doesn’t make the truth of who he was different. But apologists like to bash those who simply tell the truth. It’s really quiet sad misguided and delusional
@@jldgriffin you use TH-cam videos to get your "facts"? OMG you are really, really, super stupid. Nobody cares what you think loony. Nobody. Go back to watching conspiracy theory vids bc it makes you think you're actually bright.
@@jldgriffin you just stated that you got your "facts" from a random conspiracy theory TH-cam video. I think we can all ignore you now.
Another huge myth these days is that Walt said "If we can dream it, we can do it!" or "if you can dream it, you can do it!". Walt never said this at all to anyone's knowledge. The quote was coined by ad agency copywriter Sheralyn Silverstein , working on an ad for General Electric. No, not even Tom Fitzgerald coined it. The phrase was later brought to EPCOT Center's Horizons.
The mother being taken away theme was strong in Dumbo.
Yup 👍🏻
@@juliegill4679 In fact, the theory of where he was adopted from was never mentioned. We know he was adopted but he was born in Spain.
So were the crows
That still makes me weep thinking of it now
remember when the internet was a wild west of "Disney is evil" sites? I tried to ignore that as much as I could. and Sometimes When the "Frozen" rumor came up, I thought nothing of it as I grew up. whatever I am an animator and that man and Winsor Mcay deserve the respect their legacies provide.
I knew that Ub Iwerks was the creator of Mickey Mouse, but it was said that Iwerks claimed it wasn't the creation of the character but what you did with it that was important. Disney also helped Iwerks's career by getting him to get out of Kansas City to California which definitely jump-started his career as an animator. It should also be remembered that during WWII that Disney was one of the most active in propagandists during the war. He even produced a film called Victory Thru Air Power which put forth the concept of Strategic Bombing; not exactly something that benefited the Nazis.
schizoidboy Walt Disney-the person-created Mickey Mouse but he had Iwerks do most of the animation because he was better at it. That’s all.
So he’s raciest and a thief what else is new. Bob Kane much
@@jldgriffin tell us more about how you can't tell fact from tabloid BS.
@@jldgriffin 🙄He was NOT racist, nor a thief!
This is a disneyland fact but the flags on mainstreet is wrongly said that they put 48 stars on the flag so they do not have to pull the flags down due to federal law. The law though says that any previous or similar US flags must be put down every night. The real reason is that mainstreet is based in the late 1890s or early 1900s when the US had 48 stars. So why doesn't disneyland put those flags down? Because it would cost a lot of money and the govt doesnt enforce the law. Why did this false fact come around? Because disney doesn't want to piss of military personal or vets who aren't bothered enough to look up the law. Honestly I'm a USMC vet and I really don't care if any private business doesn't put down the flag every night but it's pretty nice that disney does the ceremony everyday.
Going to Disneyland in the 1950s, possibly before air conditioning, in a suit.
Fun fact: In the clips of Mickey meeting those three kids, that's actually none other than Bret Iwan, current Mickey voice actor, in the full costume and acting the part.
I liked Uncle Walt. As for Meryl Streep well, those who point fingers and call others racist are usually the biggest ones their own selves. Yes anything for media attention when the career makes a person a "has been" or "never was". Tragic.
Good video. Walt Disney truly made our childhood a magic world. His classics are unforgettable and his characters are awesome.
I just realized his name was actually Walter Disney
The feeling of discovering Walt Disney's real name is like finding out your dad isn't actually named dad.
Walter Elias Disney
@@RealMasterpieces like when his daughter, Diane, found out who her father was and asked him for his autograph, according to her biography on him.
It's sad so many myths about people from the past have been spread as facts.
Some years ago, I happened across an unauthorized biography that alleged Disney was not born in 1901 - but 1891. In it, his birth mother was said to have been of Mexican/Spanish descent and Walt was the product of a tryst his father had had with this woman while working as a carpenter on the 1893 Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Apparently, Disney - during his lifetime - was never able to furnish a birth certificate verifying his date of birth - and to some, he apparently looked darker skinned enough than his other Disney siblings. Outside of this book, I've not been able to find any other independent source to back up these findings, so I dunno. I suppose it's the peculiarities of the man, his art and his organization that spawn such speculative details ... 🤔
Stupid people always have stupid comments to make. You can't make sense out of nonsense. RIP Mr. Disney. Thanks for all the great films and cartoons that I grew up with.
Definition of fact by Merriam Webster dictionary:
1a: something that has actual existence
space exploration is now a fact
b: an actual occurrence
prove the fact of damage
2: a piece of information presented as having objective reality
These are the hard facts of the case.
There ARE NO FALSE FACTS. There are false starements or false claims, but FACTS are TRUE by definiton.
False Facts is an OXYMORON , a CONTRADICTION.
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@@davidwesley2525 I didn't say anything to the contrary of that.
No one ever talks about Ub Iwerks
Yes, particularly since his inventions were patented in his own name. He's the one who came up with the moving glass scenery plates that gave Disney's animated feature films such amazing depth and realistic movement through the scenery. Iwerks also invented a method of restoring celluloid film and eliminated scratches that was universally used by the film industry. I never heard that they'd had a falling out, but it doesn't surprise me, since Disney was such an SOB in real life. Stay safe.
@@oldenweery7510 As his career shows, he needed Disney more than Disney needed him. He needed Disney's direction and vision. Iwerks was a genius, don't get me wrong and he deserves credit.
Many things i've read or heard about the disney story over the years has credited him for what he's done, at least as far as Mickey mouse was concerned, he was hired by Disney and asked to develop the character. They had a falling out but He eventually went back to disney later and worked for the company again, his son is even a Disney legend. So I'm assuming they made up. Anyway, not sure where your info about disney being an SOB came from. Aside from fabricated stories like the video shows, I've heard literally nothing but good things about the man.
@@jakehess27 I've been hearing and reading stories about him for decades, complete with film footage of him referring to his workers as Communists because they wanted more security in their jobs and wanted to organize for collective bargaining---under Federal laws. Of course, the Great Red Scares had the country up in arms (look at the outrageous behavior of our own Senator McCarthy and his ilk). He managed to quash chances for Adriana Caselotti of ever having a career after she voiced Snow White and several of the child actors had to put in a lot of time at the original Disneyland. He was a great talent, but like a lot of men, had an equally large ego.
Walt was named after Walter Parr The Family's Minister.
@Julie Raffaldt Walt Disney was named after Walter Parr. But was given his Elias as his Middle name. Walt Disney's mother Flora was pregnant with Walt at the same time as William parr's wife was pregnant and the men said that if they both had boys they would name their children after each other so the Disneys named their son Walter Elias Disney.
I hold enduring gratitude to Wait Disney for his association with Dr. Wernher von Braun ... which provided the initial push needed to get the ball rolling toward America's successful landings of men on the moon. When I was a boy I watched his three part Disneyland series about outer space first run. It was AWESOME!
Every one expects Walt disney to be a perfect man. And he kinda is. Thats why so many people like the guy from this channel tries to find something about him and make it sound bad
he Isn't, he was a Fervently racist man who had ties with the nazis and america first party. the cartoon, big bad wolf, had a cancelled character which was a anti-semetic trope.
Well yeah of course he’s not in the castle. he’s under the statue....
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Finally someone spilled the beans!!! 😜
No , Disney is kept in the freezer.
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This video literally caught my attention
3:31 Walter Elias Disney was descended from a French religious family (Jesuits? Hugenots?). Their original name _d' Isîgny_ . This connection may have misled historians to anti-Semitism.
8:32 Don't forget Will Eisner (and later Stan Lee's collaborator Jack Kirby)!
9:43 His nephew Roy Disney allegedly also was interested in doing that before he died.
He's a great filmmaker right up to steven Spielberg
i no he loved trains
You know, the whole cryo sleep thing might make for a fun and interesting movie. I'm surprised no one has ever done it yet.
What about the legend of the Secret Room in Disneyland, where there's a three year waiting list and you also have to be famous to get into? :)
The way I remembered reading it, was that, Walt' wife actually saw the picture of Mickey Mouse that somebody had drawn and SHE was the one who pushed both Disney and Ira to pursue and make Mickey the star. Because she felt and thought, correctly, that mouse would be thought of as more "cute and cuddly" to most people. I don't have a source for that, but I DO remember reading that many years ago, though and that sounds about right to me, at least. :)
She also came up with the name Mickey Mouse, Walt originally named him Mortimer but his wife convinced him to change it
I went there in1966 when I was 9 years old, it was so crowded then. I'm 63 now will never go back, the prices are rediclish. Taking a family of 4 you can pay your house payment. Go camping instead, love nature
If you think prices for Disneyland tickets are expensive, then you should think every theme park's tickets are overpriced..
Different strokes for different folks Barbara... ive been 50 + times in my life and will continue to go, it’s my go to happy place... not everyone likes the same stuff
My parents took me to Disneyworld in Florida. I hated it because I don't like Disney characters. I loved Looney Tunes and Six Flags over Georgia was my happy place. I also got the chance to take my son to Universal Studios for Thanksgiving week and we had a blast!! He doesn't like Disney and is a Nickelodeon kid🤣 You're correct about the prices being astronomical. We will be paying just to breathe at the parks next😂🤣
@@ladycheyne5607 Then I know the reason you like Six Flags :)
@@poog5293 The cartoons that they played while in line had me in tears. My dad's company had season passes for $40 and one day entry tix for $18. Disney was too "sugary and straight laced" for me.
Good work on setting the record straight. It has been infuriating over the years. Thank you Simpsons and Family guy for spreading this slander.
@maltese 84 we will never know
@@Taydar All you have to do to know is look up firsthand accounts and primary sources. That will tell you exactly who Walt was, and he was not at all concerned with race or politics lol.
@cealdi1516 people don't and still believe. I've talked to people who literally discount first hand evidence because it contradicts Family guy.
@@Taydar the ignorance is INSANE. I go around and make fun of every one of them I see.
@@cealdi1516 good for you
Disney has to exist. And some people are uncheesifiable. But the disney dream HAS to exist.
Disney is probably really the guy in Carousel of Progress. Or he’s standing the the Hall of Presidents.
"According to Snopes"..... See ya
Truth
“False” facts aren’t facts at all.
human1time I guess it’s cleaner than saying here’s some bullshit passed along through the years.
Yes I believed Disney
Another thing about him that many believe but that is said not be true is that his last words were "Kurt Russell".
Oh how much the cartooning has come a far away. I didn't know much of Walt Disney in Finland but I loved Donald Duck & had the cartoon magazine coming weekly at our childhood home very long time ago. You can buy Donald Duck comic books about every store & kiosks over there and I was so sadden when I got to USA and here they are nowhere to be found. The old cartoons were by far the best ever 💗
The Donald Duck comic books have their following in the U.S.; they can be found in comic book specialty shops. The best-known artist and writer of those books was Carl Barks (1901-2000), who is also credited as having created Scrooge McDuck. It's interesting that reading those books with adult eyes I find them intriguing and not at all embarrassing kid stuff. A head concussion that turned Donald into a super-genius was even recorded (well, one panel anyway) in Morrison and Boyd's college textbook on organic chemistry.
@@wdd3141 Ahaa so that's where they are hiding. I've found some one time in a yard sale. I believe you're right About Carl Barks. I have a drawer full of my collection I brought from Finland and I love to read them as adult. I did not know about Donald & collage thing heh hee
Your video Really takes away from all the commercials Put in to them
Facts are true by definition. That is a contradiction in terms.
I know you got me to subscribe keep growing your fame guy's
this channel is going to get dinged for using Disney backstage video clips 0:13
Walt Disney was a flawed man but he is not a saint or a devil
Most people are, actually.
Remember when school was a thing guys
What does this have to do with Walt Disney?
I'm italian and i know what Italy is nation favorite of Walt Disney Company!
I know where Robinson is! I’m from Illinois!
Snopes eats poop out of my shorts! Don't quote them, ever, it you want to be credible!
Davis Fred
You’re much more adult.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you... I'm just a little curious/concerned as to why there was poop in your shorts for Snopes to eat in the first place. Seems like an story about that somewhere... but please don't elaborate on it. I'll just wait for the movie to come out.
@@erichart7377 they left out the parts about walts rampant satanism, so it was mypolite way of saying your phony documentary is less than the poop in my undershorts which s nopes is also welcome to.
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I'm sorry, wtf is "casual" antisemitism?
The only thing I didn't already know was Flora (his mother) passing away from carbon monoxide poisoning.
According to Snopes...bahahaha
One I wish wasn't true but sadly it is that he was a smoker, which he had to hide to keep hims and his studio imagine family friends. Even through in Saving Mr. Banks you do see the aftermath of a smoking session, through you don't actually see him smoking.
What you should keep in mind is smoking was a societal norm then before considering it bad consider the time period Walt Disney was in was one were everybody smoked and until the link to lung cancer was discovered by doctors they had no idea how bad it was for people.
Walt Disney was given a Dishonorable Discharge from the US Navy. It was on display, @ Disneyland, in CA.
He never served in the Navy (or any military branch). He drove an ambulance for the Red Cross.
He was never in the Navy. He was once in the Red Cross, as a teenager, at the end of WWI. At one point, he was court marshalled because he and another guy were given an errand that took them to some outpost or something, and the guy told Walt to wait there and he'd be back after completing the mission, I guess he was older or more superior idk. But anyway this guy then went on a 3 day bender leaving Walt at this post. After 2 days, Walt finally abandoned his post and walked into town where he got a room and slept for an entire day. He was court marshalled for leaving his post. But once he told them what had happened, they dropped the charges. That is where the dishonorable discharge myth actually comes from. If you want, you can look it up literally... anywhere. Google is free.
His animation rocks right up to pixars animations
Good video too bad it will still fall on deaf ears some people are deadset in believing walt was bad no matter what
I've got a racist mickey mouse annual from 1937...
Walt Disney was a created character
All the world's a stage.
Mickey Mouse was just an extension of his own persona
Snopes is not a reliable source.
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Well the Simpson's taught me about this already lol
Wow!
Walt decoy never returned about Sabatier heir. Wonder shall he show up Sunday's this Xmas
I remember the NBC show as "The Wonderful World of Disney" not "Disneyland"
it started as Disneyland and was later changed to that
Tool matters at hand by retracting is monkey wrench regales including Louisiana alloy components
Imma about to get comfy!
FAST AND FURIOUS by Chuck Jones ( Very First Roadrunner and Coyote ) when at Warner's and THE PINK FINK ( First Pink Panther Cartoon ) by Friz Freleng after his partnership with David DePatie blossomed are fairly memorable individual cartoon episodes as well. Pink Panther was the very final Golden Age made for movie theater screen's Cartoon Character to be.
As soon as you said snopes on the first one you lost me. When you use a notoriously corrupt and controlled avenue and dont know it. Everything you say is inherently nullified. You lose.
Right?
Lol, you are a tool. What's wrong, did this go against your already well entrenched and incorrect beliefs? Thoughts and prayers
Walt Disney was inventor of too many original ideas ⚡💡🤯🦄
MY DUDE WAS THE REASON WE HAVE LIDS ON GARBAGE CANS.... and also audioanimatronics
You had me until you quoted snoops
I’m still believing he was cryogenically frozen and resides in the castle.
In Castle Wolfenstein
Let it go.... Let it go....
Was Disney a raging alcoholic? I read he never fell asleep at night but always passed out from drinking every day.
I’m not sure about the drinking, but Disney was a very heavy smoker.
@@Blue-kc5cr Disney died from Lung cancer.
No, but supposedly he did have a drink every night either at home with his wife or at whatever place he hung out with his nerd train lover pals. Lol I mean that in the most complimentary way.
His head IS NOT frozen and stored inside Cinderella castle.........No he spent his last few years with top level scientists figuring out how to transfer his consciousness on to a computer punch card and from his death until 2003 it was updated and transferred to newer media storage and then in 2003 it was implanted into the drunk ass pirate of the Caribbean animatronic
He was also an Anti Dentite
a RABID ANTI-DENTITE!!
What does that mean?
Seinfeld joke
Chris Buchaniec ah! Got it
This guy has some of his facts wrong as well. The narrative about Waldo and Mickey is incorrect. Waldo wasn't "taken by a former business partner". He was specifically designed FOR Universal BY Walt Disney. It was a contractual agreement; there was no "taking" involved. But Walt liked that character and wanted to develop a similar character that Disney actually owned.
cartoons would never be the same without looney tunes
No one said that about steamboat willle
I am 45 and never been to Disney land or world. 😒
Omg I want that suit
I cry because my feelings are hurt during holidays saw who would hurt your feelings
According to Snopes? You are kidding, right? I don't think the two liberal Canadians (Snope) know ANYTHING about Disney. It makes your story a lot less credible.
Can't wait for an America with a Bakshiland
Snopes is not the authority on what is Truth...
"According to snopes..."
The name of the mentioned "lady" is pronounced "Reefenstahl".
When Disney employees tried to unionize he referred to them as Communists. And used this as an excuse for the Feds to investigate them during the Black Listing of Hollywood.
Its because they were Commies. Union leader Herbert Sorrell was a communist Labour leader and along with Art Babbit organised the strike. Walt actually offered to allow the Unions in if put to a vote. Sorrell refused and said he would turn Disney studios to dust. It wasn't an excuse why Walt outed the Commies, he had good reason.
@ThiefRikku0306 Sorrell systematically went through all the studios demanding unions be recognised. It wasn't about wages, it was about union control.
Folks would not believe the symbolism in Disney movies.
Thank you. Ub Iwerks creates him in 1927.
What about Skinless Jim ?
at 0:06 he looks like trae young
You lost me at snopes
How do we know that what you're saying here in the video isn't more false facts?
you can go check the sources that he mentioned and by sources i mean the people that he quoted
Ub Iwerks is the creator of Mickey Mouse
BlueTrainer12 false, he was only the animator
@@feloniousmonk1973 your like the, (i don't how many people), who's told me something like this, do research
BlueTrainer12 at BEST they both created him together, but my understanding is that Disney created him and had Iwerks do the animation because he was better at it
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@@SG-BLAST While it's true that Ub Iwerks did, in fact, play a role in co-creating Mickey Mouse, it was Walt Disney who did come up with Mickey's personality as well as his overall character. I believe he did draw some sketches of Mickey but they did not look good and asked his friend Ub to redraw them. Ub created the friendlier Mickey design we all know and love today and animated a lot of the earlier Mickey cartoons. Both Walt and Ub created Mickey, so let's stop buying into this revisionist history.
It’s just like In that Simpsons episode lol