At Kansas City Film Ad Company,
Walt learned to make animated
cartoons using cut-out figures
with moveable parts.
In his spare time, he used a
borrowed camera to make his
own cartoons. A little later he
sold these to a local theater.
These “laugh-o-grams” as he
called them, used drawings
instead of cutouts to create
motion.
Soon Walt had enough money to
start his own company, Laugh-OGram.
Walt ate once a day at a Greek
restaurant where the owners gave
him credit. At night he slept in
the Laugh-O-Gram office.
But within a year the company
went bankrupt.
Young Walt Disney was broke.