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But Walt could not do one take. He wanted to be a success.
He was a
perfectionist.*
He was
working too
hard.
Do it over!
Finally, he went to a doctor. The doctor told him to take a long vacation.
When he
returned
to work, he
was his old
self again.
In the 1930s, the Disney studio grew very big.
More people were added to the staff. Another
thing that grew was Mickey Mouse’s gang!
Pluto began in 1931. Goofy came a little later.
* regards anything short of perfection as unacceptable
One day Walt
heard a man named
Clarence Nash on
the radio. Nash
recited “Mary Had
a Little Lamb” in a
duck voice.