walt disney
Walt got Mr. Nash to come to the
studio and do his duck voice for the
animators.
From that voice, they created
Donald Duck, who made his
first appearance in 1934.
Who, me? Oh, no! I
got a bellyache!
In the years that followed, Donald’s three nephews
joined the crew, as did Daisy Duck and the two
chipmunks, Chip and Dale.
At the same
time Disney
made the Mickey
Mouse cartoons,
he was making
films called Silly
Symphonies.
In 1929 the first one showed a bunch of skeletons
who rose from their graves and danced till dawn.
But three years
before, in 1931, Disney
had already won two
Academy Awards.
One of these was for a
Silly Symphony called
“Flowers and Trees”
and the other was
for creating Mickey
Mouse.
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