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    The document provides background on the early history of animation studios and the people involved in them. It details how Walt Disney and some of his artists created the Laugh-O-Gram studio but faced bankruptcy. They later joined forces with Charles Mintz's studio, but Mintz took control of their work and fired Disney. This left Disney with nothing except an idea for a new character named Mickey Mouse, which would go on to great success and mark a new beginning.

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    The document provides background on the early history of animation studios and the people involved in them. It details how Walt Disney and some of his artists created the Laugh-O-Gram studio but faced bankruptcy. They later joined forces with Charles Mintz's studio, but Mintz took control of their work and fired Disney. This left Disney with nothing except an idea for a new character named Mickey Mouse, which would go on to great success and mark a new beginning.

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    Termite Terrace

    The Story Of the Warner Bros.


    Cartoons
    Chapter 1

    The Early Beginnings

    This is a story of a group of artist and filmmakers who would be known


    for doing what Disney Animation would not. They had a small company
    based on a large studio, based in a crummy shack. Yet in this crummy
    shack, they would make some of the greatest short films put to screen.

    Yet our story begins in one of the strangest places for a book on the The
    Warner Bros. Cartoons. It starts at a small company now known as
    Disney. A group of men worked there. Of course, you had Walt and Roy
    Disney, the founders with Ub Iwerks, but then you had Rudolph Ising,
    nicknamed Rudy, Hugh Harman and his friend Isadore Freleng,
    nicknamed Friz along with Carman “Max” Maxwell. These men,
    although they did not know would pave the way for The Golden Age of
    American Animation. Yet they were in a rut. The worst rut to be for an
    already struggling Cartoon studio.

    The Studio had just filed for bankruptcy meaning the end of the Laugh-
    o-Gram Cartoons. The Disney Brothers and Ub Iwerks went to
    California. However, Harman, Ising and Maxwell wanted to start their
    own studio. That as you may know, went nowhere. But lucky for them
    Disney contacted them and offered Harman more money and more credit
    than before. A lie Rudy would not get over

    At this point things seemed to be going smoothly. Sure, they had had to
    end their Alice Comedies, but they had a new star on their hands with
    Oswald The Lucky Rabbit. Yet things as usual were about to go
    downhill. By 1927, Disney attempted to renew his contract with Winkler
    Pictures, but Charles Mintz, who had taken over Margaret Winkler's
    business after marrying her, wanted to not only wanted more control over
    the cartoons but wanted Disney to have less pay than before
    Disney said no and with that meant that he got fired lost the rights to
    Oswald and all of his staff including Harman-Ising and Friz, were taken
    away from him, apart from Ub Iwerks, who stayed loyal.

    Disney had nothing. However, on a train ride back from where he met
    with Mintz, he came up with an idea of a mouse. A character that would
    be his own and who he owned. With the name suggested by his own wife
    Lillian, he was called Mickey Mouse, and the rest, as they say, is
    history.h

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