Walt made sure of that, says a new book, “ A Mouse Divided” by Jeff Ryan (Post Hill Press), out Tuesday. Iwerks has been largely forgotten by the general public, his place in creating the Disney brand downplayed. In reality, Mickey Mouse was created by an animator named Ub Iwerks - sketched in March 1928 on an ordinary piece of two-hole punch paper in less than an hour. According to Walt Disney, the idea for Mickey Mouse suddenly popped into his head on a 1928 cross-country train ride “when the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb,” as he wrote in 1948.
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