Suspended Between Reality and Perception

via caseydonahue:  ”Only one of the employees was married, the others who had no other responsibilities or romantic entanglements formed an infantile gang of pranksters and hams. A friend who visited Walt’s office at the time asked Walt if he was making any money. “You smiled and said ‘No, but you was having fun.’ Again I thought, will he ever grow up?”

 On weekends the staff took out the Universal camera and prowled the streets, looking for accidents. If they failed to find one, they would often stage one to shoot. On one occasion, thinking that the Universal camera was not impressive looking enough, they rigged two large cans to a box and then cruised pretending to film. “People would come up and pose and say ‘Where are you from?’”   Rudy Ising said, “And we’d say, ‘New York’”

—An excerpt about Walt Disney’s first company, Laugh-O-Gram Studios which he started in his early 20’s.