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What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as by our senses. Cartoon animation can give fantasy the same reality as those things we can touch and see and hear.

Walt Disney

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Walt Disney
Age: 64 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 5
Died: 1966
Died: February 15
Actor
Animator
Caricaturist
Director
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Film Director
Film Producer
Illustrator
Inventor
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Chicago
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Walter Elias Disney
W. Disney
Walter E. Disney
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