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After producing his first run of Mickey Mouse cartoons, Walt Disney had a falling out with his central business partner in 1930.

In 1929, Powers sold Walt Disney a Cinephone system so that he could make sound cartoons such as Mickey Mouse's Steamboat Willie (1928). Unable to find a distributor for the sound cartoons, Disney began releasing his cartoons through Powers' company Celebrity Pictures.

After one year of successful Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies cartoons, Walt Disney confronted Powers in 1930 about money due to Disney from the distribution deal. Powers responded by signing Disney's head animator Ub Iwerks to an exclusive deal to create his own animations.

With a PoD occurring around this time, the challenge is to get Walt Disney to relocate his animation studios to Nazi Germany.
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