DBWI: Walt Disney more successful?

Any animation buff will tell you that the early cartoons by Walt Disney where amoung the most influential things to happen to the industry. They'll also tell you he died in poverty, forgotten and bitter. What if he was more successful on the business side? Maybe his ambitious plan for a full length animated movie of Snow White didn't fall through? Any thoughts?
 
Any animation buff will tell you that the early cartoons by Walt Disney where amoung the most influential things to happen to the industry. They'll also tell you he died in poverty, forgotten and bitter. What if he was more successful on the business side? Maybe his ambitious plan for a full length animated movie of Snow White didn't fall through? Any thoughts?

I think if Disney should have the valor enough to make a direct adaption of Snow White, keeping the Dwarf(who were a big plot point) and making less a musical movie with cartoons and more a fairy tale animated, that would make Snow white a sucess rather the bomb who bankrupt Walt Disney Studios, heck he even want to make that, put the producers and his wife tell about drawf were taboo in the culture and that would be bad.

Ironically Tex avery would make his own adaptaion of Snow white mostly intact(one of his first non looney toons works) and being a sucess, ironically later Disney will help tex avery with his Looney Toons, with Mouse Mickey and Doogfy(Otl Goofey), added to the stable, but Disney never read the small print who make those characther Tex Avery properties.
 
The thing that is odd is it seemed Snow White would have had everything going in its favor, but since Disney couldn't get the financing, it died in the crib.

Instead, Max Fleischer's Gulliver's Travels became the first animated feature, in 1939, and there we go. Mr. Bug Goes To Town (1941) suffered from being released just before WW2, but Fleischer picked up steam with Puss In Boots (1943), then following up by turning his Superman short cartoons into a full-fledged animated feature in 1945 - a major hit.

Had Snow White hit, Disney had plenty of other ideas (and properties) ready - some movie historians list Pinocchio, Don Quixote and the Tales of Hans Christian Andersen among them - and likely all of them musicals. Hard to see how they'd compete against Fleischer's more sophisticated adventure films as Superman, its sequel Superman Wins the War (1947), and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1950).
 
Here is another thing to ponder.

My great uncle knew Disney and he said that Walt used to tell him about his dream of opening a different kind of amusement park, more along the lines of the old European venues (think Trivoli gardens).

Supposedly the idea was to make a "theme park" that would be entertaining to kids and adults.

What if he'd gone in that direction instead ?
 
Maybe if he'd done something other than Snow White and the Seven Dwarves? Remember, this was right on the heels of Freaks, a midget-focused film that ruined the career of another Hollywood golden boy, this time, the man who made Dracula. Maybe Disney made one of his other ideas for the first full length animated featuture. Maybe something invoving Mickey and Donald?
 
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