Exactly 100 years ago, animation took a huge leap forward: Walt Disney scored his first job as a cartoonist
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On Jan. 29, 1920, Disney, then 18, saw an ad for a $40-a-week position at the Kansas City Film Ad Co. The high school dropout's task was drawing and manipulating stick figures used in theatrical cartoons. The company was the largest of its type in the country. Disney would draw a character, cut out the parts that would move, pin them to a board and photograph them as they were shifted ever so slightly. If done enough times, a film with continuous action could be made.
. "It was simple and basic, but it gave Walt a chance to experiment with animation." When he'd returned from France after driving a Red Cross ambulance during World War I, Disney found work as a newspaper cartoonist, but the Film Ad Co. job took him in a different direction — and eventually to Los Angeles to open his own company in 1923. He later said, "The trick of making things move on film is what got to me.
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