Winkler and Disney signed a deal to produce and distribute 12 episodes of Alice Comedies. According to Disney, the contract "is considered the founding document of The Walt Disney Company." ...

On Oct. 16, 1923, Margaret Winkler agreed to produce and distribute "Alice Comedies," a new series by Walt Disney, at the time a struggling cartoonist in Kansas City. That contract is considered ...

That last film provided fodder for a long series of Alice Comedies that launched Walt Disney Production in 1923. The first 56 ...

Charles Mintz and Walt Disney had often clashed, even back in the Alice Comedies days. Mintz often felt the cartoons Disney produced weren’t as good as they could be, and he felt the studio took ...

Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney pen a deal with Margaret Winkler, one of the leading distributors in animation at the time, to fund 12 episodes of the Alice Comedies. Known at the time as ...

On Oct. 16, 1923, Margaret Winkler agreed to produce and distribute Alice Comedies, a new series by Walt Disney. That contract is considered the founding document of The Walt Disney Company.