It took all of Disney’s considerable salesmanship to convince those who stayed behind that the company had much of a future." You didn’t look at it as work.” But as the company continued to sink, it inevitably suffered defections – including, for a while, the loss of its most talented animator, Ubbe Iwerks. As Walt Pfeiffer, one of Disney’s employee-friends said, “It was more fun than pay. By all accounts, his Kansas City studio was a wonderful clubhouse for a gang of pranksters and adventure-happy youngsters barely out of high school. And now, with the Tennessee branch of Pictorial Clubs going out of business and the parent organization refusing any responsibility for the contract, the demise of Disney’s company was only a matter of time." A year after signing his contract with Pictorial Clubs of Tennessee, he had received virtually no money for his work. Disney the naïve country boy had been swindled by city slickers. Kaufman (GCM Catalogue): "By the time Disney put his final Laugh-O-gram into production, his company was in desperate shape. Viewed at Teatro Verdi, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, with e-subtitles in Italian, grand piano: Stephen Horne. 9' (22 fps) from: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kid (1929) D: Walt Disney anim: Walt Disney, Ubbe Iwerks, Hugh Harman, Rudy Ising, Carman “Max” Maxwell, Lorey Tague, Otto Walliman filmed: Laugh-O-gram studio, 1127 E. (Laugh-O-gram, US 1923) Reissue: The K.O.
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