was walt disney a good guy?

Yes and no. He was kind of an artistic genius. He got into short animated films in the very early days, the silent days, and built Disney studios into kind of the Rolls Royce of the cartoon world. His work was better than MGM and Warner Bros., especially in the early days, and those big studios had a lot more money to throw at their cartoons.

He did the first full-length animated feature (well, not actually the first but the first seen in the US.) Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs. It was not expected to do well but it was a huge success. It's a good film even today! Then Disney brought out a steady stream of animated features which even today have a sort of 'canonical' quality. Later ones, like Pinnochio, pushed the art of hand-drawn animation as far as it ever went. (In fact if you saw their latest effort, Tangled, it was very carefully engineered to try to get back to the look of Disney's old hand-drawn films.)

The whole idea of what we today call a Theme Park was Disney's idea. He'd always seen 'amusement parks' where kids went on rides and the adults sat on a park bench and watched them. He wanted a park where the adults went on rides too. Disneyland, the original one, was an incredible thing when it started in 1957 (?), there was just nothing like it in the world. The next few competing theme parks failed within a year or two. They weren't able to follow Walt's model.

He also had a TV program on Sunday night, one of the first programs to appear in color. It went for years and years, and served mostly as an 'infomercial' for Disney's latest films and Disneyland.

Walt had great success and I think the money kind of went to his head. In the 50s and 60s the Disney studio's work became formulaic and stilted, following those formulas he'd found that brought in the most cash. He became less of an artist and innovator and thinker, and more of a successful CEO.

But it was after Walt's death that the Disney company really scaled new heights of greed and rapacity. Walt had secured access to a huge tract of land in central Florida, near the then-sleepy little town of Orlando. Walt had an agreement with the state that he would develop Disney World and Epcot Center, and the rest of the land would be preserved for wildlife and nature. After Walt died, the entire area became a huge 'ghetto' of hotels and restaurants and tourist attractions. The Disney company got its fingers into all kinds of media and became a major player in broadcasting, recording, films, etc. etc. You can't blame Walt for that but he laid the groundwork.

U may not believe this but walt disney supported what the Nazis were doing

Apparently not. He was an incredibly talented man with a great gift but he supported one of the sickest evils of all time.

Family guy interprets things how the want its not always fact.. It bothers me sometimes how even cartoons are about politics now This is not gods kingdom until after the cataclysm

He was a seek bastard.

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he did good things with his movie franchises, but he hated the "jews" and in spirit approved of nazi germany, so make of that what you will. Form your own opinion, dont let others tell you how to think.