Disney was a for profit company for sure but as far as the cartoons go I heard from very reliable people that Walt did indeed make most if not all the them for free. At that time my family knew a lot of Hollywood people, that's where I hear this. They did however make a lot of money doing the camouflage for Lockheed.
Walt was the dreamer and his brother Roy was the business man.
They had a big argument over Disneyland. Roy said no but Walt won that one also.
I knew Walt a little bit, use to go to his house to ride the train set up he had in his back yard. The cars were big enough to sit on top of them. Walt would spend Saturdays riding kids around. It was featured on the Disneyland TV show once.
Walt Disney was one of my favorite people of the twentieth century so I'm just sticking up for him.
Having said that today's Disney Studios are very much different. In fact they became a different company not long after Walt died.
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