The animated man: a life of Walt Disney

Introduction : "It's all me"

"The pet in the family" : on the farm and in the city, 1901-1923

"A cute idea" : the self-taught filmmaker, 1923-1928

"You've got to really be Minnie" : building a better mouse, 1928-1933

"This character was a live person" : the leap to feature films, 1934-1938

"A drawing factory" : ambition's price, 1938-1941

"A queer, quick, delightful gink" : on a treadmill, 1941-1947

"Caprices and spurts of childishness" : escaping from animation, 1947-1953

"He was interested in something else" : escaping from film, 1953-1959

"This is where I am happy" : restless in the Magic Kingdom, 1959-1965

"He drove himself right up to the end" : dreaming of a nightmare city, 1965-1966

Afterword : "Let's never not be a silly company".