Out of the competitive animation world of the early 1920s there emerged one superstar by the end of the decade, Walt Disney. After his Kansas City-based Laugh-O-Gram Films (formed with commercial artist Ub Iwerks) went bankrupt in 1923, he, his older brother Roy and Iwerks arrived in Hollywood and, on the strength of the Laugh-O-Gram short "Alice's Wonderland" (1923), soon had a production deal for six episodes of "The Alice Comedies". When the series ended three-and-a-half years later, it had provided a substantial base from which the monolith could grow. With Iwerks doing the drawing, Roy