Director
"I was born in Birmingham, Ala....In 1914 I worked with Barre, who was starting work in the animating field. Along came 1917 and the U.S. joined the Allies. Years after the Armstice I was driving a truck which ran into a Ford. The man driving the latter turned out to be....Walt Disney....(W)hen he formed his Mickey Mouse organization he sent for me...." ~ published in the June 20, 1931 edition of The Motion Picture Daily
