From the publisher:

During the Roaring Twenties, Walt Disney and his friends made upwards of one hundred films, turning them out as often as one- and two- per month. Years before Mickey Mouse, the young entrepreneur recruited and nurtured an extraordinary array of talent that included Ub Iwerks, Rudy Ising, Carl Stalling, Hugh Hannan, and Friz Freleng: men who in later years played crucial roles in creating the golden era of Disney, Warner Brothers and MGM cartoons. What the Disney silents reveal is absorbing: a director taking his first tentative steps, then gathering confidence and exploring new avenues of expression with images that are still fresh and exhilarating today. They bear out the intuition of common sense: that Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies were not created in a vacuum, and that Disney was developing his gifts as a producer from the beginning.

Through it all, Disney's gift for creating witty gags and charming characters become immediately apparent. So do his as a teacher, and his growing appetite for the macabre and the sado-masochistic. Drawing on interviews with Disney's workers, Disney's business papers, promotional materials, scripts, drawings, and correspondence, Walt in Wonderland attempts to reconstruct Disney's silent film career and place his early films in critical perspective. It also provides a detailed filmography of Disney's silent work. The original edition of Walt in Wonderland was awarded the 1993 Kraszna-Krausz Book Award.

This is the first English language edition after the bilingual edition from a year earlier.

This came from the library of Burny Mattinson (1935-2023), an animator, director, producer, and story artist for Walt Disney Animation Studios, from 1953 until his death in 2023. Mattinson directed Mickey's Christmas Carol and The Great Mouse Detective. He was named a Disney Legend in 2008 and was the longest serving employee of The Walt Disney Company, with a career that spanned almost 70 years. His extensive library included numerous subjects and especially large collections of books on Disney, animation, and classic comic strips.