Laugh-O-Gram Films

Short-lived animation studio founded by Walt Disney in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1922. Laugh-O-Gram produced a series of animated fairy-tale shorts and the pilot Alice's Wonderland (1923). The studio went bankrupt in 1923, after which Disney moved to Hollywood and used the Alice series to launch his career. Despite its brief life, Laugh-O-Gram is where Disney first assembled the team and techniques that would define his later work.