When Walt was little he wanted to be an artist but his dad Elias Disney didn't think that was something Walt wanted to be, but Walt wanted to be an artist. In 1922, when Walt was 20 years old, he owned a buisness called laug I gram. Halfway through the production, Walt was broke. He sold his movie camera. He would go to where all film makers go he would go for California. In 1928 he created a mouse named Mickey Mouse.