Photos of Walt Disney pointing with two fingers were edited to remove the cigarette he was holding, as he smoked two packs a day. The pose has been adopted by park employees, and the company now acknowledges smoking likely caused Disney’s death from lung cancer. Disney voiced Mickey Mouse and holds the record for most Academy Awards.
If you’ve ever visited one of the many Disney theme parks around the world, you may have seen a photograph of Walt Disney where he appears to be pointing with two fingers. But he’s not guiding visitors in the direction of the more popular rides. Instead, all the photos of the man who invented the most famous mouse in history have been doctored to hide the fact that he was constantly holding a cigarette. Disney usually smoked two packs a day, but park management didn’t want Disney’s wholesome image tarnished by Walt’s unhealthy habit, so each such image was edited to remove the cigarette from Walt’s hand. Over the years, Walt Disney’s two-finger point (minus the cigarette, of course) has been adopted by park employees, who have been encouraged to mimic the pose, in part because pointing with the index finger is considered rude in some parks. cultures. Tom Hanks even adopted the two-finger point when he played Walt Disney in the biopic Saving Mr. Banks. More recently, however, the Walt Disney Company no longer has a policy to airbrush cigarettes from Disney’s image and has since acknowledged that smoking was almost certainly linked to Walt Disney’s death from lung cancer at the age of 65. years.
What do you know about Walt Disney?
From 1928 to 1947, Mickey Mouse was voiced by his creator, Walt Disney.
Walt Disney holds the record for most Academy Awards earned by an individual, with 22 (from 59 nominations), along with four honorary Academy Awards.
Disney named his original cartoon mouse Mortimer, but changed it to Mickey Mouse after his wife said Mortimer wasn’t catchy.
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