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Looking back, Walt Disney felt that 1941 was the worst year of his life. He felt betrayed when his animators went on strike and forced him to shut down the new studio he d just built with the profits from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio and Fantasia. As labor negotiations dragged on, Disney did what no other Hollywood studio chief would have done. He packed his wife and 16 important employees on an airplane and embarked on a goodwill tour of South America.
In large part because of Mickey Mouse, Disney had become the world s most beloved Hollywood moviemaker since Chaplin. He d been asked to make the tour by President Roosevelt, who, on the brink of war, was alarmed by Nazi inroads on the continent. Walt took the trip partly for patriotic reasons, and partly, I suspect, to get out of Dodge. The employees he took along (dubbed El Grupo ) weren t mostly executives but creative talent; he hoped they d get ideas for new films while on tour. Included w