Editing Alice Comedies (section)

==The ''Alice Comedies'' series begins==
[[File:Alice the Lumberjack poster.jpg|thumb|Poster for the 1926 film ''Alice the Lumber Jack''. Margie Gay plays Alice.|left]]
After completing the film, the studio went bankrupt and was forced to shut down. After raising money by working as a freelance photographer, Disney bought a one-way train ticket to Los Angeles, California to live with his uncle Robert and his brother [[Roy O. Disney|Roy]]. In California, Disney continued to send out proposals for the ''Alice'' series, in hopes of obtaining a distribution agreement. A deal was finally arranged through Winkler Pictures, run by [[Margaret Winkler]]<ref name="Newsweek Austin">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newsweek.com/disney-origins-walt-margaret-winkler-hungarian-immigrant-1478670|title=The story of the Hungarian immigrant who funded Walt Disney|last=Austin|first=Daryl|date=2019-12-21|work=Newsweek|language=en|access-date=2019-12-21|archive-date=December 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221201451/https://www.newsweek.com/disney-origins-walt-margaret-winkler-hungarian-immigrant-1478670|url-status=live}}</ref> and her fiancé, [[Charles Mintz]]. Because of a recent falling out with [[Pat Sullivan (film producer)|Pat Sullivan]], the studio needed a quick replacement for their centerpiece [[Felix the Cat]] animated series.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/W/M._J._Winkler_Productions/|title=M. J. Winkler Productions|publisher=Big Cartoon DataBase|access-date=December 20, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160508134123/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/W/M._J._Winkler_Productions/|archive-date=May 8, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Disney convinced Davis's family to bring her from Missouri to Los Angeles to star in the series.<ref>''The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story'', [[Leslie Iwerks]], [[Walt Disney Pictures]], 1999</ref>