Walt Disney is arguably the most significant person in the history of animation. Disney began his career in animation in 1919 and went on to is known for releasing the first animated feature length movie, "Snow White" in 1937. The Disney studio still produces animated feature films and other material even after Walt Disney's death in 1966. The Disney company has become an entertainment empire and is today one of the largest media companies in the world. This essay will compare and contrast the writings of three different authorities, Paul Wells (2002), Leonard Maltin (1987), and Harry Benshoff (1992) who have written about Walt Disney and his contribution to the animation industry. All three authorities have identified Walt Disney as a key and pioneering figure and agree that he has both affected and shaped the industry. The main comparison will investigate the notion that Walt Disney was an animation auteur. Auteur is a word that is derived from the French language and has a connotation to the "high art" of literary authorship. It has come to mean; "A filmmaker, generally a director, who creates a body of work with a unified sensibility that reveals, through the interplay of themes and styles, a personal worldview', it has also come to mean 'any filmmaker who performed or was intimately involved in all aspects of the movie making process - writing, directing, producing, editing etc." (The Internet Movie Database). Popular culture animation can be seen as a hybrid art form, that is, animation involves a combination of drawing, painting (traditional or digital), story-telling, and music and is generally manufactured in a studio/factory by a large number of highly creative and skilled individuals. The work is created by many people through many stages of development over an extended period of time. The assumption that the person whose name is attached to the cartoon was the person who executed the drawings has been already been prove