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‘I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing,” Walt Disney famously said, “that it was all started by a mouse.” True enough. But in 1937, just when Disney was about to release the first of the classic features that would establish his dominance over the animated film industry, an underpaid, ragtag group of cartoonists on the other side of Hollywood was beginning to challenge Uncle Walt by formulating the style that would represent the…