Editing Don Bluth (section)

==Early life==
Bluth was born on September 13, 1937 in [[El Paso, Texas]], to Emaline (née Pratt) and Virgil Roneal Bluth.<ref>{{cite web|title=Don Bluth|url=http://www.mormonsinbusiness.org/mormon_businessmen/don-bluth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110115064455/http://www.mormonsinbusiness.org/mormon_businessmen/don-bluth|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 15, 2011|publisher=Mormons in Business|access-date=July 25, 2012}}</ref> His maternal grandfather was [[Rey Pratt]] from the [[Pratt family]], whose own father [[Helaman Pratt]] was an early leader in [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] as well as a grandfather of [[George W. Romney]] and great-grandfather of [[Mitt Romney]]. He is of [[Swedish people|Swedish]], English, Irish, [[Scottish people|Scottish]], and German descent.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.wargs.com/political/romney.html | title=The Ancestors of Mitt Romney | author=William Addams Reitwiesner | access-date=July 24, 2012}}</ref>

As a child in El Paso, he rode his horse to the town movie theater to watch Disney films. Bluth later said, "then I'd go home and copy every [[Disney comic book]] I could find".<ref name="cardwell19840218">{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9aUfAAAAIBAJ&pg=1426%2C2440647 | title=Laser disc arcade games could become wave of the future | work=The Gadsden Times | date=February 1, 1984 | access-date=November 10, 2013 | author=Cardwell, Lynda | pages=A8}}</ref> At the age of six, his family moved to [[Payson, Utah]], where he lived on a family farm. Bluth has stated that he and his siblings do not communicate with each other as adults.<ref>{{cite web|work=Channel Awesome|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGpupHNRgag|title=Shut Up and Talk: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman| date=January 13, 2016 |access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref> In 1954, his family moved to [[Santa Monica, California]].{{sfn|Cawley|1990|page=[http://www.cataroo.com/DBbio.html 11]}} Bluth attended [[Brigham Young University]] in Utah for one year, and then returned later to complete a degree in English.<ref name=NYTimes8.1.76>{{cite news |last=Culhane |first=John |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/08/01/archives/the-old-disney-magic-can-a-new-generation-of-artists-make-audiences.html |title=The Old Disney Magic |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 1, 1976 |access-date=January 3, 2022}}</ref>