Greek mythology tells us of King Midas, who could turn anything he touched into gold and from which the term the “Midas touch” was coined. It was Midas who was tapped to be the star of the animated Silly Symphony The Golden Touch. This golden featurette was, appropriately, the 50th Silly Symphony and debuted on …
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The Mickey Mouse Daily Comic strip first appeared in the Kings Features newspapers on January 13, 1930 and featured Mickey Mouse doing everything from learning to fly to taming snakes. In this strip, Mickey is tasked with selling newspapers to save his business and enlists the help of paperboy Donald Duck to come to the …
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Just sit right back, and you’ll hear a tale of what happened on this day in 1935. The Mickey Mouse cartoon short Mickey’s Man Friday sailed into theaters, telling the story of what happens when Mickey finds himself at sea and then lands on an island of cannibal natives. When one of the inhabitants is …
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Not all of Walt Disney’s stories were derived from the last 20 centuries. In fact, one Academy Award® winner was shelled out somewhere between 620 and 560 BC. Aesop’s Fables were written by the famous storyteller in ancient Greece, telling morally educational stories such as The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Ant and the Grasshopper, and …
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On this day in 1934, Fifi was kidnapped… or dognapped. In the cartoon short The Dognapper, Minnie Mouse’s prized Pekinese pooch, Fifi, turns up missing and the prime suspect is that pitiful Peg Leg Pete. Police officers Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck attentively write down the description of the suspect’s car: “Four wheels, two headlights, …
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Bonjour! On this day, 21 Octobre in 1934, a magazine dedicated to Mickey (pronounced Me-KAY), the world’s most famous “souris,” was first published in France. To this day, every Mercredi—that’s Wednesday in English—readers look forward to the newest issue of Le Journal de Mickey. With paper shortages and other limited resources due to World War …
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It was a dark and stormy night when Mickey Mouse was reading the frightening tale of “The Cry in the Night” to Pluto. Meanwhile, outside their home, a hooded figure approaches, leaving a basket with a baby in it along with an attached note which read, “Please give little Elmer a good home. He ain’t …
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Everyone knows Mickey and Minnie and Donald and Daisy. There’s Belle and the Beast and Lady and Tramp, but what about Peter and Polly Penguin? These two early Disney sweethearts appeared in the Silly Symphony Peculiar Penguins, which first waddled into theaters on this day in 1934. This full-color tale of the black and white …
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Whoever heard of a flying mouse? That’s a trait even Mickey would have been envious of. In 1934’s The Flying Mouse, a little mouse becomes just that. When the wishful critter saves a butterfly from a web, it turns out to be a butterfly fairy. On a wing and a prayer, the ready rodent requests …
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On this day, Milt Kahl began his long and illustrious career with Disney. This Disney Legend and one of Walt Disney’s famed “nine old men” is considered by many to be one of the finest animators ever to work for Disney. Master animator Andreas Deja, who worked on The Princess and the Frog, was “drawn” …
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