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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“Happy birthday, it’s Donald’s birthday, happy happy birthday to you.” These are the lyrics to Disneyland’s 1984 parade celebrating the 50th anniversary of Donald Duck, and they seem appropriate today. On this day in 1934, audiences were first introduced to an irascible little duck named Donald in the Disney animated short subject The Wise Little …
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Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Certainly not Walt Disney Productions, because after the 1933 success of the Academy Award®-winning Three Little Pigs, three little sequels followed. First was The Big Bad Wolf (1934), followed by Three Little Wolves (1936) and The Practical Pig (1939). The Big Bad Wolf is a combination of two …
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It lasts just a little more than a minute, but the famous “flypaper sequence” that concludes the Mickey Mouse cartoon Playful Pluto, which was released on this day in 1934, remains one of the most influential animations of all time. The dazzling sequence, from the hand of William Norman “Norm” Ferguson, the primary animator of …
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On this day in 1934, Mickey and Minnie took to the great outdoors in the early black-and-white cartoon short Camping Out. Joined by Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow, the gang finds themselves under attack by an excessive swarm of mosquitoes and teams up in an effort to get the pests to bug off. Both Clarabelle …
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