On this day in 1925, Alice didn’t board an iron horse, an early term for a locomotive, but a smaller “tin pony,” in the comedy short Alice’s Tin Pony. Featuring Margie Gay as the live-action heroine in the cartoon world, this episode in Walt Disney’s Alice series sees the young leading lady and her cat …
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Disney’s California Adventure has the beautiful Hyperion Theater, Disney Publishing has its Hyperion brand of adult books, and Disneyland Paris has its Café Hyperion . . . and it all started with an event that occurred on this day in 1925. Brothers Walt and Roy Disney put down a $400 deposit on a lot to …
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Lillian Bounds was a secretary working for Walt Disney shortly after the start of the Disney company, when he became enthralled with her, and although he vowed he would not marry before he was at least 25 years old with $10,000 saved, he couldn’t resist. On this day in 1925, the two married at Lillian’s …
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Company co-founder Roy O. Disney began dating Edna Francis in Kansas City, Missouri, around 1911. “Roy and I were just going together,” she later recalled. “We stopped at a drugstore to get a soda, and Walt came to see Roy because he wanted a quarter or a half-dollar for paper to draw on. Even then, …
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Alice Solves the Puzzle, a short animated and live-action film about Alice trying to complete a crossword puzzle, arrived in theaters on this day in 1925. After the heroine of Disney’s short film series takes a short break to swim with her pal, Julius the cat, she comes “across” Bootleg Pete, an evil collector of …
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Released between 1924 and 1927, Alice Comedies are a series of 56 silent, black and white cartoons that feature a live girl, Alice, acting in Cartoonland. Walt sent out the unfinished pilot film, Alice’s Wonderland, to various cartoon distributors in New York, and one of them, Margaret Winkler, agreed to distribute the series with payment …
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Released between 1924 and 1927, the Alice Comedies are a series of 56 silent black-and-white cartoons that feature a live girl, Alice, acting in Cartoonland. Walt sent out the unfinished pilot film, Alice’s Wonderland, to various cartoon distributors in New York, and one of them, Margaret Winkler, agreed to distribute the series with payment beginning …
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On this day in 1924, Alice’s Fishy Story hooked audiences on the fifth installment of Walt Disney’s Alice Comedy series, featuring young Virginia Davis in the lead role. In the live-action first portion of the film, Alice is practicing her piano when the local boys beckon her to join them on a fishing trip. She …
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On this day in 1924, audiences were introduced to Alice, Walt Disney’s first live- action heroine, who took to the high seas with the release of Alice’s Day at Sea. The first of 56 Alice comedies, Alice’s Day at Sea sets sail with a five-and-a-half-minute live-action introduction, as did the first six films in the …
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If it weren’t for the fact that Lillian Bounds began working at the Disney Brothers Studio on this day in 1924, the main mouse for The Walt Disney Company might have been named Mortimer. After all, when Walt asked her opinion of that name, she quickly disapproved, and thus “Mickey” was born. Lillian began work …
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