Hiya, folks! Today is a milestone in the history of The Walt Disney Company, because it is the birthday of Mickey Mouse. It was on this day in 1928 that the first Mickey Mouse cartoon short was released at the Colony Theatre in New York. This first synchronized sound cartoon is actually a parody, loosely …
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Before there was Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney created Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit, who appeared in a total of 26 cartoons between 1927 and 1928. The films were made for Charles Mintz, who contracted with Universal to handle distribution. Walt, however, would lose the rights to his rabbit character, and on this day in 1928, the …
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Hiya folks! On this day in 1928, Walt Disney Enterprises filed to trademark “Mickey Mouse” with the United States patent office, and to get more insight into this historic event, we turned to the CEO of Trademarkia.com, Raj Abhyanker, who is also an Intellectual Property attorney. “This is both a name mark and a logo …
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There is no copy today of Ride ’em Plowboy, an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon released on this day in 1928, but fortunately production materials and storyboards survive. We turned to animation expert and Oswald enthusiast expert David Gerstein for his analysis of the short. “Ride ’em Plowboy is a classic farmyard story with Oswald …
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As an inhabitant of the silent era, the mischievous Oswald the Lucky Rabbit didn’t, as animation scholar and frequent D23 contributor David Gerstein notes, have to “stop everything to play music on barrels and lily pads twice a minute.” To Gerstein, the silence was golden, giving animators more time to spend on gags and story. …
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It was on this day in 1928 that the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon short Neck ‘n’ Neck was released in theaters. When Oswald takes a lovely lady rabbit out for a ride in his old jalopy, he soon finds himself racing a chasing police car. When the film was released, Walt didn’t own Oswald …
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Although it didn’t happen on a mountaintop in Tennessee, it was on this day in 1927 that Fess Parker was born in Fort Worth, Texas, a man who would become synonymous with the “king of the wild frontier.” And incidentally, tomorrow marks the birthday of the real-life Davy Crockett, whom Fess portrayed beginning in 1954. …
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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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A year before the debut of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney had another series of animated shorts whose characters had already become audience favorites. Walt Disney’s series of silent Alice Comedies featured the title character Alice, a live-action actress who experienced all types of adventures in an animated world. Often joining Alice were the animated characters …
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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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