Mickey Mouse’s Lost Pirate Adventure
These storyboards from Morgan’s Ghost, drawn by Harry Reeves, Homer Brightman, and Roy Williams, help us visualize what this short may have looked like if it had been animated.
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Mickey Mouse Wore Green Shorts and Yellow Gloves In His Color Debut
Best known as something it isn’t, Mickey Mouse’s first color cartoon, The Band Concert, nevertheless changed Mickey’s and Donald’s careers forever.
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Discover the Secret Behind Mickey Mouse’s First Words
These vintage story sketches show Mickey Mouse’s speaking debut in the 1929 short, The Karnival Kid.
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Walt Disney Reminisces About Early Mickey Mouse Artwork
Before the storyboarding process was pioneered by the Disney Studios in the early 1930s, story sketches for an animated short were often drawn comic-book style with several panels to a page.
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Belgian Mickey Mouse Art From the Disney Archives Depicts Our Favorite Pal Cornered by Cats
Titled “La Vengeance des Chats” [“The Revenge of the Cats”], “Dessin de Theu” [Drawing of Theu] the illustration highlights a dubious (yet comical) feline attraction to everyone’s favorite mouse.
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Donald Duck Arrived in Print Three Years Ealier Than His On-Screen Appearance
The Walt Disney Archives showcases a rare instance when a character named Donald Duck appears in a storybook published earlier than the 1934 animated short The Wise Little Hen, where Donald Duck appeared for the first time.
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The Making of a Mickey Mouse Doll In 1930s Style
As the popularity of Mickey Mouse began to soar in the early 1930s, Walt and Roy were confronted with the challenge of meeting the explosive demand for engaging consumer products, while sustaining the creative integrity and consistent quality of their character merchandise.
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Unwrapping Mickey’s Birthdayland at Magic Kingdom
Mickey’s Birthdayland was meant to be a temporary land that occupied the approximate three-acre space adjacent to Fantasyland that’s currently part of Storybook Circus in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park.
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How a Man Called Walt Became Disney
Becoming Walt Disney, an original D23 Studios short film, traces the path of a one-of-a-kind storyteller from his youth in Marceline, Missouri, and his apprenticeship in Kansas City, Missouri, all the way to his arrival Los Angeles, California, in 1923.
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A Mickey Mouse Short We’re Sure You Don’t Have on a Treasures DVD
The ever-released short Spring Cleaning began development in 1933, as an ordinary “domestic type of picture” with Mickey and the gang.
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