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Goofy was created as a human-type character (he wears clothes, walks upright, etc.), while Pluto was created simply as a dog.
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All Aboard with Mickey: Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip
By Jim Fanning On November 1, 1940, Mickey Mouse first sported a straw hat, twirled a cane and whistled a happy traveling tune as he waited at the Burbank, California train depot (presumably not far from the newly opened Walt Disney Studios on Buena Vista Street in that same city) to start a jaunty train …
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Unraveling Pluto’s Sweater
Film Historian and Author J.B. Kaufman (Pinocchio: The Making of the Disney Epic) makes the Dog Days of Summer a little cooler with his look back at the making of the 1949 short Pluto’s Sweater. Recently, in the course of some other research, I made an interesting Pluto discovery. Pluto’s Sweater (1949), one of dozens …
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Walt Disney’s Pluto
An authentic dog star in the Disney galaxy, Pluto has been “best in show” ever since he first sniffed out stardom in 1930. Walt was inspired to create Disney’s top dog by remembering the personable pooches he met while living on the farm in his childhood home of Marceline, Missouri. Ever since Pluto has, as …
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John Lounsbery
John Lounsbery had his own special way of looking at things, according to fellow animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. In their book, Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, they wrote that no matter how bad a situation might be, John could always make “some funny observation to lighten the situation.” And while shy by …
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NBC Airs Disney’s Totally Minnie
In 1988, Suzanne Somers took a break from her starring role in TV’s She’s the Sheriff to co-star with Minnie Mouse in the totally hip, totally cool Totally Minnie TV special which aired on this day in 1988. When Maxwell Dweeb, a complete nerd portrayed by Robert Carradine, realizes he needs some help, he sets …
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Pluto’s Christmas Tree is Released
With Christmas just around the corner, it was on this day in 1952 that the Mickey Mouse cartoon short Pluto’s Christmas Tree was released in theaters. When Mickey chops down a choice Christmas tree, he is completely unaware that, much to Pluto’s dismay, it houses Chip ‘n’ Dale. But, when Minnie, Donald, and Goofy come …
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Pluto’s Party Premieres
All Pluto wants for his birthday is to have a piece of his delicious-looking birthday cake in Pluto’s Party, which was released on this day in 1952. Instead, he gets pushed around by his rambunctious guests who also manage to devour all of his cake. When Mickey announces all of the names he mentions Huey, …
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Camp Dog is Released
On this day in 1950, that ravenous coyote Bent-Tail returned to the big screen in the Pluto cartoon short Camp Dog. While campers are away, Pluto has his hands, or paws, full trying to protect a campsite and thwart the food-stealing plans of the father/son coyote team. Bent-Tail, who appeared in a total of four …
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