The story of Cock Robin was published as early as 1744 in an English songbook as Death and Burial of Poor Cock Robin, which ends with all the birds of the air “a-sighing and a-sobbing, when they heard the bell toll” at his funeral. This may seem like an odd choice for a Walt Disney …

The 1935 Silly Symphony Water Babies splashed onto screens on this day, allowing viewers to peek in on an entire typical day of the water babies in just over eight minutes. Starting at the moment the adorable kewpie-like kids awake on their lily pads, and ending when they return to sleep, the lovable creatures are …

Mickey is happily building Pluto’s doghouse when a box from Australia arrives containing a boxing kangaroo named Hoppy (and, as it turns out, her son, Joey). While Mickey initially takes pleasure in teaching Hoppy how to box, Pluto is not having as swell of a time (his thoughts are spoken out loud in the short). …

The Mickey Mouse Daily Comic strip first appeared in the Kings Features newspapers on January 13, 1930 and featured Mickey Mouse doing everything from learning to fly to taming snakes. In this strip, Mickey is tasked with selling newspapers to save his business and enlists the help of paperboy Donald Duck to come to the …

Just sit right back, and you’ll hear a tale of what happened on this day in 1935. The Mickey Mouse cartoon short Mickey’s Man Friday sailed into theaters, telling the story of what happens when Mickey finds himself at sea and then lands on an island of cannibal natives. When one of the inhabitants is …

Not all of Walt Disney’s stories were derived from the last 20 centuries. In fact, one Academy Award® winner was shelled out somewhere between 620 and 560 BC. Aesop’s Fables were written by the famous storyteller in ancient Greece, telling morally educational stories such as The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Ant and the Grasshopper, and …