"single test screening of the short ""Plane Crazy"", but it, and the second feature, ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"", failed to find a distributor. Following the 1927 sensation ""The Jazz Singer"", Disney used synchronized sound on the third short, ""Steamboat Willie"", to create the first post-produced sound cartoon. After the animation was complete, Disney signed a contract with the former executive of Universal Pictures, Pat Powers, to use the ""Powers Cinephone"" recording system; Cinephone became the new distributor for Disney's early sound cartoons, which soon became popular. To improve the quality of the music, Disney hired the professional composer and arranger Carl"
"an exclusive contract with Technicolor (through the end of 1935) to produce cartoons in color, beginning with ""Flowers and Trees"" (1932). Disney released cartoons through Powers' Celebrity Pictures (1928–1930), Columbia Pictures (1930–1932), and United Artists (1932–1937). The popularity of the Mickey Mouse series allowed Disney to plan for his first feature-length animation. The feature film ""Walt Before Mickey"", based on the book by Diane Disney Miller, featured these moments in the studio's history. Deciding to push the boundaries of animation even further, Disney began production of his first feature-length animated film in 1934. Taking three years to complete, ""Snow White"
"on story development alone, which proved its worth when the Disney studio released in 1933 the first-ever animated short to feature well-developed characters, ""Three Little Pigs"". In 1935, Tex Avery released his first film with Warner Brothers. Avery's style was notably fast-paced, violent, and satirical, with a slapstick sensibility. Many consider Walt Disney's 1937 ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" the first animated feature film, though at least seven films were released earlier. However, Disney's film was the first one completely made using hand-drawn animation. The previous seven films, of which only four survive, were made using cutout, silhouette or"
"animators, with storyboard artists who would detail the plots of Disney's films. By 1934, Disney had become dissatisfied with producing formulaic cartoon shorts, and began a four-year production of a feature-length cartoon, ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", based on the fairy tale. When news leaked out about the project, many in the film industry predicted it would bankrupt the company; industry insiders nicknamed it ""Disney's Folly"". The film, which was the first animated feature made in full color and sound, cost $1.5 million to producethree times over budget. To ensure the animation was as realistic as possible, Disney sent"
"Little Red Riding Hood (1922 film) Little Red Riding Hood (1922) is a Walt Disney short cartoon, and is a rendition of the traditional story of Little Red Riding Hood. The film is part of the Laugh-O-Grams series that was released in 1922. This is one of the first ever Walt Disney cartoons, and considered Disney's first attempt at animated storytelling. Rather than using animation cels, it was made mostly by photographing inked lines on paper. The film was considered to be lost for many years and it was listed in 1980 on the American Film Institute's ""10 Most Wanted"
"(1940), and """" (2004). Mickey's Service Station Mickey's Service Station is a 1935 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The film, which stars Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as car mechanics, The film was also the final black-and-white appearance of Donald, Goofy , and the penultimate animated black-and-white film produced by Disney after ""Mickey's Kangaroo"" which was released later the same year. ""Mickey's Service Station"" was directed by Ben Sharpsteen, who at the time, had directed only ""Silly Symphony"" shorts, and starred the voices of Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, and"
"that the cartoon started production as an Oswald entry. ""Plane Crazy"" (as well as ""Steamboat Willie"") has been released as part of the ""Walt Disney Treasures"" DVD collections twice: Plane Crazy Plane Crazy is an American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released in 1928 by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first creation of the character Mickey Mouse. It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, but failed to pick up a distributor. Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound"
"evolution of the fairy tale film. Some of the earliest short silent films from the Disney studio were based on fairy tales, and some fairy tales were adapted into shorts in the musical comedy series ""Silly Symphony"", such as ""Three Little Pigs"". Walt Disney's first feature-length film ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", released in 1937, was a ground-breaking film for fairy tales and, indeed, fantasy in general. Disney and his creative successors have returned to traditional and literary fairy tales numerous times with films such as ""Cinderella"" (1950), ""Sleeping Beauty"" (1959) and ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991). Disney's influence"
"using traditional animation. But as Snow White was also the first one to become successful and well-known within the English-speaking world, people tend to disregard the seven films. Following Snow White's release, Disney began to focus much of its productive force on feature-length films. Though Disney did continue to produce shorts throughout the century, Warner Brothers continued to focus on features. Color television was introduced to the US Market in 1954. In 1958, Hanna-Barbera released ""The Huckleberry Hound Show"", the first half-hour television program to feature only animation. Terrytoons released ""Tom Terrific"" the same year. In 1960, Hanna-Barbera released another"
"The Karnival Kid The Karnival Kid, also known as Carnival Days, is a 1929 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black and white by The Walt Disney Studio and released to theaters by Celebrity Productions. It is the ninth film in the ""Mickey Mouse"" film series, and the first in which Mickey speaks. (During his first eight appearances Mickey whistled, laughed, cried and otherwise vocally expressed himself.) Mickey's first spoken words were, ""Hot dogs! Hot dogs!"", the voice being provided by someone else other than Walt Disney. Besides Mickey, three other"
"Mickey's Orphans Mickey's Orphans is a 1931 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. The cartoon takes place during Christmas time and stars Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Pluto, who take in a group of disruptive kittens. It is directed by Burt Gillett and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey and Marcellite Garner as Minnie. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 5th Academy Awards in 1932, the award's inaugural year. It lost to another Disney film, ""Flowers and Trees"", Disney's first color"
"(1951), ""Peter Pan"" (1953), ""Lady and the Tramp"" (1955), ""Sleeping Beauty"" (1959), ""One Hundred and One Dalmatians"" (1961), ""The Jungle Book"" (1967), ""The Aristocats"" (1970), ""The Rescuers"" (1977), and ""The Fox and the Hound"" (1981). The animation for ""The Black Cauldron"" (1985) was the last to be completed at the site. The Animation Building initially served as the creative and administrative nucleus for the entire studio. Walt's brother Roy O. Disney, who ran the company's financial operations, shared a wing with the accounting and legal departments on the first floor, which was where the animators, in-betweeners and clean-up artists worked."
"Brave Little Tailor Brave Little Tailor is a 1938 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon is an adaptation of the fairy tale ""The Valiant Little Tailor"" with Mickey Mouse in the title role. The film was directed by Bill Roberts and features original music by Albert Hay Malotte. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey, Marcellite Garner as Minnie, and Eddie Holden as the Giant. ""Brave Little Tailor"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 11th Academy Awards in 1939, but lost"
"Alice's Wonderland Alice's Wonderland is a 1923 Walt Disney short silent film, produced in Kansas City, Missouri. The black-and-white short was the first in a series of Walt Disney's famous ""Alice Comedies"" and had a working title of ""Alice in Slumberland"". The film was never shown theatrically, but was instead shown to prospective film distributors. It was included as a bonus feature in the Special ""Un-Anniversary Edition"" of ""Alice in Wonderland"". Alice (Virginia Davis) visits the Walt Disney Animation Studios, where the animators (including Walt Disney) show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat"
"was ""Gertie the Dinosaur"" (1914) by Winsor McCay. It is considered the first example of true character animation. At first, animated cartoons were black-and-white and silent. Felix the Cat and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit are notable examples. From the 1920s to 1960s, theatrical cartoons were produced in huge numbers, and usually shown before a feature film in a movie theater. Disney (distributed by Pat Powers, then Columbia, then United Artists, then RKO, then independently), Fleischer (distributed by Paramount), Warner Bros., MGM, and UPA (distributed by Columbia) were the largest studios producing these 5- to 10-minute ""shorts."" Other studios included Walter"
"The Small One The Small One is a 1978 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released theatrically by Buena Vista Distribution on December 16, 1978 with a Christmas 1978 re-issue of ""Pinocchio"". The story is based on a children's book of the same name by Charles Tazewell and was an experiment for the new generation of Disney animators including Don Bluth, Richard Rich, Henry Selick, Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy. The story tells of a young boy, outside Nazareth, who must part with his best friend, an old donkey named Small One. He brings it to"
"Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons was a Walt Disney animated film released in the United States on May 19, 1937, for a limited time to help promote the upcoming release of ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". It was a collection of five Oscar-winning ""Silly Symphonies"" shorts, bridged together with title cards and a narrator. Like ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"", each of the cartoons had been released on its own at first before being collected together as one film. The separate cartoon shorts are now available on DVD."
"duckling has now joined the conga line as the camera irises out on him. Lucky Ducky (film) Lucky Ducky is a 1948 American animated cartoon from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Tex Avery, animated by Walt Clinton (here credited as Walter Clinton), Preston Blair, Louie Schmitt, and Grant Simmons, and musical direction by Scott Bradley. This short was originally in development as a ""George and Junior"" entry, but was ultimately produced with two random dog characters. This is the last MGM cartoon in black and white, and this is the only gag in black and white. The foreword of the"
"of effort by Disney studios. Walt Disney was convinced that short cartoons would not keep his studio profitable in the long run, so he took what was seen as an enormous gamble. The critics predicted that ""Snow White"" would result in financial ruin for the studio. They said that the colors would be too bright for the audience and they would get sick of the gags and leave. However, the critics were proven wrong. ""Snow White"" was a worldwide box office success, and was universally acclaimed as a landmark in the development of animation as a serious art form. After"
"scene during its first release. Disney then directed Winkler Studios, his distributor, to cut the scene from any further U.S. releases. The only remnant of the scene in the United States is two frames in which Pete’s whiskey bottle is still visible. Alice Solves the Puzzle Alice Solves the Puzzle is a 1925 animated short film produced and directed by Walt Disney in the Alice Comedies series, notable for being the first film to feature Pete, the longest-recurring Disney character. The film is also notable for being one of the first animated films to have been heavily censored. A girl"
"format. The Small One The Small One is a 1978 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released theatrically by Buena Vista Distribution on December 16, 1978 with a Christmas 1978 re-issue of ""Pinocchio"". The story is based on a children's book of the same name by Charles Tazewell and was an experiment for the new generation of Disney animators including Don Bluth, Richard Rich, Henry Selick, Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy. The story tells of a young boy, outside Nazareth, who must part with his best friend, an old donkey named Small One. He brings it"
"Walt Disney Studios is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Walt Disney Productions began production of their first feature-length animated film in 1934. Taking three years to complete, ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"", premiered in December 1937 and became the highest-grossing film of that time by 1939. In the 1940s, Disney began experimenting with full-length live-action films, with the introduction of hybrid live action-animated films such as ""The Reluctant Dragon"" (1941) and ""Song of the South"" (1946). That same decade, the studio began producing nature documentaries with the release of ""Seal Island"" (1948), the first"
"Award for Animated Short Film because of its impressive visual power. Although ""Snow White"" had been largely finished by the time the multiplane camera had been completed, Disney ordered some scenes be re-drawn to use the new effects. ""Snow White"" premiered in December 1937 to high praise from critics and audiences. The film became the most successful motion picture of 1938 and by May 1939 its total gross of $6.5 million made it the most successful sound film made to that date. Disney won another Honorary Academy Award, which consisted of one full-sized and seven miniature Oscar statuettes. The success"
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, it is the first full-length cel animated feature film and the earliest Disney animated feature film. The story was adapted by storyboard artists Dorothy Ann Blank, Richard Creedon, Merrill De Maris, Otto Englander, Earl Hurd, Dick Rickard, Ted Sears and Webb Smith. David Hand was the supervising director, while William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce"
"couple of jazz tunes (the second of which is ""Tiger Rag)"". The other features calliope music which is used throughout the entire film, as well as some footage played in reverse. The short is available in a 2-disc DVD title as part of the . Bright Lights (1928 film) Bright Lights is a 1928 silent cartoon short by Walt Disney Productions featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It is among the few short films of the series Disney worked on before leaving that same year. Previously in 1927, Oswald had an oval face, a chubbier waist, and pants with a single"
"Mickey's Garden Mickey's Garden is a 1935 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The film was the second ""Mickey Mouse"" cartoon shot in Technicolor (after ""The Band Concert"") and is also the first color appearance of Pluto. The cartoon is also the first color cartoon where Mickey speaks (though he only does so at the end when Pluto starts licking him). The film's plot centers on Mickey Mouse trying to rid his garden of insects, but they keep coming back. When he accidentally gets hit with his own bug spray, he begins"
"Mickey's Service Station Mickey's Service Station is a 1935 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The film, which stars Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as car mechanics, The film was also the final black-and-white appearance of Donald, Goofy , and the penultimate animated black-and-white film produced by Disney after ""Mickey's Kangaroo"" which was released later the same year. ""Mickey's Service Station"" was directed by Ben Sharpsteen, who at the time, had directed only ""Silly Symphony"" shorts, and starred the voices of Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, and Billy Bletcher. The cartoon"
"cliff and awakes back in her bed. The eighth episode of the 2014 Cartoon Network miniseries ""Over the Garden Wall"", entitled ""Babes in the Wood"", contains several direct visual references to ""Alice's Wonderland"", including the Reception Committee scene. Alice's Wonderland Alice's Wonderland is a 1923 Walt Disney short silent film, produced in Kansas City, Missouri. The black-and-white short was the first in a series of Walt Disney's famous ""Alice Comedies"" and had a working title of ""Alice in Slumberland"". The film was never shown theatrically, but was instead shown to prospective film distributors. It was included as a bonus feature"
"created the first animated feature ever made, ""El Apóstol"", utilizing cutout animation; however, a fire that destroyed producer Federico Valle's film studio incinerated the only known copy of the film, and it is now considered lost. In 1937, Disney created the first sound and color animated feature film, ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"". The name ""animated cartoon"" is generally not used when referring to full-length animated productions, since the term more or less implies a ""short."" Huge numbers of animated feature films were, and are still, produced. Competition from television drew audiences away from movie theaters in the late"
"majority of which are various implements of destruction such as saws, hammers, and toy weapons. The kittens go to work and destroy the piano and other furniture. Finally Mickey and Minnie reveal their Christmas tree, but the kittens remove all the decorations and foliage. Mickey's Orphans Mickey's Orphans is a 1931 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. The cartoon takes place during Christmas time and stars Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Pluto, who take in a group of disruptive kittens. It is directed by Burt Gillett and features the voices of Walt"
"by Walter Ruttman, Hans Richter, and Oskar Fischinger, however, the Nazis censorship against so-called ""degenerate art"" prevented the abstract animation from developing after 1933. The earliest surviving animated feature film is the 1926 silhouette-animated ""Adventures of Prince Achmed"", which used colour-tinted film. It was directed by German Lotte Reiniger and French/Hungarian Berthold Bartosch. In 1923, a studio called Laugh-O-Grams went bankrupt and its owner, Walt Disney, opened a new studio in Los Angeles. Disney's first project was the ""Alice Comedies"" series, which featured a live action girl interacting with numerous cartoon characters. Disney's first notable breakthrough was 1928's ""Steamboat Willie"","
"Plane Crazy Plane Crazy is an American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released in 1928 by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first creation of the character Mickey Mouse. It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, but failed to pick up a distributor. Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound cartoon, ""Steamboat Willie"", which was an enormous success. Following this, ""Plane Crazy"" was released as a sound cartoon on March 17, 1929. It was the fourth Mickey film to"
"7 Wise Dwarfs 7 Wise Dwarfs (aka Seven Wise Dwarfs and Walt Disney's 7 Wise Dwarfs) is a 1941 four-minute educational short animated film made by the Walt Disney Studios, for the National Film Board of Canada. The film was released theatrically on December 12, 1941 as part of a series of four films directed at the Canadian public to learn about war bonds during the Second World War. ""7 Wise Dwarfs"" was directed by Richard Lyford and featured the voice talent of Pinto Colvig as ""Doc"". ""7 Wise Dwarfs"" features the seven dwarfs from Disney's ""Snow White and the"