"Daisy from Merlock. The Italian-produced comic ""PKNA – Paperinik New Adventures"" stars Donald Duck as ""Paperinik"", or ""Duck Avenger"", in his battles against new alien enemies: Evronian Empire, founded by emperor Evron. Donald Duck first appeared in the 1934 cartoon ""The Wise Little Hen"" which was part of the ""Silly Symphonies"" series of theatrical cartoon shorts. The film's release date of June 9 is officially recognized by the Walt Disney Company as Donald's birthday despite a couple of in-universe contradictions. Donald's appearance in the cartoon, as created by animator Dick Lundy, is similar to his modern look – the feather"
"and Osborne adapted the short film ""The Wise Little Hen"" (1934) into comic strip form. Their adaptation was published in newspapers between 16 September and 16 December, 1934. The most prominent character introduced in the film was Donald Duck, and Taliaferro was the first artist to depict him in comics. Taliaferro's depiction of Donald preceded Donald's appearances as a supporting character in the newspaper comic (under Floyd Gottfredson and Ted Osborne), the adaptation into a British comic strip by William A. Ward (in 1937), and the adaptation of Donald into a full-length Italian comic book by Federico Pedrocchi (in 1937)."
"Caballeros"" (1944), ""Make Mine Music"" (1946), ""Fun and Fancy Free"" (1947), ""Melody Time"" (1948), and ""The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad"" (1949) Starting in 1939, Kinney was promoted to the position of director for animated short films. He served as one of the main directors of the ""Donald Duck"" series, along with Jack King. The two directors shared responsibility for the series until King's retirement in 1948. Kinney directed the short film ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" (1943), which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The film was a wartime satire of Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi"
"in a version by Spike Jones, was released before this short. ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 15th Academy Awards. It was the only ""Donald Duck"" film to receive the honor, although eight other films were also nominated. In 1994, it was voted Number 22 of ""the 50 Greatest Cartoons"" of all time by members of the animation field. However, because of the propagandistic nature of the short, and the depiction of Donald Duck as a Nazi (albeit a deeply reluctant one), Disney kept the film out of general circulation after its"
"nervous breakdown. Then Donald wakes up to find that his experience was, in fact, a dream. At the end of the short, Donald looks to the Statue of Liberty and the American flag with renewed appreciation. ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" won the 1942 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" was also the first of two animated short films to be set during the War to win an Oscar, the other being Tom and Jerry's short film, ""The Yankee Doodle Mouse"". Other notable shorts from this period include a seven film mini-series that follows Donald's life in the U.S."
"the somewhat controversial Donald Duck cartoon, ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" (aired on January 1, 1943). Best known for portraying Donald Duck as a Nazi living in Germany, the cartoon also features caricatures of Benito Mussolini, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Herman Göring performing in an oompa-band marching past swastika clouds, bushes, windmills, fire hydrants, and telephone lines, among other things. Donald Duck, living in a house with a striking resemblance to Hitler, is shown to a swastika fence surrounding it, and swastika wallpaper, an alarm clock that gives the Nazi salute and with each number replaced by a swastika, a cuckoo"
"as well as for the Nobel Peace Prize. Friz Freleng, briefly assigned to work under Harman, returned to Schlesinger after his MGM contract expired in April 1939, and storyman Joseph Barbera was united with director William Hanna to co-direct cartoons for Rudolf Ising's unit. The partnership between Hanna and Barbera would last for more than six decades, until Hanna's death in 2001. The duo's first cartoon together was 1940's ""Puss Gets the Boot"", featuring an unnamed mouse's attempts to outwit a housecat named Jasper. Though released without fanfare, the short was financially and critically successful, earning an Academy Award nomination"
"instructions for viewers as well as a political commentary on the times. One of the most popular, ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" (1942) was a means of relieving the aggression against Hitler by making him a somewhat comical figure while showcasing the freedom America offered. Disney's ""Food Will Win the War"" (1942) attempts to make US citizens feel good by using US agriculture as a means of power. Also popular in the Soviet Union, the government produced such animated shorts as ""What Hitler Wants"", which depicts a devilish Hitler giving Russian factories to capitalists, enslaving and riding once-free Soviet citizens, but shows"
"had worked on back then, albeit the Warners' series gained more popularity than Avery's MGM cartoons. Avery's best known MGM character debuted in ""Dumb-Hounded"" (1943). Droopy (originally ""Happy Hound"") was a small, calm, slow-moving and slow-talking dog who always won out in the end, whatever difficulties he was presented with. He also created a series of risqué cartoons, beginning with ""Red Hot Riding Hood"" (also 1943), featuring a sexy female star who never had a set name but has been unofficially referred to as ""Red"" by fans. Her visual design and voice varied somewhat between shorts. Other Avery characters at"
"The Tortoise and the Hare (film) The Tortoise and the Hare is a 1935 American animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson. Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, it won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. This cartoon is also believed to be one of the inspirations for Bugs Bunny, who first appeared in 1940. Max Hare is the heavy favorite to win a major sporting event---he's cocky, athletic and incredibly fast. His challenger, Toby Tortoise, is teased and jeered for"
"Following his retirement from the screen, Oswald was seen in two cartoons wearing a jacket similar to Pooch's. It was suggested that the two Oswald shorts were initially designed to feature Pooch. Note: One source listed ""S.O.S. Icicle"" (May 8, 1933) as a separate cartoon, while another claimed it was a working title for ""Hot & Cold"". Pooch the Pup Pooch the Pup is a funny animal cartoon character, an anthropomorphic dog, appearing in Walter Lantz cartoons during the studio's black-and-white era, and is the first recurring character to be made by Walter Lantz. This character, however, only appeared in"
"term began appearing in the 1950s and the phenomenon has been noted in many different societal contexts. Walt Disney Pictures has made two animated versions of the story. The first was ""Chicken Little"", a 1943 animated short released during World War II as one of a series produced at the request of the U.S. government for the purpose of discrediting Nazism. It tells a variant of the parable in which Foxy Loxy takes the advice of a book on psychology (on the original 1943 cut, it is ""Mein Kampf"") by striking the least intelligent first. Dim-witted Chicken Little is convinced"
"cartoons had been produced by both Walt Disney and Charles Mintz. Lantz also started to experiment with color cartoons, and the first one, called Jolly Little Elves, was released in 1934. In 1935 Lantz made his studio independent from Universal Studios, and Universal Studios was now only the distributors of his cartoons, instead of the direct owners. In the 1940s Oswald began to lose popularity. Lantz and his staff worked on several ideas for possible new cartoon characters (among them Meany, Miny, and Moe and Baby-Face Mouse). Eventually one of these characters clicked; his name was Andy Panda, who aired"
"the character — the character's wardrobe was updated and her old-fashioned tastes and ways of life were de-emphasized, and she was sometimes given newer careers, such as a nurse or a bus driver. The idea of the cartoon Granny began with the ""Little Red Riding Hood"" character in spoofs of the story, first appearing as such in the 1937 animated short ""Little Red Walking Hood"" which featured Egghead, directed by Tex Avery. Subsequent appearances of a similar ""granny"" character included ""The Cagey Canary"" (1941), directed by Bob Clampett; ""Hiss and Make Up"" (1943), directed by Friz Freleng; and ""Hare Force"""
"Disney cartoons. Billy Bletcher parodied his own Disney performance in this cartoon, voicing Big Bad Wolf, just as he did in Walt Disney's Academy Award-winning classic, Three Little Pigs and its later spinoff, The Big Bad Wolf, the latter of which also incorporated the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Like other Bugs Bunny shorts released during World War II, this film features ""a more violent rabbit with a more sadistic and mocking agenda"". This was not the only depiction of Little Red Riding Hood in an animated short. Others include ""Little Red Riding Hood"" (1922) and ""The Big Bad"
"promote a healthy musculoskeletal system. German Shepherds have been featured in a wide range of media. In 1921 Strongheart became one of the earliest canine film stars, and was followed in 1922 by Rin Tin Tin, who is considered the most famous German Shepherd. Both have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. German Shepherds were used in the popular Canadian series ""The Littlest Hobo"". Batman's dog Ace the Bat-Hound appeared in the Batman comic books, initially in 1955, through 1964. Between 1964 and 2007, his appearances were sporadic. A German Shepherd named Inspector Rex is the star of an"
"poorly received series of ""The Captain and the Kids"" cartoons, the studio rehired Harman and Ising in 1939, and Ising created the studio's first successful animated character, Barney Bear. However, MGM's biggest cartoon stars would come in the form of the cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1940. The ""Tom and Jerry"" cartoons won seven Academy Awards between 1943 and 1953. In 1941, Tex Avery, another Schlesinger alumnus, joined the animation department. Avery gave the unit its image, with successes like ""Red Hot Riding Hood"", ""Swing Shift Cinderella"", and the ""Droopy"" series. Avery"
"the most published comic book character in the world outside of the superhero genre. Donald Duck rose to fame with his comedic roles in animated cartoons. Donald's first appearance was in 1934 in ""The Wise Little Hen"", but it was his second appearance in ""Orphan's Benefit"" which introduced him as a temperamental comic foil to Mickey Mouse. Throughout the next two decades, Donald appeared in over 150 theatrical films, several of which were recognized at the Academy Awards. In the 1930s, he typically appeared as part of a comic trio with Mickey and Goofy and was given his own film"
"shorts, ""Rhapsody in Rivets"" and ""The Magic Fluke"", and one Oscar-winning short, ""The Cat Concerto""—one ""Merrie Melodie"" short, Bugs Bunny starring in ""Rhapsody Rabbit"", one Woody Woodpecker short, ""Convict Concerto"" with solely story by Hugh Harman of Harman and Ising and one ""Looney Tunes"" short, ""Daffy's Rhapsody"". A Car-Tune Portrait A Car-Tune Portrait is a cartoon in the Color Classics series produced by Fleischer Studios. Released on June 26, 1937, the cartoon gives an imaginative take on Franz Liszt's ""Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"". The cartoon features a lion dressed up as a musical conductor, attempting to keep his orchestra of"
"Messmer imbued Felix the Cat with an instantly recognizable personality during the 1920s. In the 1930s, Walt Disney made character animation a particular focus of his animation studio, best showcased in productions such as ""Three Little Pigs"" (1933), ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" (1937), ""Pinocchio"" (1940), and ""Dumbo"" (1941). ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" was the ""first full length animated and musical feature"" in Technicolor. Disney animators such as Bill Tytla, Ub Iwerks, Grim Natwick, Fred Moore, Ward Kimball, Les Clark, John Sibley, Marc Davis, Wolfgang Reitherman, Hal King, Hamilton Luske, Norm Ferguson, Eric Larson, John Lounsbery, Milt"
"on April 14, 1934. In the next of the sequels, ""Three Little Wolves"" (1936), he was accompanied by three just-as-carnivorous sons. (These three sons were later reduced to just one who, in contrast to his father, was full of goodness and charm and a friend of the Three Little Pigs.) The fourth cartoon featuring the Three Little Pigs and the Wolf, ""The Practical Pig"", was released in 1939. During World War II, a final, propaganda cartoon followed, produced by The National Film Board of Canada: ""The Thrifty Pig"" (1941). At the end of each short, the Wolf is dealt with"
"was published in the December 2, 1894, ""Los Angeles Herald"". Using words that could easily be describing the character of Alfred E. Neuman, the paper reported that the ""comic red-headed urchin with a joyous grin all over his freckled face, whose phiz [face] is the trademark of the comedy, is so expressive of the rollicking and ridiculous that the New York Herald and the Evening Telegram have applied it to political cartoon purposes."" Elements of the plot of the play explain why the character has adult and childlike features, why the character is dressed as he is, and how he"
"Daffy Duck (who debuted in 1937's ""Porky's Duck Hunt""), Elmer Fudd (""Elmer's Candid Camera"", 1940), Bugs Bunny (""A Wild Hare"", 1940), and Tweety (""A Tale of Two Kitties"", 1942) would achieve star power. By 1942, the Schlesinger studio had surpassed Walt Disney Studios as the most successful producer of animated shorts. Warner Bros. bought Schlesinger's cartoon unit in 1944 and renamed it Warner Bros. Cartoons. However, senior management treated the unit with indifference, beginning with the installation of Edward Selzer as senior producer, whom the creative staff considered an interfering incompetent. Jack Warner had little regard for the company's short"
"It is, therefore, important to single out a handful of enemy leaders and load them down with the whole Decalogue of sins.” In World War I, the Kaiser drew much hate rhetoric and comic relief from the Allies. In World War II Adolf Hitler drew similar negative attention. This film helped relieve aggression through ridicule toward an icon that was the source of so much destruction. The cartoon was originally titled ""Donald Duck in Nuzi Land"", but the title was changed when the title song produced by Olliver Wallace became a sensational hit, titled ""Der Fuehrer’s Face"". The short film"
"Blitz Wolf Blitz Wolf is a 1942 anti-German World War II Hitler-parodying cartoon produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons but lost to another anti-German World War II parody ""Der Fuehrer's Face"", a Donald Duck cartoon. The plot is a parody of the Three Little Pigs, told from a Second World War anti-German propaganda perspective. In this cartoon, the pigs go to war against Adolf Wolf (Adolf Hitler), who is set on invading their country, Pigmania. The two pigs"
"While ""Donald's Ostrich"" was the first and only time that Hortense the Ostrich appeared in animation, she later appeared as a comic book character as Donald's pet. Her first comic appearance was in the first publication of the ""Donald Duck Annual"" in 1938. Donald's Ostrich Donald's Ostrich is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on December 10, 1937 by RKO Radio Pictures. It was the third film in the ""Donald Duck"" series of short films, although billed at the time as a ""Mickey Mouse"" cartoon. It was the first of the"
"for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) of 1940. On the strength of the Oscar nomination and public demand, Hanna and Barbera were assigned to direct more cat-and-mouse cartoons, soon christening the characters ""Tom and Jerry"". ""Puss Gets the Boot"" did not win the 1940 Academy Award for Best Cartoon, but another MGM cartoon, Rudolf Ising's ""The Milky Way"" did, making MGM the first studio to wrestle the Cartoon Academy Award away from Walt Disney. ""Tom and Jerry"" quickly became MGM's most valuable animated property. The shorts were successful at the box office, many licensed products (comic books, toys, etc.) were released"
"Films for Archival Preservation"". A print of the film was discovered by a British collector in a London film library in 1998 and was restored the same year. The film introduces the prototype for Julius the Cat, who would become Disney's first named, recurring character. A second American short film with the same title was also released in 1922 which starred Baby Peggy. 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"
"made a name as a songwriter, writing tunes such as the popular ""Hindustan"". With the advent of the talking film era, he worked increasingly for Hollywood film studios in the 1930s. In 1936 he joined Disney Studios, and quickly became one of the most important composers in the studio for animated short films. Wallace provided the music for 139 of these shorts. One of his best-known pieces is the song ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" from the 1942 Donald Duck propaganda cartoon. This parody of a Horst Wessel song was, mainly through the version by Spike Jones and His City Slickers, one"
"cartoons featuring Hunky and Spunky: ""Always Kickin<nowiki>'</nowiki>"" (1939), ""The Barnyard Brat"" (1939), ""A Kick in Time"" (1940), ""Snubbed by a Snob"" (1940), ""You Can't Shoe a Horsefly"" (1940), and ""Vitamin Hay"" (1941). The series ended in 1941 with ""Vitamin Hay"". After Famous Studios succeeded Fleischer Studios in 1942, they revived the Spunky character alone for three cartoons in their Noveltoons series, ""Yankee Doodle Donkey"" (1944), Boo Kind To Animals (1955) and ""Okey Dokey Donkey"" (1958), with the latter featuring a simplified drawing style. A positive contemporary review of ""Hunky and Spunky"" in ""Film Daily"" praised the short for introducing ""funny"
"in the short ""I Haven't Got a Hat"" (first released on March 2, 1935), directed by Friz Freleng. Studio head Leon Schlesinger suggested that Freleng do a cartoon version of the popular ""Our Gang"" films. Porky only has a minor role in the film, but the fat little stuttering pig quickly became popular. Porky's name came from two brothers who were childhood classmates of Freleng, nicknamed ""Porky"" and ""Piggy"". Since Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising had left the studio in 1933, taking the studio's star character Bosko with them, ""Looney Tunes"" had been kept afloat by cartoons featuring the bland"
"130 films, including ""The Band Concert"" (1935), ""Brave Little Tailor"" (1938), and ""Fantasia"" (1940). Mickey appeared primarily in short films, but also occasionally in feature-length films. Ten of Mickey's cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, one of which, ""Lend a Paw"", won the award in 1942. In 1978, Mickey became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Beginning in 1930, Mickey has also been featured extensively as a comic strip character. His self-titled newspaper strip, drawn primarily by Floyd Gottfredson, ran for 45 years. Mickey has also"
"the short subject. Hal Roach Studio specialized in this form. While Columbia was prolific, producing 190 Three Stooges releases, alone. These non-feature productions only went into decline in the 1950s when they were migrated to the television. As the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism rose in Germany, Adolf Hitler in popular culture became more common in the American film industry. ""Bosko's Picture Show"" became the first American cartoon to parody Hitler, however brief. ""Der Fuehrer's Face"" and ""Herr Meets Hare"" became cartoons to expand the parody of the Fuhrer. As Jews, the Three Stooges felt personally concerned for antisemitism"