"a rat (the latter being Gottfredson's own interpretation), but his ears suggest that he is rather an anthropomorphic canine. He first appeared in the comic strip adventure ""Mickey Mouse in Death Valley"", the first real Mickey Mouse continuity, which was partially written by Walt Disney and drawn by Win Smith and other artists, before being taken over by Floyd Gottfredson (plot and art). In this story, Sylvester Shyster was a crooked lawyer who attempted, with the help of his henchman Pete, to deprive Minnie Mouse of her inheritance. Shyster and Pete have been causing trouble for Mickey and his friends"
"Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable characters. Created as a replacement for a prior Disney character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Mickey first appeared in the short ""Plane Crazy"", debuting publicly in the short film ""Steamboat Willie"" (1928), one of the first sound cartoons. He went on to appear in over"
"Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 (""Plane Crazy"") to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and character animation, and also introduced well-known characters such as Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy. The name ""Mickey Mouse"" was first used in the films' title sequences to refer specifically to the character, but"
"remain with him. To replace Oswald, Disney and Iwerks developed Mickey Mouse, possibly inspired by a pet mouse that Disney had adopted while working in his Laugh-O-Gram studio, although the origins of the character are unclear. Disney's original choice of name was Mortimer Mouse, but Lillian thought it too pompous, and suggested Mickey instead. Iwerks revised Disney's provisional sketches to make the character easier to animate, and Disney provided Mickey's voice until 1947. In the words of one Disney employee, ""Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul."" Mickey Mouse first appeared in May 1928 as a"
"in February 1928, due to a legal loophole, when Winkler's husband Charles Mintz took over their distribution company. After failing to take over the Disney Studio, Mintz hired away four of Disney's primary animators (the exception being Ub Iwerks) to start his own animation studio, Snappy Comedies. In 1928, to recover from the loss of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Disney came up with the idea of a mouse character named Mortimer while on a train headed to California, drawing up a few simple drawings. The mouse was later renamed Mickey Mouse (Disney's wife, Lillian, disliked the sound of 'Mortimer Mouse')"
"was originally going to be named Mortimer. Lillian Disney, Walt's wife, suggested the name Mickey instead. The first Mortimer was created by Walt Disney and Floyd Gottfredson for the comics. He was Minnie Mouse's ranch-owning cattleman uncle. He first appeared in the serial ""Mickey Mouse in Death Valley"" (1930). After that, he appeared or was referenced in many other Mickey Mouse comic strip adventures in the 1930s. He has occasionally appeared in more modern comics. In the 1936 cartoon short ""Mickey's Rival"", the second Mortimer was introduced as Mickey's competitor for Minnie's affections. In the comics, this Mortimer was briefly"
"Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (also The Floyd Gottfredson Library) is a series of books collecting the span of work by Floyd Gottfredson on the daily Mickey Mouse comic strip. The strips are reproduced from Disney proof sheets and artwork from private collections. The strip debuted on January 13, 1930, and was initially written by Walt Disney and drawn first by Ub Iwerks, then by Win Smith. Gottfredson took over the strip when Disney and Smith found themselves too busy, and he continued with it until 1975. These volumes start with Gottfredson's work from April 1, 1930,"
"Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. She and Mickey Mouse were first drawn by Ub Iwerks in 1928. The comic strip story ""The Gleam"" (published January 19–May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse, although this is seldom used. The comic strip story ""Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers"" (published September 22–December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and"
"Minnie Mouse Minnie Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney. She and Mickey Mouse were first drawn by Ub Iwerks in 1928. The comic strip story ""The Gleam"" (published January 19–May 2, 1942) by Merrill De Maris and Floyd Gottfredson first gave her full name as Minerva Mouse, although this is seldom used. The comic strip story ""Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers"" (published September 22–December 26, 1930) introduced her father Marcus Mouse and her unnamed mother, both farmers. The same story featured photographs of Minnie's uncle Milton Mouse with his family and"
"was used from 1935 to 1953 to refer to the series itself as in ""Walt Disney presents a Mickey Mouse."" In this sense ""a Mickey Mouse"" was a shortened form of ""a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon"" which was used in the earliest films. Films from 1929 to 1935 which were re-released during this time also used this naming convention, but it was not used for the three shorts released between 1983 and 1995 (""Mickey's Christmas Carol"", ""The Prince and the Pauper"", and ""Runaway Brain""). Mickey's name was also used occasionally to market other films which were formally part of other"
"of frogs, dogs, and cats, but none of these appealed to Disney. A female cow and male horse were created at this time by Iwerks, but were also rejected. They would later turn up as Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar. Ub Iwerks eventually got inspiration from an old drawing. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. Then, on a train ride back from a failed business meeting, Walt Disney came up with the original sketch for the character that would eventually be called Mickey Mouse. Afterwards, Disney took the sketch to Iwerks."
"working at the Walt Disney Studio at the time. Sewell was one of the few employees who stayed after the loss of Oswald. After losing Oswald, Disney created the idea for a cartoon character known as Mickey Mouse. The first Mickey Mouse cartoon was created by a small group of Disney employees. Sewell, Bounds, and Edna Disney were responsible for inking and painting the cels used for the first Mickey Mouse cartoon ever created. The cartoon was titled ""Plane Crazy"" and it was released in 1928. While ""Plane Crazy"" struggled to achieve success, the creation of Mickey Mouse led to"
"New Mickey Mouse Club, then from 1989–1996 as The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (also known to fans as MMC from 1993–1996) airing exclusively on cable television's The Disney Channel, and again in 2017 with the moniker Club Mickey Mouse airing exclusively on internet social media. Mickey Mouse himself appeared in every show not only in vintage cartoons originally made for theatrical release but in opening, interstitial, and closing segments made especially for the show. In both the vintage cartoons and new animated segments, Mickey was voiced by his creator Walt Disney. (Disney had previously voiced the character theatrically from 1928"
"mouse named Kit Colby who sported a fedora and a fluffy collared leather jacket, and the rest of the team included a chameleon, an earlier version of Gadget, and a character resembling Monterey Jack with a different name. When he proposed the show in a meeting with Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the idea was well received except for the character of Kit. At Eisner's suggestion, they replaced him with the chipmunk duo to give the show some established Disney characters to work with. By late 1987, two years before its television debut, the show was announced under its original"
"Jerry Mouse Jerry Mouse is a fictional character and one of the title characters (the other being Tom Cat) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of ""Tom and Jerry"" theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic house mouse, who first appeared as a mouse named Jinx in the 1940 MGM animated short ""Puss Gets the Boot"". Hanna gave the mouse's original name as ""Jinx"", while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance. The name ""Jerry"" was chosen by MGM animator John Carr, who submitted ""Tom and Jerry"" as potential names for"
"Jerry Mouse Jerry Mouse is a fictional character and one of the title characters (the other being Tom Cat) in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of ""Tom and Jerry"" theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic house mouse, who first appeared as a mouse named Jinx in the 1940 MGM animated short ""Puss Gets the Boot"". Hanna gave the mouse's original name as ""Jinx"", while Barbera claimed the mouse went unnamed in his first appearance. The name ""Jerry"" was chosen by MGM animator John Carr, who submitted ""Tom and Jerry"" as potential names for"
"appeared in the Italian fantasy comic saga ""Wizards of Mickey"". In 1958, Mickey Mouse was introduced to the Arab world through another comic book called “Sameer”. He became very popular in Egypt and got a comic book with his name. Mickey’s comics in Egypt are licensed by Disney and were published since 1959 by “Dar Al-Hilal” and they were success, however Dar Al-Hilal stopped the publication in 2003 because of problems with Disney. The comics were re-released by ""Nahdat Masr"" in 2004 and the first issues were sold out in less than 8 hours. Since his early years, Mickey Mouse"
"prized possessions is the first drawing of Mickey Mouse, by Ub Iwerks for the character's film debut in ""Plane Crazy"" (1928). Begun in 1974, the Hall of Fame was renamed the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame in 1997 after a sponsorship was provided by the Hearst Foundation. The 31 inductees, chosen by non-cartoonist authorities, are: National Cartoon Museum The National Cartoon Museum was an American museum dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of cartoons, comic strips and animation. It was the brainchild of Mort Walker, creator of ""Beetle Bailey"". The museum opened in 1974, went through several"
"The Talking Mickey Mouse The Talking Mickey Mouse was an animated character toy, created by Worlds of Wonder in 1986, and based on the Disney character Mickey Mouse. Worlds of Wonder also created the animated bear toy Teddy Ruxpin. The Mickey Mouse toy would move its eyes, nose, and jaw to a pre-recorded cassette tape in the toy's back, specially coded with animation signals. The toy tells stories of Mickey's travels to foreign countries with his pal, Goofy. The cassettes included a book to follow along. Often, Mickey and Goofy are put into the mode of being detectives, when they"
"November 1928, as a replacement to compete with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks created Mickey Mouse for the Walt Disney Studio. In 2003, Buena Vista Games pitched a concept for an Oswald-themed video game to Disney President and COO Bob Iger, who then became committed to bringing Oswald back to Disney. In 2006, nearly 80 years after the Disney studio broke away from Universal, The Walt Disney Company managed to acquire the intellectual property of Oswald and the catalog of Disney-produced Oswald films (with NBCUniversal effectively trading Oswald for the services of Al Michaels as play-by-play"
"Disney always said that he had changed the name from ""Mortimer Mouse"" to ""Mickey Mouse"" on the suggestion of his wife. The series was very popular in its day, often rivaling Hal Roach's Our Gang series. In fact, it was the only Our Gang series rival to make a successful transition into the talkies. The films were later distributed well into the 1940s, but were rarely shown on television. Therefore, the series is all but forgotten today. The series had a wide variety of interesting characters, many of which were created by Fontaine Fox. The characters lived in a town"
"past"". The only film not included in this collection was the subsequently released ""Get a Horse!"" (2013) which first premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and was shown ahead of ""Frozen"". Mickey Mouse (film series) Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of 130 animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 (""Plane Crazy"") to 1953 with four additional shorts released between 1983 and 2013. The series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and"
"Merrill De Maris Merrill De Maris (February 26, 1898, New Jersey – December 31, 1948, Escondido, California) was an American writer who worked on Disney Comic Strips for King Features Syndicate. De Maris helped Floyd Gottfredson with many of his early Mickey Mouse comic strips; they co-created famous characters like Phantom Blot, Chief O'Hara and Detective Casey. In 1942 they gave Minnie Mouse a full name as Minerva Mouse, for the four-month comic strip story ""The Gleam"". He also helped Carl Barks with one of his Donald Duck stories, titled ""Too Many Pets"". De Maris also participated at the Disney"
"manager and treasurer, Clifford Funk, initially the secretary, and Rene Grove, principal artist and designer, and Elias Klahr, investor. (source financial records) The company had a catalog of around 40 different toys, all of them distributed by the George Borgfeldt Company, including its most popular doll, a black and white mouse named ""Micky"" (US Patent #D70,840, received on August 17, 1926). Rene Grove's younger brother, Larry Grove worked at the factory. After the mouse was created, Performo had a ""Name the Mouse"" contest. Larry submitted the name Micky and won the contest. Mickey Mouse is one of the most loved"
"Mickey's 50 Mickey's 50 is a 1978 television special honouring the 50-year anniversary of the debut of Walt Disney's animated character Mickey Mouse. The show aired on NBC on November 19, 1978, one day after Mickey's official birthday, as a special 90-minute edition of ""The Wonderful World of Disney"". This show covers the history and career of Mickey Mouse from his humble beginnings in the first Disney sound cartoon ""Steamboat Willie"" to his popularity in the 1930s, his presence on television through ""The Mickey Mouse Club"", and his role as the official host of Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Also"
"The Mickey Mouse Club The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned in 2017 to social media. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney Productions, the program was first televised for four seasons, from 1955 to 1959, by ABC. This original run featured a regular but ever-changing cast of mostly teen performers. ABC broadcast reruns weekday afternoons during the 1958–1959 season, airing right after ""American Bandstand"". The show was revived three times after its initial 1955–1959 run on ABC, first from 1977–1979 for first-run syndication as The"
"Mickey Mouse cartoons credited them as ""A Walt Disney Comic, drawn by Ub Iwerks"". Later Disney Company reissues of the early cartoons tend to credit Walt Disney alone. Disney and his remaining staff continued the production of the Mickey series, and he was able to eventually find a number of animators to replace Iwerks. As the Great Depression progressed and Felix the Cat faded from the movie screen, Mickey's popularity would rise, and by 1932 The Mickey Mouse Club would have one million members. At the 5th Academy Awards in 1932, Mickey received his first Academy Award nomination, received for"
"""Mickey's Orphans"" (1931). Walt Disney also received an honorary Academy Award for the creation of Mickey Mouse. Despite being eclipsed by the Silly Symphonies short the ""Three Little Pigs"" in 1933, Mickey still maintained great popularity among theater audiences too, until 1935, when polls showed that Popeye was more popular than Mickey. By 1934, Mickey merchandise had earned $600,000.00 a year. In 1935, Disney began to phase out the Mickey Mouse Clubs, due to administration problems. About this time, story artists at Disney were finding it increasingly difficult to write material for Mickey. As he had developed into a role"
"the third of the Mickey Mouse series. The short film showed an anthropomorphic mouse named Mickey neglecting his work on a steamboat to instead make music using the animals aboard the boat. Even though many wrongly believe Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon with synchronized sound, since May 1924 and continuing through September 1926, Dave and Max Fleischer's Inkwell Studios produced 19 sound cartoons, part of the Song Car-Tunes series, using the Phonofilm ""sound-on-film"" process. In 1933, Warner Brothers Cartoons was founded. While Disney's studio was known for its releases being strictly controlled by Walt Disney himself, Warner brothers allowed"
"Disney's House of Mouse Disney's House of Mouse is an American animated television series, produced by Walt Disney Television Animation (now Disney Television Animation), that originally aired for three seasons from 13 January 2001, to its finale on 24 October 2003. The show focuses on Mickey Mouse and his friends running a cartoon theater dinner club in the fictional Toontown, catering to many characters from Disney cartoons and animated movies while showcasing a variety of their cartoon shorts. The animated series is a spin off of the popular short-lived Disney series ""Mickey Mouse Works"", and featured many Mouse Works shorts"
"popularity Mickey Mouse had. The original title cards to the shorts released by Celebrity Productions and Columbia Pictures were all redrawn after Walt Disney stopped distributing his cartoons through them. Meanwhile, more competition spread for Disney after Max Fleischer's flapper cartoon character Betty Boop began to gain more and more popularity after starring in the cartoon Minnie the Moocher; by August 1932, Betty Boop even became so popular, that the Talkartoon series was renamed as Betty Boop cartoons. In 1932, after falling out with Columbia Pictures, Disney began distributing his products through United Artists. UA refused to distribute the ""Silly"
"conceived originally by Paul Terry. Created as a parody of Superman, he first appeared in 1942 in a theatrical animated short titled ""The Mouse of Tomorrow"". Originally named Super Mouse, after seven films in 1942–43, he was renamed Mighty Mouse for ""The Wreck of the Hesperus"" (1944), after Paul Terry learned that another character named ""Super Mouse"" was to be published by Marvel Comics. Beginning in 1945, some Mighty Mouse episodes had operatic dialogue, and he was drawn slightly differently. Both changes attempted to take advantage of the growing popularity of singer and actor Mario Lanza, beginning with ""Mighty Mouse"
"be the one to receive credit for the creation of Mickey Mouse. In 1928, ""Plane Crazy"" became the first entry into the Mickey Mouse series; however, it was not released because of a poor reaction from test screenings and failed to gain a distributor. The second Mickey Mouse cartoon ""The Gallopin' Gaucho"" also failed to gain attention of the audience and a distributor. Disney knew what was missing: sound. Sound film had been captivating audiences since 1927 with ""The Jazz Singer"" and Walt decided that the next cartoon ""Steamboat Willie"" would have sound. ""Steamboat Willie"" was not the first sound"