Mickey Mouse took the ... continue to set the cartoon world on its ears. Back in the good old days of the cinema, when sound was grainy and movies were in black and white, a feature film had ...

The earliest Walt Disney Studios animated shorts packed as much barnyard humor and crude slapstick as Disney's gagmen could shoehorn into eight minutes. After a few years of production, though ...

Mickey Mouse turns 87 this Wednesday. To celebrate Walt Disney’s beloved and iconic character, we’ve compiled 11 pictures of ... the studio lighting and black and white backgrounds that ...

This rubber hose and circle aesthetic that dominated early animation posed a problem for animators in the age of fuzzy black and white ... own cartoons. Sammond writes, “Mickey Mouse isn ...

Mickey Mouse. It was sold back in 1930. 1935: You might have noticed that all of the pictures from cartoons up to this point have been black and white. Well, on 23 February 1935, The Band Concert ...

Giving your mouse a squeaky voice is not copyrightable ... In Steamboat Willie, Mickey is portrayed in black and white, but Jenkins explains you don’t have to stick to a monochrome palette.

Or rather, the mouse. That’s right ... life in the public eye began in black-and-white on a steamboat. The animated short, Steamboat Willie, is the first cartoon with fully synchronised music ...