A report on Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Animation and The Walt Disney Company

Nr. 10 in the reworked second series of Stampfer's stroboscopic discs published by Trentsensky & Vieweg in 1833.

Concept art of Mickey from early 1928, from the collection of The Walt Disney Family Museum. The sketches are the earliest known drawings of the character.

Donald Duck is known for his fiery temper

A projecting praxinoscope, from 1882, here shown superimposing an animated figure on a separately projected background scene

Mickey's first appearance in Steamboat Willie (1928)

Donald Duck as he first appeared in The Wise Little Hen (1934)

Donald worked in a Nazi factory in Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)

Italian-Argentine cartoonist Quirino Cristiani showing the cut and articulated figure of his satirical character El Peludo (based on President Yrigoyen) patented in 1916 for the realization of his films, including the world's first animated feature film El Apóstol.

The original animation building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940

An example of traditional animation, a horse animated by rotoscoping from Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photos.

Walt (right) dressed as a gaucho next to Donald Duck on the companies' goodwill trip to South America in Argentina

Mickey Mouse, as he appears in the Paul Rudish years, and the modern era.

A clay animation scene from a Finnish television commercial

Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954

Mickey and Horace Horsecollar from the Mickey Mouse daily strip; created by Floyd Gottfredson and published December 1932

A 2D animation of two circles joined by a chain

Walt Disney at the grand opening of Disneyland on July 17, 1955

The silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head has become an iconic image.

Donald's house boat at Mickey's Toontown, Disneyland

World of Color hydrotechnics at Disney California Adventure creates the illusion of motion using 1,200 fountains with high-definition projections on mist screens.

The Sherman Brothers, who composed many of the Disney songs throughout the 1960s, in 2002

Walt Disney (1901–1966), the co-creator of Mickey Mouse and founder of The Walt Disney Company, was the original voice of Mickey.

Donald's footprints at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The prints were made during the celebration of Donald's 50th birthday.

Walt, then Florida Governor Hayden Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World

Mickey's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Donald Duck's Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

A view of downtown Celebration, Florida, a community that was planned by the Walt Disney Company.

The Disney Magic of the Disney Cruise Line at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

Team Disney Burbank, which houses the offices of Disney's CEO and several other senior corporate officials

Parade route in Tokyo Disneyland during COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.

20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of Disney

Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO and made Disney into a major film studio again.

Searchlight Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney

Disney's video streaming subscription service Disney+ was launched in 2019, which has a total of over 135 million subscriptions as of June 2022.

Mickey Mouse is an animated cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney, who originally voiced the character, and Ub Iwerks.

- Mickey Mouse

Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company.

- Donald Duck

The longtime mascot of The Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves.

- Mickey Mouse

Early on, the company established itself as a leader in the American animation industry, with the creation of the widely popular character Mickey Mouse, the company's mascot, and the start of animated films.

- The Walt Disney Company

Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald was included in TV Guides list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002, and has earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

- Donald Duck

Donald Duck appeared in comedic roles in animated cartoons.

- Donald Duck

Mickey generally appears alongside his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, his pet dog Pluto, his friends Donald Duck and Goofy, and his nemesis Pete, among others (see Mickey Mouse universe).

- Mickey Mouse

Electronic automata were popularized by Disney as animatronics.

- Animation

In 1928, Steamboat Willie, featuring Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, popularized film with synchronized sound and put Walt Disney's studio at the forefront of the animation industry.

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Several studios would introduce characters that would become very popular and would have long-lasting careers, including Walt Disney Productions' Goofy (1932) and Donald Duck (1934), Warner Bros. Cartoons' Looney Tunes characters like Porky Pig (1935), Daffy Duck (1937), Bugs Bunny (1938–1940), Tweety (1941–1942), Sylvester the Cat (1945), Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner (1949), Fleischer Studios/Paramount Cartoon Studios' Betty Boop (1930), Popeye (1933), Superman (1941) and Casper (1945), MGM cartoon studio's Tom and Jerry (1940) and Droopy, Walter Lantz Productions/Universal Studio Cartoons' Woody Woodpecker (1940), Terrytoons/20th Century Fox's Gandy Goose (1938), Dinky Duck (1939), Mighty Mouse (1942) and Heckle and Jeckle (1946) and United Artists' Pink Panther (1963).

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After hearing his voice again, Walt wanted to use it for a talking duck named Donald Duck, who would be the studio's new gag character.

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Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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1988 American live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman from Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?.

Bob Hoskins played the role of Eddie Valiant.

The plot incorporated the actual closing of Pacific Electric.

Judge Doom (played by Christopher Lloyd) threatens Roger Rabbit before introducing him to the dip. Mime artists, puppeteers, mannequins, and robotic arms were commonly used during filming to help the actors interact with "open air and imaginative cartoon characters".

Who Framed Roger Rabbit marks the first and only time in animation history that Disney's Mickey Mouse and Warner Bros.' Bugs Bunny (as well as Donald Duck and Daffy Duck) have ever officially appeared on-screen together. Warners agreed that their biggest cartoon stars, Bugs and Daffy, would each receive an equal amount of screen time as Disney's Mickey and Donald.

In a world co-populated by humans and cartoon characters, "toons" regularly interact with real people, act in animated shorts and films, and reside in an area at Los Angeles known as Toontown.

Joe Alaskey voiced Yosemite Sam (in place of Blanc), Wayne Allwine voiced Mickey Mouse, Tony Anselmo voiced Donald Duck (also voiced by Clarence Nash via archive recordings), Tony Pope voiced Goofy (also partially voiced by Bill Farmer ) and Disney's Big Bad Wolf, Mae Questel reprised her role of Betty Boop, Russi Taylor voiced Minnie Mouse and some birds, Pat Buttram, Jim Cummings (imitating Andy Devine), and Jim Gallant (imitating Walter Brennan) voiced Eddie's toon bullets, Les Perkins voiced Mr. Toad, Mary T. Radford voiced Hyacinth Hippo from Fantasia, Nancy Cartwright voiced the toon shoe, Cherry Davis voiced Woody Woodpecker, Peter Westy voiced Pinocchio, and Frank Welker voiced Dumbo.

Michael Eisner, then-CEO, and Roy E. Disney, vice chairman of The Walt Disney Company, felt the film was too risqué with adult themes and sexual references.