A report on Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Animation and Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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

Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney

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

Bob Hoskins played the role of Eddie Valiant.

Mickey's first appearance in Steamboat Willie (1928)

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

The plot incorporated the actual closing of Pacific Electric.

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.

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".

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

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.

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

A clay animation scene from a Finnish television commercial

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

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.

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.

Mickey's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Donald Duck's Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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

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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.

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Donald Duck appeared in comedic roles in animated cartoons.

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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).

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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.

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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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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.

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But in 1988, the two rivals finally shared screen time in the Robert Zemeckis Disney/Amblin film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Donald has a piano duel scene with his Warner Brothers counterpart Daffy Duck voiced by Mel Blanc.

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Other examples include Allegro Non Troppo (Italy, 1976), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (US, 1988), Volere volare (Italy 1991), Space Jam (US, 1996) and Osmosis Jones (US, 2001).

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Goofy

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Cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company.

Goofy, anonymous in his debut cartoon, Mickey's Revue (1932)

Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941.

Goofy in his "George Geef" persona in Cold War (1951).

Goofy (right) with his son Max (left) in A Goofy Movie (1995)

Goofy, as he appears in the Kingdom Hearts series. His attire was designed by Tetsuya Nomura.

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Goofy is a close friend of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

Goofy debuted in animated cartoons, starting in 1932 with Mickey's Revue as Dippy Dawg, who is older than Goofy would come to be.

He makes a brief appearance in Disney/Amblin's Academy Award-winning hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in which the titular Roger Rabbit says of Goofy: "Nobody takes a wallop like Goofy! What timing! What finesse! What a genius!".

The Walt Disney Company

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American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

At the time, Disney became the box office leader out of all the studios in Hollywood for the first time, with films such as Who Framed Rodger Rabbit (1988), Three Men and a Baby (1987), and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987).

Daffy Duck

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Daffy as he first appeared in Porky's Duck Hunt (1937).

Daffy in drag as Carmen Miranda in Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943).

Daffy's appearance in The Looney Tunes Show (Season 1).

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character created by Warner Bros. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, he has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, in which he is usually depicted as a foil for Bugs Bunny.

He was one of the first of the new "screwball" characters that emerged in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade, such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye.

He was one of many Looney Tunes characters allowed by Warner Bros. to appear in the 1988 Disney/Amblin film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

In the film, Daffy (utilizing his original, wacky characterization) shares a scene with his Disney counterpart Donald Duck whilst performing in a piano duel.