A report on Mickey Mouse, Animation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Walt Disney Company

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.

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)

The plot incorporated the actual closing of Pacific Electric.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Mickey's star on the 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.

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

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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.

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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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Electronic automata were popularized by Disney as animatronics.

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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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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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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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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.

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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).

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Donald Duck is known for his fiery temper

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

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

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

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

Donald Duck's Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by 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 appeared in comedic roles in animated cartoons.

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