NEEDLE DROP NOTES

July 23, 2017 posted by

Sing Me A Cartoon 3: Much More Mickey Mouse

“. . . that tricky, wacky-wicky, Bolseviki Mickey Mouse”. I don’t know if Disney would have approved of that description of Minnie’s boyfriend.

NEEDLE DROP NOTES

July 16, 2017 posted by

Sing Me A Cartoon 3: More Mickey Mouse

By 1929, the Mickey Mouse shorts had attained a theme song – a deliberately corny, purposefully rustic opus called “Minnie’s Yoo-Hoo”.

NEEDLE DROP NOTES

July 9, 2017 posted by

Sing Me A Cartoon 2: Mickey Mouse at the start

By the end of 1929, the Mickey Mouse cartoons were enormously popular, not only with the general public, but with high-falutin’ film critics …and song-writers.

BAXTER'S BREAKDOWNS

June 21, 2017 posted by Devon Baxter

MOONLIGHTING ANIMATORS IN COMICS: Jack Bradbury

Porky Pig! Spencer Spook! Mickey Mouse! This week, we profile Disney/Warners animator Jack Bradburys vast career in comics.

Bossert Behind-the-Scenes

June 17, 2017 posted by

Disney Without Mickey Mouse? It Could Have Happened in 1928

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was Walt Disney’s first big success – until he lost the contract and that prompted him to create Mickey Mouse; and the Rest is History!

The Other Disney Cartoons

November 14, 2016 posted by JB Kaufman

Disney’s “Hollywood Party” Sequences

A quasi-Silly Symphony, Hot Chocolate Soldiers – produced in 1934 as an insert for the MGM feature Hollywood Party – is a little gem that qualifies as a “hidden” Disney classic.

ANIMATION ANECDOTES

June 17, 2016 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #267

“The head honcho at MGM was looking through the financial books one day and said, ‘What the hell is this? What do we need new cartoons for?’ That was his thinking.” – Joe Barbera

ANIMATION ANECDOTES

April 22, 2016 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #259

“Walt, Ub Iwerks and Les Clark get themselves a few laughs over the 1929 antics of Mickey Mouse in a lively short called The Karnival Kid, wherein Mickey enjoys an amusement park.”

BAXTER'S BREAKDOWNS

April 6, 2016 posted by

“Mickey’s Fire Brigade” (1935)

In today’s breakdown, Mickey, Donald and Goofy are fighting blazes in this classic Disney cartoon! Sixteen animators are credited for the animation, reflecting the studio’s growth during the mid-1930s.

ANIMATION ANECDOTES

March 4, 2016 posted by

Animation Anecdotes #252

Mickey Mouse Club 1931. Theaters often needed safety even back in 1931 when the Fox Mission Theater in Southern California had its Saturday morning Mickey Mouse Club which would cost…