MICKEY MOUSE

Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney's most famous character, made his screen debut 18th November, 1928, as the stars of the first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie. Since his debut, Mickey Mouse has become an international personality whose success laid the foundation of financial, in which Walt Disney built his creative organization. In addition to the embodiment of everything Disney, Mickey Mouse has become a universal symbol of the twentieth century.

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Mickey Mouse was born in the imagination of Walt Disney back in 1928 on the trip by train to New York, Los Angeles. Walt was returning with his wife in a business meeting, which his cartoon creation, Oswald the Rabbit, was wrestled from him, his financial backers. Only 26 active at once and Film Studio Hollywood "Walt went east to prepare a new contract and more money to improve his Oswald pictures. Moneymen It declined, and because the character was copyrighted under their name, took control." ... So you all alone, and nothing, "Walt recalled later." Mrs. Disney and I returned to New York to train, and I had to have something I could tell them. , I've lost Oswald so, I had this mouse is back in my head because a mouse is kind of sympathetic character, despite the fact that everyone is afraid of mice, including me »Walt spent the return train to the magical little mouse in red velvet pants and called him "Mortimer," But when the train screamed to a terminal station in Los Angeles, he rechristened the new dream mouse. Walt's wife, Lillian, I think the name "Mortimer" too pompous and suggested "Mickey." A Star Was Born.

After returning to his studio, Walt and his chief animator, Ub Iwerks, immediately began working on the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, Plane Crazy. The enthusiasm with which his small staff completed the project disappeared, although no distributor would buy the movie. She refused to give, Walt forged in the manufacture of another silent Mickey Mouse cartoon, Gallopin'Gaucho. However, late 1927, Warner Brothers ushered in the transmitter with a jazz singer, Al Jolson staff. This will signal the end of silent films as 1928, Walt dropped everything to start the third Mickey Mouse cartoon, Steamboat Willie reads this.

Recorded sound track, Walt had a film in New York because no one on the West Coast was equipped to do it. Walt sank everything in the movie. When finally completed, Walt is shown in New York exhibition. Director of the theater as a prison for young producer and decided to chance his film. Boat Willie is a huge success, and soon became the talk of the nation, Walt. Encouraged by the artistic and popular success of Steamboat Willie, Disney added sound to the first two cartoons, and was able to offer exhibition a package of three short films. Like all the Mickey Mouse-images through World War II, Walt himself supplied the voice. Then in 1946, when Walt became too busy to continue, Jim Macdonald, veteran Disney sound and vocal effects man, tookover. (Jim Macdonald continued to provide the voice of Mickey Mouse, almost thirty years until he retired in 1974. After his retirement, Wayne Allwin was selected to be the voice of Mickey Mouse. Wayne has provided Mickey Mouse vocal characterization in the final of the screen).

Mickey Mouse, will skyrocket to fame not for long. His cartoons became so popular that people first ask ticket buyers, if they are "running Mickey» before going to the reception. Soon, theaters were showing banners that read "Mickey Mouse playing today: It is not uncommon for patrons to sit through a feature twice to see him again. It thirties was Mickey Mouse, the golden age of 87 cartoon shorts to play multi-talented mice were produced by Walt Disney during that decade. He played everything from fireman to giant killer, cowboy to inventor, detective to plumber. Technically and artistically Mickey Mouse cartoons were far superior to other contemporary cartoons and gave life to the whole family, animated characters: Minnie Mouse Clarabelle Cow, Horace horsecollar, goofy, Pluto, Donald Duck, horse-Leg Pete, and many others.

The artistic success of the animators was honored in 1932 when an Oscar was presented to Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse's popularity spawned a Mickey Mouse Club in 1929, which met every week for the afternoon games, cartoons and local theaters. That several million Mouse Clubbers had a secret handshake, special member greeting, code of conduct, and even a special club song, "Yoo Hoo Minnie is." Top gold Mickey Mouse decade was his starring role as a magician to open the possibility of Fantasia (1940, great artistic innovation. Interpreted the music color, shape, movement, and history. Animation techniques were years ago, my time and have never been matched. Fantasia also introduced stereophonic sound in theaters, the elements do not work in other studios until more than ten years later.

With the advent of World War II, the Disney Studio suspended nearly all commercial activity and concentrated on helping the war effort with training films, goodwill tours, and design posters and badges of the armed forces. Mickey Mouse played his part are listed on posters insignia and calls on national security and the purchase of war bonds. And incredibly, the password and the Allied forces on D-Day, June was 6.1944 »Mickey Mouse." After the war, Mickey Mouse returned to the cartoons and appeared in his second feature film, entertainment and free Fancv (1947), which he co-starred with Donald Duck grease and a new version of "Jack and the Beanstalk," titled appropriately "Mickey and the beanstalk".

Through the forties and early fifties, Mickey Mouse cartoons with less, a playground Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto, which is more flexible character. Mickey Mouse-D symbol, if Disney can be more and more difficult to create story situations for him. When he lost his temper, and Craven, fans that write to insist that Mickey Mouse just will not do. After the success of the Disneyland television show in 1954, Disney agreed the next year to create the ABC evening program. Gave them the Mickey Mouse Club, which became the most successful show for children at all. In 1977, the New Mickey Mouse »Club, comprising 12 new Mouseketeers, debuted on television and third generation of Mouseketeers hit the air in 1989, when Mickey Mouse Club debuted as a series on the Disney Channel show is broadcast on weekday afternoons.

Mickey Mouse moved to Disneyland in 1955 to become host to major theme park, welcoming millions of visitors annually, shaking hands, to pictures and big parades leading national holidays. In 1971, he helped open the Walt Disney World Resort in 1983, he donned a kimono for the dedication of Tokyo Disneyland in 1992, he sported a beret for the opening of what is now called Disneyland Paris. Among his other activities include public appearance tours around the world for the Walt Disney Company.

Mickey Mouse was the care of three theme parks at Disney "land" was created in his honor. Mickey's Birthdayland (now Mickey's Starland) opened on 18th November 1988 in the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World to honor Mickey Mouse on his 60th birthday. Mickey's Toontown opened in 1993 in Disneyland, then in 1996 at Tokyo Disneyland and now serves as home to Mickey Mouse and all his friends cartoon.

After all these years, the cultists are beginning to understand why Mickey Mouse is the thirties was so popular. It was a little boy was born from depression who satirized people's foibles and taught them to laugh. Most importantly, he was a character who dreamed big and his dreams were universal.

Some top honors Mickey Mouse came to Walt Disney himself when, in his first television show, as the survey, Disneyland, Walt said: "I hope we never lose sight of one fact ... that everything began Mouse."