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It's the 87th birthday of Mickey Mouse, as officially celebrated by Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse had actually been "born" about six months before his official birthday, debuting in a cartoon where he played a version of pilot Charles Lindbergh, but the cartoon failed to pick up a distributor. And so did a second cartoon, "The Gallopin' Gaucho," in which Mickey rides a rhea around Argentina and smokes and drinks and challenges other men to duels and acts in many ways like an outlaw.
But in his third reincarnation, which was released on this day in 1928, the creators of Mickey found success. The idea for Mickey Mouse had come from Walt Disney himself, who had once had a pet mouse. At first, his name was "Mortimer Mouse," but Disney's wife opined that this was too pompous of a name - so the name changed to Mickey Mouse. Disney said: "We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could."
Mickey's celebrated debut was on this day in a cartoon titled "Steamboat Willie," shown at New York's Colony Theatre. Part of the cartoon's success was that it featured a soundtrack perfectly synchronized to follow the visual animation of the story - something that was brand-new at the time, when even sound in movies was innovative. When recording the score for "Steamboat Willie," Disney used a click track to keep the musicians precisely on the beat. The cartoon featured a memorable scene in which Minnie drops her sheet music for the song "Turkey in the Straw." A goat eats the paper and out of his tail comes the tune - and Mickey then uses the bodies of other farm animals on board the steamboat as instruments, trying to impress Minnie, before he is relegated by the captain to peeling potatoes for the rest of the voyage.
In 1998, "Steamboat Willie" was one of 25 films added by the Library of Congress' National Film Preservation Board to the National Film Registry.
As Walt Disney recalled of the cartoon's first showing: "The effect on our little audience was nothing less than electric. They responded almost instinctively to this union of sound and motion. I thought they were kidding me. So they put me in the audience and ran the action again. It was terrible, but it was wonderful! And it was something new!"
hoobird for sending me this. :)It's the 87th birthday of Mickey Mouse, as officially celebrated by Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse had actually been "born" about six months before his official birthday, debuting in a cartoon where he played a version of pilot Charles Lindbergh, but the cartoon failed to pick up a distributor. And so did a second cartoon, "The Gallopin' Gaucho," in which Mickey rides a rhea around Argentina and smokes and drinks and challenges other men to duels and acts in many ways like an outlaw.
But in his third reincarnation, which was released on this day in 1928, the creators of Mickey found success. The idea for Mickey Mouse had come from Walt Disney himself, who had once had a pet mouse. At first, his name was "Mortimer Mouse," but Disney's wife opined that this was too pompous of a name - so the name changed to Mickey Mouse. Disney said: "We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could."
Mickey's celebrated debut was on this day in a cartoon titled "Steamboat Willie," shown at New York's Colony Theatre. Part of the cartoon's success was that it featured a soundtrack perfectly synchronized to follow the visual animation of the story - something that was brand-new at the time, when even sound in movies was innovative. When recording the score for "Steamboat Willie," Disney used a click track to keep the musicians precisely on the beat. The cartoon featured a memorable scene in which Minnie drops her sheet music for the song "Turkey in the Straw." A goat eats the paper and out of his tail comes the tune - and Mickey then uses the bodies of other farm animals on board the steamboat as instruments, trying to impress Minnie, before he is relegated by the captain to peeling potatoes for the rest of the voyage.
In 1998, "Steamboat Willie" was one of 25 films added by the Library of Congress' National Film Preservation Board to the National Film Registry.
As Walt Disney recalled of the cartoon's first showing: "The effect on our little audience was nothing less than electric. They responded almost instinctively to this union of sound and motion. I thought they were kidding me. So they put me in the audience and ran the action again. It was terrible, but it was wonderful! And it was something new!"
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Date: 2015-11-19 12:07 am (UTC)Synchronization of sound and visuals seems like such a basic part of animation today. It is hard to imagine it being a new innovation in 1928. We take so much for granted when we see modern animation or films in general.
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Date: 2015-11-19 02:25 am (UTC)I saw the new Peanuts movie and I liked it but would of preferred if it had been hand drawn. :)
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