A seemingly endless stream of Steamboat Willie-themed content has been released since the 1928 Disney short film hit the public domain on January 1. We highlighted some standout (good, bad, and ugly) ...
Disney had a slew of memorable cartoon shows in the 1990s. And for many '90s kids, The Disney Afternoon (TDA) dominated the airwaves after school. For those who grew up with them, many of the shows ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 16, 1930, animator Ub Iwerks released “Fiddlesticks,” the first color-sound cartoon. He previously worked with Walt Disney in Kansas City’s Laugh-O-Gram studio.
He may have hit the big 9-4 in calendar years, but Mickey Mouse is forever young in the hearts of kids, parents, grandparents and even great-grandparents. The signature creation of Walt Disney — and ...
A look at the playbook created by Walt Disney and refined over a century of theme-park rides becoming movies, movies becoming Broadway shows, and merch coming out of it all, from such indelible IP as ...
Old-school Disney fans were saddened last week when, at a shareholder’s meeting for the company, Disney CEO Bob Iger said that the hand-drawn 2-D animation for which the studio has long been known — ...
It’s safe to say that, for the most part, modern cartoons are a far cry from the early days of animation. Animation’s roots are in the late 19 th century, with cartoons hitting the screen in the early ...