Aiiii! Kill it with fire!!!
Steamboat Willie was released on this day in 1928.
At least, that’s what the V&A Museum of Childhood tells me. First Disney cartoon with fully synchronized sound, and first cartoon ever to have the soundtrack created after the cartoon.
The cartoon Mickey, I have to admit, was seriously cuter than this stuffed toy produced a few years later. What is it with old toys and seriously nightmare-inducing teeth?
Oh, I passed the stuffed rooster again today. It’s going for £74 and an odd number of cents. Not as eye-watering as some of those toys, but no thanks.
Posted: November 18th, 2019 under art.
Comments: 8
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Comment from Mitchell
Time: November 19, 2019, 1:08 am
I never really liked Mickey Mouse as a kid. Or Donald. Or Goofy. Or any of the regular cast I suppose. On another matter I wonder how long Disney will keep getting congress to extend their copyrights.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: November 19, 2019, 2:54 am
Seriously nightmare-inducing teeth, plus those hideously deformed five-fingered hands.
Mickey Mouse: meh. He was OK as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, though.
Me and my pals were Bugs Bunny fans.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: November 19, 2019, 3:39 am
Add me to the list of now-grown-up kids who never got the appeal of Mickey Mouse.
Give me a Flying Squirrel and a Moose any day!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWpKBQmpLEs
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: November 19, 2019, 11:00 am
Plus one for Bugs, Uncle Al. Wile E. Coyote, too. I identify strongly with him. Our best laid plans follow similar trajectories.
Comment from DurnedYankee
Time: November 19, 2019, 1:37 pm
If we can multivote – Bugs (and his opponents) first AND Moose and Squirrel.
No votes for the various Yogis Booboos Quickdraws Snaggletooths, etc.
Comment from Deborah HH
Time: November 19, 2019, 3:54 pm
I saw more television cartoons than Disney cartoons, which were most often shown with Disney movies in theaters, so that is a big difference I think, in my preferences for television cartoons.
On top of that, the first funeral I ever attended was Snow White’s, and when those dwarfs knelt around her bier in the forest, I thought my little heart would break—and I’d never known “heart-break” before. It was quite traumatizing (even though the Prince came along and broke the spell). So I was very suspicious of anything Disney.
Comment from Jon
Time: November 19, 2019, 6:06 pm
That looks like the first version of the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movie trailer. Aka “uncanny valley” meets “nightmare fuel”.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: November 19, 2019, 7:08 pm
A very large part of Bugs’ appeal (as well as many other Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters) was the brilliance of Mel Blanc. He was a one-of-a-kind phenomenal voice actor.
I enjoyed lots of others, especially Rocky and B., but never warmed up to anything Hanna-Barbera did.
And then when as an adult I later saw that so many Saturday morning pseudo-animated shows had nothing but the stupid characters’ mouths twitching as they oozed left-collectivist indoctrination, I wanted to see the shows’ producers brought up on charges of child molestation.
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