The Origin of MICKEY MOUSE The year was 1928, and during a trip - TopicsExpress



          

The Origin of MICKEY MOUSE The year was 1928, and during a trip to New York City, 27-year-old Walter Elias Disney found out by Charles Mintz that he had lost the right to produce anymore cartoons starring the character that served as his first success, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. To make matters worse, all of Walts artists had been hired away by Universal Studios (who owned the Oswald character the whole time). Devastated, Walt now had to start from scratch and create a new character, one that he would own the rights to. He asked his friend Ub Iwerks to draw up some ideas for new original characters. Walt got the idea for a character inspired by a pet mouse he owned back when he was a child living in a farm in rural Missouri. Walt insisted on naming this new mouse Mortimer, but his wife Lillian insisted on renaming him into something cuter than Mortimer, and thus... Mickey Mouse was born.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 10:30:00 +0000

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