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In Reply to: O.o posted by thoriated_tiger on March 25, 2005 at 15:57:27:
If you have ever seen the early Mickey Mouse cartoons, the ones from 1927-1932, you'll figure out quick why he became such a beloved icon in Depression-era America. He was brash, vulgar, and didn't give a damn about anything! Bart Simpson could have been based on him. Have you seen the sequence in one cartoon where he pulls and plays with a cow's udders?! Using the same sort of career blueprint that the Colonel would use with Elvis, Walt began looking for a way to tone Mickey down to appeal to an even wider "family" audience and still have an "attitude" in his short cartoons. The creation of Daffy Duck helped for a year or so, but by 1935, Disney threw his creative muscle into Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and that ended the last bit of real anarchy in the Disney cartoons.Leonard Maltin has written a couple of good books about American animated shorts 1920-1968 (from "Gertie the Dinosaur" to the closing of the Warners animation studios [it is interesting to note that George Lucas originally wanted to work on Warner Bros. animated cartoons and when he got an internship to WB, the first place he went to was "Termite Terrace", the famed animators studio. They had just closed it down. Looking for someplace to work for 3 or so months, he wandered into an office where another young tyro, Francis Coppola was preparing "Finian's Rainbow" and dreams of an animation career ended!].) Maltin has written some good stuff about the early Disney sound cartoons.
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