Researching early sound cartoons is fascinating. By studying these efforts, it becomes easier to see why Disney’s Steamboat Willie was such a sensation and how Mickey Mouse became a superstar. In ...

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.

The dynamic Disney duo shares the same birthday because Nov. 18 marks the anniversary of when "Steamboat Willie" first showed at the Colony Theater on Broadway in New York in 1928. It is the very ...

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Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to ...