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Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, which was an enormous success; Plane Crazy was officially released as a sound cartoon on March 17, 1929. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the fourth Mickey film to be given a wide release after Steamboat Willie , The Gallopin' Gaucho and The Barn Dance (1929).
Disney believed that adding sound to a cartoon would greatly increase its appeal. [12] The character of Pete predates Steamboat Willie by multiple years, having appeared as the villain to both Oswald and Disney's first ever cartoon hero, Julius the Cat (an unlicensed derivative character of Felix the Cat ) starting with Alice Solves the Puzzle ...
Little Johnny Jet is a 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio cartoon short directed by Tex Avery about a "family" of airplanes. [2] The title is a play on Little Johnny Jones. The screenplay was written by Heck Allen. The film score was composed by Scott Bradley. The film was produced by Fred Quimby.
The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote feature in 3D computer-animated cartoons or cartoon animation in the Cartoon Network TV series The Looney Tunes Show. The CGI shorts were only included in Season 1, but Wile E. and the Road Runner still appeared throughout the series in 2D animation.
This is a list of theatrical animated cartoon shorts distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which were not part of any other series such as Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Barney Bear, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior, Spike and Tyke, Butch or Happy Harmonies. [1] All of these cartoons were produced in Technicolor.
Falling Hare is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. [1] The cartoon features Bugs Bunny. [2] In this film, Bugs Bunny tries to prevent the wrecking of an American military aircraft by a gremlin. The setting is a base of the United States Army Air Forces.
Tom Terrific is a 1957–1959 animated series on American television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children's television show. [1]Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio (which by that time was a subsidiary of CBS, the network that broadcast Captain Kangaroo), Tom Terrific was made as twenty-six stories, each split into five episodes, with one five-minute episode ...
The Gallopin' Gaucho was released, with sound, after Steamboat Willie on December 30 of the same year. [ 2 ] Both Mickey and Minnie Mouse had already made their initial debuts with the test screening of Plane Crazy on May 15, 1928, but that film had failed to catch the attention of distributors when first produced as a silent film.