After losing control of his Oswald character, Walt Disney and his team brainstormed to come up with a new cartoon character: a mouse named Mickey. Watch a short clip about how Walt Disney and his ...

From classic ones to new ones ... the first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie. Yes, if not for Universal taking Oswald away from Walt, the world would never have gotten Mickey Mouse and the course ...

In May 1928, at a movie theater on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, the crowd was treated to an unannounced preview of a new silent cartoon from ... audience met a black mouse as he attempted ...

But this time, it’s Mickey Mouse, founder Walt Disney’s own creation – or this first version of him, at least (although The ...