Mickey Mouse Wikipedia. Mickey Mouse is a funny animalcartooncharacter and the official mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1. Watch Lonesome Jim Hindi Full Movie' title='Watch Lonesome Jim Hindi Full Movie' />Our film critics on blockbusters, independents and everything in between. Created. Publisher Game of Thrones1441 Disney Channel5457 WWE Divas1433. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey has become one of the worlds most recognizable characters. Mickey first appeared in a test screening short Plane Crazy. Mickey officially debuted in the short film. Steamboat Willie 1. He went on to appear in over 1. The Band Concert 1. Brave Little Tailor 1. Fantasia 1. 94. 0. Mickey appeared primarily in short films, but also occasionally in feature length films. Ten of Mickeys cartoons were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, one of which, Lend a Paw, won the award in 1. In 1. 97. 8, Mickey became the first cartoon character to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Beginning in 1. 93. Mickey has also been featured extensively as a comic strip character. His self titled newspaper strip, drawn primarily by Floyd Gottfredson, ran for 4. Mickey has also appeared in comic books such as Disney Italys Topolino, MM Mickey Mouse Mystery Magazine, and Wizards of Mickey, and in television series such as The Mickey Mouse Club 1. He also appears in other media such as video games as well as merchandising and is a meetable character at the Disney parks. Mickey generally appears alongside his girlfriend Minnie Mouse, his pet dog Pluto, his friends Donald Duck and Goofy, and his nemesis Pete, among others see Mickey Mouse universe. Though originally characterized as a mischievous antihero, Mickey was rebranded over time as an everyman, usually seen as a flawed, but adventurous hero. In 2. 00. 9, Disney began to rebrand the character again by putting less emphasis on his pleasant, cheerful side and reintroducing the more mischievous and adventurous sides of his personality, beginning with the video game Epic Mickey. OriginI only hope that we never lose sight of one thing that it was all started by a mouse. Mickey Mouse was created as a replacement for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, an earlier cartoon character created by the Disney studio for Charles Mintz, a film producer who distributed product through Universal Studios. In the spring of 1. Disney asked Mintz for an increase in the budget. But Mintz instead demanded that Walt take a 2. Disney that Universal owned the character, and revealed that he had already signed most of Disneys current employees to his new contract. Angrily, Disney refused the deal and returned to produce the final Oswald cartoons he contractually owed Mintz. Disney was dismayed at the betrayal by his staff but determined to restart from scratch. The new Disney Studio initially consisted of animator Ub Iwerks and a loyal apprentice artist, Les Clark, who together with Wilfred Jackson were among the few who remained loyal to Walt. One lesson Disney learned from the experience was to thereafter always make sure that he owned all rights to the characters produced by his company. In the spring of 1. Disney asked Ub Iwerks to start drawing up new character ideas. Iwerks tried sketches of various animals, such as dogs and cats, but none of these appealed to Disney. A female cow and male horse were also rejected. They would later turn up as Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar. A male frog was also rejected. It would later show up in Iwerks own Flip the Frog series. Walt Disney got the inspiration for Mickey Mouse from a tame mouse at his desk at Laugh O Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri. In 1. Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. These inspired Ub Iwerks to create a new mouse character for Disney. Mortimer Mouse had been Disneys original name for the character before his wife, Lillian, convinced him to change it, and ultimately Mickey Mouse came to be. The actor Mickey Rooney claimed that, during his Mickey Mc. Guire days, he met cartoonist Walt Disney at the Warner Brothers studio, and that Disney was inspired to name Mickey Mouse after him. This claim, however, has been debunked by Disney historian Jim Korkis, since at the time of Mickey Mouses development, Disney Studios had been located on Hyperion Avenue for several years, and Walt Disney never kept an office or other working space at Warner Brothers, having no professional relationship with Warner Brothers, as the Alice Comedies and Oswald cartoons were distributed by Universal. Design. The silhouette of Mickey Mouses head has become an iconic image. Throughout the earlier years, Mickeys design bore heavy resemblance to Oswald, save for the ears, nose, and tail. Ub Iwerks designed Mickeys body out of circles in order to make the character simple to animate. Disney employees John Hench and Marc Davis believed that this design was part of Mickeys success as it made him more dynamic and appealing to audiences. Mickeys circular design is most noticeable in his ears. In animation in the 1. Mickeys ears were animated in a more realistic perspective. Later, they were drawn to always appear circular no matter which way Mickey was facing. This made Mickey easily recognizable to audiences and made his ears an unofficial personal trademark. The circular rule later created a dilemma for toy creators who had to recreate a three dimensional Mickey. In 1. 93. 8, animator Fred Moore redesigned Mickeys body away from its circular design to a pear shaped design. Watch A Lot Like Love Torent Free. Colleague Ward Kimball praised Moore for being the first animator to break from Mickeys rubber hose, round circle design. Although Moore himself was nervous at first about changing Mickey, Walt Disney liked the new design and told Moore thats the way I want Mickey to be drawn from now on. Each of Mickeys hands has only three fingers and a thumb. Disney said that this was both an artistic and financial decision, explaining Artistically five digits are too many for a mouse. His hand would look like a bunch of bananas. Financially, not having an extra finger in each of 4. Studio millions. In the film The Opry House 1. Mickey was first given white gloves as a way of contrasting his naturally black hands against his black body. The use of white gloves would prove to be an influential design for cartoon characters, particularly with later Disney characters, but also with non Disney characters such as Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Mighty Mouse, and Mario. Mickeys eyes, as drawn in Plane Crazy and The Gallopin Gaucho, were large and white with black outlines. In Steamboat Willie, the bottom portion of the black outlines was removed, although the upper edges still contrasted with his head. Mickeys eyes were later re imagined as only consisting of the small black dots which were originally his pupils, while what were the upper edges of his eyes became a hairline. This is evident only when Mickey blinks. Fred Moore later redesigned the eyes to be small white eyes with pupils and gave his face a Caucasian skin tone instead of plain white. This new Mickey first appeared in 1. The Pointer. 1. 5 Mickey is sometimes given eyebrows as seen in The Simple Things 1. Some of Mickeys appearance, particularly the gloves, and facial characteristics, evolved from blackface caricatures used in minstrel shows. Besides Mickeys gloves and shoes, he typically wears only a pair of shorts with two large buttons in the front. Before Mickey was seen regularly in color animation, Mickeys shorts were either red or a dull blue green. With the advent of Mickeys color films, the shorts were always red. When Mickey is not wearing his red shorts, he is often still wearing red clothing such as a red bandmaster coat The Band Concert, The Mickey Mouse Club, red overalls Clock Cleaners, Boat Builders, a red cloak Fantasia, Fun and Fancy Free, a red coat Squatters Rights, Mickeys Christmas Carol, or a red shirt Mickey Down Under, The Simple Things. Animation history.