A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
000235
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1929) 221 A year previously, in 1928, a young man named Walt Disney (he was then twenty-seven years old) had produced an animated cartoon— silent, of course —called Plane Crazy. Its principal character was a promising young actor destined to become famous as Mickey Mouse. In 1929, Disney again starred his precocious rodent in Steamboat Willie, shown here —the first Mickev Mouse with sound. BELOW That same year, Disney produced The Skeleton Dance, the first "Silly Symphony." Its historical importance lies in the fact that it was the forerunner of his Fantasia, for it was an animated interpretation of a standard orchestral work— in this case, SaintSaens' Danse macabre.