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The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. While Walt never made a cartoon based on Old Macdonald prior to this episode of the Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air, there were at least 2 animated shorts based on this popular folksong; Old Mac Donald Duck (1941) and Jack & Old Mac (1953) Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Who Killed Cock Robin was a 1935 Silly Symphony based on the famous nursery rhyme. The characters were used a few more times in comics as well as merchandising. Contemporary audiences at the time would have been familiar with their connection to the Walt Disney cast of characters. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Mother Goose characters appeared in several Silly Symphonies cartoons including Mother Goose Melodies (1931), Old King Cole (1933), and Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) In the early 20th century the Mother Goose characters were also a staple in American pop culture including storybooks and films and plays such as Babes in Toyland. The characters were used a few more times in Walt Disney comics as well as merchandising. Contemporary audiences at the time would have been familiar with their connection to the Walt Disney cast of characters. Walt revisited the Mother Goose characters in live action with 1961's Babes in Toyland. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Pied Piper first appeared in the 1933 Silly Symphony of the same name. The character was used a few more times in comics as well as merchandising. Contemporary audiences at the time would have been familiar with his connection to the Walt Disney cast of characters. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The Mother Goose characters appeared in several Silly Symphonies cartoons including Mother Goose Melodies (1931), Old King Cole (1933), and Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) In the early 20th century the Mother Goose characters were also a staple in American pop culture including storybooks and films and plays such as Babes in Toyland. The characters were used a few more times in Walt Disney comics as well as merchandising. Contemporary audiences at the time would have been familiar with their connection to the Walt Disney cast of characters. Walt revisited the Mother Goose characters in live action with 1961's Babes in Toyland. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. King Neptune first appeared in the 1932 Silly Symphony of the same name. (The second cartoon to be made in Technicolor.) The character was used a few more times in further Silly Symphony and Mickey Mouse cartoons as well as merchandising such as books and comics. Contemporary audiences at the time would have been familiar with his connection to the Walt Disney cast of characters. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

During the 1930's novelty songs like this were quite popular and marketed to help people get through FDR's Great Depression. Songs like this prove just how popular of a star Micky Mouse was at the time. Written by Ann Ronell Performed by Don Bestor & his Orchestra Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

Minnie's Yoo Hoo is a song introduced in the 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Follies and is Mickey's original theme song. When the original Mickey Mouse Clubs formed in the 1930's it was played at their meetings. It was the first Disney song to be released on sheet music. Written by Walt Disney & Carl Stalling. Performed by Len Maurice Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

This is the third Mickey Mouse cartoon animated but the first one released. When the silent versions of Plane Crazy and the Gallopin' Gaucho failed to gain distribution, Walt decided to make the third Mickey Mouse cartoon the world's first fully synchronized sound cartoon after seeing The Jazz Singer (Itself being the first synchronized live action film.) The short was animated by Ub Iwerks and the title comes from a parody of a Buster Keaton film, Steamboat Bill. A test with live sound was done for the staff in July 1928. Walt Disney voiced all the characters in the short. The film was distributed by Pat Powers. Steamboat Willie premiered at Universal's Colony Theater in New York City on November 18, 1928 and became the most popular cartoon of its day and launched Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney into stardom. In 1998, the film was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. It fell into the public domain in 2024. Release date November 18, 1928 Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Alice Comedies are Walt Disney's first successful animated series. The cartoons follow the adventures of a live action little girl named Alice and her animated cat, Julius, through an animated world. Alice is played by Virginia Davis. The cartoons are animated by Ub Iwerks and were distributed by Margaret J. Winkler. The successful Alice Comedies series ran for 57 episodes and are the foundation of the Disney Bros Studio. The series was finally replaced by Walt's new star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. 16 Alice Comedies shorts are believed to be lost. This is the 4th Alice Comedies cartoon in the series. Release date May 1, 1924 Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Alice Comedies are Walt Disney's first successful animated series. The cartoons follow the adventures of a live action little girl named Alice and her animated cat, Julius, through an animated world. Alice is played by Virginia Davis. The cartoons are animated by Ub Iwerks and were distributed by Margaret J. Winkler. The successful Alice Comedies series ran for 57 episodes and are the foundation of the Disney Bros Studio. The series was finally replaced by Walt's new star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. Cast Virginia Davis as Alice Leon Holmes as the tubby boy Spec O'Donnell as a boy 16 Alice Comedies shorts are believed to be lost. This is the 3rd Alice Comedies cartoon in the series. Release date April 1, 1924 Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Alice Comedies are Walt Disney's first successful animated series. The cartoons follow the adventures of a live action little girl named Alice and her animated cat, Julius, through an animated world. Alice is played by Virginia Davis. The cartoons are animated by Ub Iwerks and were distributed by Margaret J. Winkler. The successful Alice Comedies series ran for 57 episodes and are the foundation of the Disney Bros Studio. The series was finally replaced by Walt's new star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. 16 Alice Comedies shorts are believed to be lost. Alice's Day at Sea is the first short completed under the Disney Bros Studios contract with Margaret Winkler and was delivered on December 26, 1923. The Disneys rented back office of the Holly Vermont Realty located at 4651 Kingswell Avenue where they'd produce the entire Alice Comedies series. This is the 2nd Alice Comedies cartoon in the series. Release date March 1, 1924 Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

This final Laugh-O-Gram became the foundation of the Walt Disney Studio. It's original title was Alice in Slumberland, a reference to Winsor McCay's popular newspaper comic strip Little Nemo's Adventures in Slumberland. After Laugh-O-Grams went bust, Walt Disney moved to Hollywood with this unfinished short in his briefcase. When live action director jobs were closed to him, Walt returned to animation and finished the short in his Uncle's Herbert's garage. Shortly afterward, he sold the series of Alice shorts to the successful animated film distributor Margaret J. Winkler. Walt teamed up with his brother Roy, sent for Ub Iwerks, who'd been his primary animator on the short, and the live action child actress who'd been in this short, Viginia Davis, and the Disney Bros Studios was established by Roy and Walt Disney in Los Angeles on October 16, 1923. The successful Alice Comedies series ran for 57 episodes and was finally replaced by Walt's new star, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927. 16 Alice Comedies shorts are believed to be lost. This is the 1st Alice Comedies cartoon in the series. Release date October 16, 1923 Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

Song of the South was an A-list production and Walt's first since Bambi. World War II had slowed down the output of animated features at his studio and it wasn't until Cinderella that Walt would get to make a true animated feature again. After the war, the Walt Disney Studios could only churn out what's known as "package features" with shorts and featurettes edited together to feature length. Walt wanted to get into live action to increase output and keep costs down. RKO, Walt's distributor, required animation must be included in his films. The solution was to transform the animated feature Uncle Remus, which had been in development at the studio since the 1930's, into a live action film with animated sequences. Many of Walt's artists agreed that Song of the South was the highpoint of their careers at the studio. The project was an important personal one for Walt, having grown up with the stories, and when he selected James Baskette to star as Uncle Remus, he'd planned to do a series of films based on the Joel Chandler Uncle Remus stories. Unfortunately, Baskett passed away shortly after the film was released, but not before Walt personally saw to it that he was awarded an Oscar for his efforts. To promote Song of the South, Walt Disney starred in these radio shows with the cast of the film and his stable of stars interacting with the characters. He'd been doing radio shows like this since the 1930's and would continue to interact with his characters in television in the 50's and 60's adding to their realism. These song of the South shows were syndicated and aired in markets to promote the film. These show stars Walt Disney, James Baskett, Nick Stewart, Johnny Lee, Clarence "Ducky" Nash, Luana Patten, Bobby Driscoll, and Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers, Walt Disney, James Baskett, , Nick Stewart, Johnny Lee, and Donald Duck. Be sure to nominate this historical film on the National Film Registry at the link below. https://www.research.net/r/national-fim-registry-nomination-form Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

In interviews at the time, Walt Disney revealed that Mickey and Minnie were actually a married couple in "real life" but co-stars in their films. This popular song was recorded by multiple artists and further songs built upon it by chronicling their wedding reception and children. Written by Eddie Lisbona & Tommy Conner Performed by Dan Donovan & the BBC Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

Lux Radio Theater was a classic radio anthology series broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays[1] during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand. The show reenacted theatrical films as radio plays and was hosted by the legendary film director Cecil B. deMille. For their Christmas 1938 program, Walt Disney appeared with most of the cast from his film Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs to retell the story to listeners at home. In the adaptation, there's a few extended versions of the songs. At the end of the show deMille interviews Walt Disney on the success of his films. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

Lux Radio Theater was a classic radio anthology series broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays[1] during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand. The show reenacted theatrical films as radio plays and was hosted by the legendary film director Cecil B. deMille. For their Christmas 1939 program, Walt Disney presented Pinocchio with most of the cast from his film. The film had fallen behind schedule and missed its planned Christmas release but would debut six weeks later in February. This was the first time audiences ever met any of the characters or were told their story that's become quite familiar today. A few deleted verses to songs and a deleted reprise of When You Wish Upon a Star by the Blue Fairy can be heard in this special presentation. Pinocchio is the most lavish animated feature ever made and it's a shame it's not counted among the other 1939 Hollywood classics as the greatest year in cinema history. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

In interviews at the time, Walt Disney revealed that Mickey and Minnie were actually a married couple in "real life" but co-stars in their films. This popular song was recorded by multiple artists and further songs built upon it by chronicling their wedding reception and children. Written by Robert Bagar, Milt Coleman, & James Cavanaugh Performed by Arthur Lally Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

On Oct 27, 1966, Walt Disney made this film meant to present his ideas for EPCOT and his Florida Project to the state legislature and American industry investors. When Walt made the deal to build EPCOT he had to agree to build the state of Florida their very own Disneyland. In exchange the state of Florida gave Walt's organization special rights for the property. Walt wanted these rights to build his Experimental prototype Community of Tomorrow. In this film, you can see what walt had in mind and it's VERY different from the EPCOT that was built and even more different from the EPCOT that exists today. The Reedy Creek district was exploited by Woke Disney for a city that was never built. Those privileges should have been forfeited decades ago. This film was one of two that were the final footage of Walt that was ever shot. He died from lung cancer a few weeks later. Had Walt not been an avid smoker, he may have lived to see the completion of EPCOT as he'd envisioned. This is one of the tragic lessons we can learn from his life and what the world lost from his passing. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Robin Hood first appeared in the 1936 Mickey Mouse color Sunday comic strip. The character was used a few more times in merchandising. Contemporary audiences at the time would have been familiar with his connection to the Walt Disney cast of characters, Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air was a 1938 musical-variety radio series for children, sponsored by Pepsodent and heard on NBC on Sunday afternoons, featuring Mickey Mouse and other characters from Walt Disney's cartoons and comic strips. The program was created to promote the February 1938 release of Disney's first animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In this episode Walt Disney and his cast of shorts characters interact with the cast from Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs. Walt would use this template many times again in the future when he'd introduce a new film to his audience. Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

In interviews at the time, Walt Disney revealed that Mickey and Minnie were actually a married couple in "real life" but co-stars in their films. This popular song was recorded by multiple artists and further songs built upon it by chronicling their wedding reception and children. Written by Edward Pola & Franz Vienna Performed by Pat O'Malley Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.

This song was written around a popular phrase when people felt shortchanged if a Mickey Mouse cartoon wasn't being shown on a program. It demonstrates just how popular Mickey Mouse was. Written by Irving Caesar Performed by Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra Posted for historical purposes. This channel is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company.