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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,546 posts) Mon Nov 18, 2019, 01:36 PM Nov 2019

Happy 91st 🎂 Mickey!

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Happy 91st 🎂 Mickey! (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Nov 2019 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Wednesdays Nov 2019 #1

And nothing will ever enter public domain again... Ron Obvious Nov 2019 #2

Free Mickey! hunter Nov 2019 #3

This was the first Mickey cartoon released...BUT... Archae Nov 2019 #4

Response to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Wednesdays This message was self-deleted by its author.

Ron Obvious

(6,261 posts)

2. And nothing will ever enter public domain again...

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 07:23 PM

Nov 2019

hunter

(38,310 posts)

3. Free Mickey!

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 18, 2019, 11:38 PM

Nov 2019

Poor fellow has been an indentured servant his entire life.

Maybe it's not so much a problem with animated characters, but what happens now that modern computer graphics can recreate actual actors?

Will living actors have to compete with long dead actors?

Is Tom Hanks going to be playing his younger self when he's 91 years old?

Will celebrities be selling their voices and likenesses to the movie studios to achieve some kind of Mickey Mouse immortality?

Archae

(46,318 posts)

4. This was the first Mickey cartoon released...BUT...

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Nov 19, 2019, 12:06 AM

Nov 2019

It wasn't the first one they made.

The first was called "Plane Crazy" and had a little fun with Mickey having Lindbergh as a hero.

There was one more after "Plane Crazy" I can't remember the title of.

But Walt decided to go with this newfangled technology called "synchronized sound" and "Steamboat Willie" worked out beautifully.

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