Mickey Mouse

"Walt Disney" By, Jeff Lenberg Published 2011

• 1928 • on a ride home with Lillian (his wife) New York to California • spoke of many animal characters cats kittens and so on • "I was coming back after this meeting in New York , and Mrs. Disney was with me, and it was on the train-in those days, you know, it was three days over, three days from New York-and when I said, 'We've got to get a new character'...well I'd fooled around a lot with little mice, and they were always cute characters, and they hadn't been overdone in the picture field-they'd been used, but never featured. So well, I decided it would be a mouse... I had 'Mortimer' first, and my wife shook her head and then I tried 'Mickey' and she nodded the other way and that was it."

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• First ever cartoon to talk • in the 1929 cartoon episode "The Karnival Kid" Mickey's first words were "Hot dogs!" • the first song to go in a Disney film was "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" in "Mickey's Follies"

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• Mickey Mouse was the first ever cartoon to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame • Mickey's original name was "Mortimer" but walt's wife didn't like it he changed it to Mickey and made "Mortimer" Mickey's rival • throughout Mickey's career he has wore a total of 175 outfits Minnie has worn over 200 • Mickey has 4 fingers for a reason Disney thought it was too many for a mouse and to save some Disney money • "Hidden Mickey's started out as a joke between Walt and other imagineers but now there are "hidden Mickey's" anywhere disney related

Walt Disney Genius of Entertainment By, Judith Pinkerton Josephon Published 2006

•Walt was the high squeaky vice of Mickey • people liked "steamboat willie" nobody offered to buy it • 4th Mickey Mouse cartoon was "barn dance" • on the next few months of "steamboat willie" Walt added sound to all the Mickey Mouse films