oswald the lucky rabbit was the first cartoon walt disney made.
what was the first cartoon walt disney made?
oswald the lucky rabbit
after leaving walt disney in the spring of 1928, harman and ising went to work for charles mintz on universal's second-season oswald the lucky rabbit cartoons. april 1929 found them moving on again, leaving universal to market their new cartoon character. in may 1929, they produced a short pilot cartoon, similar to max fleischer's out of the inkwell cartoons, "bosko, the talk-ink kid" that showcased their ability to animate soundtrack-synchronized speech and dancing. the short, plotless cartoon opens with live action footage of ising at a drafting table. after he draws bosko on the page, the character springs to life, talks, sings, and dances. ising returns bosko to the inkwell, and the short ends. this short is a landmark in animation history as being the first cartoon to predominantly feature synchronized speech, though fleischer studios' song car-tune "my old kentucky home" was the first cartoon to contain animated dialogue a few years earlier. this cartoon set harman and ising "apart from early disney sound cartoons because it emphasized not music but dialogue." the short was marketed to various people by harman and ising until leon schlesinger offered them a contract to produce a series of cartoons for the warner bros. it would not be seen by a wide audience until 71 years later, in 2000, as part of cartoon network's special "toonheads: the lost cartoons", a compilation special of rare material from the wb/turner archives.
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it was founded as the disney brothers cartoon studio (formerly walt disney cartoon studios) in 1923 and incorporated as walt disney productions in 1929. the studio was exclusively dedicated to producing short films until it expanded into feature production in 1934. in 1983, walt disney productions named its live action film studio walt disney pictures. during a corporate restructuring in 1986, walt disney productions was renamed the walt disney company and the animation division, renamed walt disney feature animation, became a subsidiary of its film division, the walt disney studios. its current name was adopted in 2007, after pixar was acquired by disney in the same year.
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