Mickey Mouse Film Series
Mickey Mouse (originally Mickey Mouse Sound Cartoons) is a character-based series of animated short films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The films, which introduced and star Disney's most famous cartoon character, were released on a regular basis from 1928 to 1953 with three additional installments in 1983, 1990, and 1995. Besides launching the careers of several well-known characters, the series is notable for its innovation with sound synchronization and character animation.
The name "Mickey Mouse" was first used in the films' title sequences to refer specifically to the character, but was used from 1935 to 1953 to refer to the series itself as in "Walt Disney presents a Mickey Mouse". In this sense, "a Mickey Mouse" was truncated from "a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon" which was used in the earliest films. Black-and-white films rereleased during this time also used this naming convention. Mickey's name was also used occasionally to present other films which were formally part of other film series. Examples of this include several Silly Symphonies, Don Donald (1937), and Goofy and Wilbur (1939).
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