Soon, Mickey Mouse was interacting with Stan & Ollie, Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, the Frankenstein Monster, and all the popular stars of the silver screen in cartoons like “Mickey’s Gala Premiere” (1933). With the prosperity that his studio had achieved, Disney started paying homage to these inspirational comedians and other celebrities by putting animated likenesses of them in his cartoons.
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The four would meet again at the Academy Awards in November of 1932 (Above right) when the comedy team’s movie “The Music Box” won the award for Best Live Action Comedy Short Subject of 1931-32 and Disney won the Oscar for Best Animated Short with the first color cartoon “Flowers and Trees.” (The cartoon was actually the first commercially released movie in the new three-strip Technicolor process.) They would meet again when Disney was a guest at the lavish 20th anniversary celebration of Hal Roach Studios in 1933.Ī quartet of cells from Mickeys Gala Premiere Disney had the opportunity to meet many of the comedians he had idolized on screen and adapted to his cartoons, and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy became familiar friends, along with their boss Hal Roach. When Walt Disney finally achieved independent success with his creation of Mickey Mouse in 1928, his fortunes changed, and he became a familiar figure in Hollywood. As his studio grew, Disney assigned his animators to watch Laurel & Hardy and Chaplin films to help them learn the comedy movements and expressions of the renowned pantomimists. The slapstick style of those early comedies is reflected in the crude comedy and knockabout replicated in the Disney cartoons at the time. Charlie Chaplin was probably his biggest influence, but he undoubtedly saw the early solo films of Stan Laurel and Oliver “Babe” Hardy, among many other comedians. Routinely patronized movie theaters to get inspiration for his early cartoons. Walt Disney was a big fan of silent film comedies and in his formative years as an animation pioneer, he
Stan, Walt Disney, Hal Roach and Babe at the Hal Roach Studios’ 20th anniversary party, held on December 7, 1933.
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