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Originally Posted by OtinG
I still have trouble understanding how Mickey Mouse built the Disney empire. That is the lamest bleeping cartoon character of all time. Most of Walt’s cartoon characters were pretty lame. The ones created for animated movies were better, but the mouse sucked! I liked Hanna Barbera and the Looney Tunes characters, but never got into the Disney ones.
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You have to remember that Disney was one of (if not the first) cartoon studio. First to really use color, first to have audio matched to the pictures and they had the multi plane camera as well. And then Disney made Snow White the first full length animated movie. And it all started with the mouse. People in the early days of cinema were fascinated by the fact that pictures could be made to move at all. Animated cartoons were a novelty built on that fascination. We take it for granted now because they have been shown over and over again on Saturday mornings. The Disney shorts were originally made to be shown in movie theater's along with the serial, double feature and newsreel. Going to the movies was a lot cheaper back then I'm sure and you got more for your money than you do now. I think it was around $4.00 for a ticket when I was a kid. Now days if I go (on the weekend) by time I get in and buy my popcorn and diet soda I've laid out about $15.00 (just for one person). I rarely go now and just wait for the DVD to come out so I can watch that. These days it isn't even film stock, but a DVD disk and LCD projector that is used. If you look closely at old movies they have a circle or dot in one upper corner of a set of frames now and then. That was to tell the projectionist to get ready to switch to the next camera (as the reel that was running presently was about to run out). Now days that isn't an issue.