It’s Pluto’s birthday party, but Mickey’s dozen or so nephews seem to be having all the fun. Their present is a wagon so Pluto can pull them; the “Pin the Tail on Pluto” game doesn’t go quite right, and everything seems to prevent Pluto from having his birthday cake. But Mickey has planned ahead. www.imdb.com
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19Jan
Posted by Pluto @ 9:36 pm
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January 19th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Mickey was? originally created as a replacement for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, an earlier star created by the Disney studio.
January 19th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Oswald had been created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Charles Mintz of Universal Studios. In fact, Mickey closely resembled Oswald in his early appearances. However, Disney received an unpleasant lesson when he asked Mintz for a larger budget for his popular Oswald series: in reply, Mintz fired Disney and Iwerks and taken? all of Disney’s artists to draw Oswald, to which Mintz and Universal owned the rights.
January 19th, 2013 at 9:36 pm
From that point on, Disney made sure that he owned all rights to the characters produced by his company. Oswald would eventually return to the Disney fold in 2006 as part of a trade between? NBC Universal and Disney, with NBC getting the contract of sports announcer Al Michaels as compensation.