Mickey Mouse Came Later, But This Was Disney's First Animated Character

Walt Disney created a fully animated character for universal studio before Mickey Mouse.

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00:00 The huge kingdom of animated movies and series built by Walt Disney, Disneyland.

00:06 Walt Disney has his birth anniversary today on December 5. Disney is famous for giving voice

00:12 to animated characters and bringing life into them. Now, all of you have been thinking that

00:18 Mickey Mouse is the first ever animated character from Disney because of the publicity Mickey gets

00:25 and also those silhouette ears Disney's logo contains, haven't you? But the answer is no.

00:32 Though Mickey is the character we all love and we still love to watch the show whenever we get the

00:37 opportunity, Mickey is not the Disney's first animated character. It's Oswald the lucky rabbit.

00:45 In 1920, Walt Disney came up with the series Allies Comedies. It was a human interaction

00:52 with that animated cat. But there wasn't any fully animated character Disney had.

00:57 Keeping this in mind, in the year 1927, Walt Disney got an opportunity to create a fully

01:05 animated character by creating a Dil with Universal Studios. And that was the birth of

01:12 Oswald the lucky rabbit. There were many cat characters already existed on the market and

01:19 therefore that new character had to be something different. That's why Disney came up with the

01:25 idea of rabbit. Walt Disney and his coordinator Ivos designed that rabbit which somehow resembled

01:33 their later created mouse. This Oswald came to meet people with his first film Trolley Troubles

01:41 in September 1927. A film where Oswald drives his baby rabbits in street car. This film was a

01:49 success but later created problem for Walt Disney. Disney didn't have right to Oswald's character

01:57 and therefore the distributor Mintz made him live that character. Next year in 1928, he came up with

02:07 a very new beloved character Mickey Mouse which obscured Oswald. And Disney also owned the rights

02:16 to Oswald again in year 2006 which is now under a new procedure. So there are chances that we can

02:24 see a new Oswald movie or a series soon.