In both the vintage cartoons and in the new animated segments, Mickey was voiced by his creator Walt Disney.

* 1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.

The first animated short to feature Mickey, Plane Crazy was a silent film like all of Disney's previous works.

** The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.

" Mickey Mousing " became a term for any movie action ( animated or live action ) that was perfectly synchronized with music.

He was responsible for the distinctive style of the earliest Disney animated cartoons, and was also responsible for creating Mickey Mouse.

The first few Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies cartoons were animated almost entirely by Iwerks.

Pluto debuted in animated cartoons and appeared in 24 Mickey Mouse films before receiving his own series in 1937.

Pete has appeared in more than 40 animated short films between 1925 and 1954, having been featured in the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons, and later in the Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy cartoons.

Mickey Mouse Works is an American television show that features the cartoon character Mickey Mouse and his friends in a series of animated segments.

Mickey Mouse Works was created to recreate the golden age of Disney's animated shorts, featuring some of Disney ’ s most popular characters.

In 1930, Disney began a newspaper strip called Mickey Mouse which greatly expanded Mickey's world which was already well-known from the animated cartoons.

Mickey's rival was once again called Mortimer in later comics — and in the animated series Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse, where their character utilized the catchphrase, " Ha-cha-cha!

First-run episodes of Shake It Up, Wizards of Waverly Place and Good Luck Charlie earned six of television ’ s top 10 telecasts that month in key child demographics, with Phineas and Ferb ranked as the No. 1 animated series on TV among Kids 6 – 11 and Tweens 9 – 14 for that month and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse ranked among TV ’ s top 10 programs for that month in Playhouse Disney's Kids 2 – 5 target demographic.

Mickey Mouse's popularity put the animated character into the ranks of the most popular screen personalities in the world.

* He appeared as himself in a voice cameo in an episode of the animated show Disney's House of Mouse in which Mickey accidentally sent him an angry fax meant for Mortimer Mouse.

His abilities might have been a reason why filmmaker Walt Disney chose Ebsen to be filmed dancing in front of a grid as an aid to animating Mickey Mouse's dancing in Disney's 1929 to 1939 Silly Symphonies animated short films ..

* 1928-Disney's Steamboat Willie opens, the first animated picture to feature Mickey Mouse

The Simple Things is a 1953 animated short subject, part of the Mickey Mouse series, produced by Walt Disney Productions.

Their composition, " Baroque Hoedown ", from their 1967 album, " Kaleidoscopic Vibrations " was adopted by Disney for their " Starlight Parade " event at Disneyland and Disneyworld, and was used by filmmaker Mike Jittlov for the " Mouse Mania " animated short film he made for Disney's Mickey Mouse 50th anniversary TV special in 1978.

In the 1939 animated Mickey Mouse short " Mickey's Surprise Party ", Mickey gives Minnie many Nabisco products, one of which is Fig Newtons.

The Chain Gang is a Mickey Mouse animated film produced in 1930 by Walt Disney for Columbia Pictures.

Following in the footsteps of Mickey Mouse series, a series of musical shorts titled, Silly Symphonies were released in 1929.

Lantz consulted Disney about Oswald and he gave Lantz his blessing to continue the Oswald series as the Mickey Mouse shorts had become more successful, so the two became close friends.

Mickey's Service Station directed by Ben Sharpsteen, first released on March 16, 1935, was the first of the classic " Mickey, Donald, and Goofy " comedy shorts.

Mickey would return in The Whalers, first released on August 19, 1938, but this and also Tugboat Mickey, released on April 26, 1940 would be the last two shorts to feature all three characters as a team.

However, when the shorts were shown right before and after Toon Disney's Big Movie Show on weekdays, they were shown with the Mickey Mouse Works closing credits.

While some shorts have the Mickey Mouse Works title card background, others have the House of Mouse version ( the Mouse Works version has various mechanics in the background, including a Mickey shaped one and one with the Mouse Works text inside it, but the House of Mouse version has various moving swirls ) ref > Mickey's Laugh Factory.

One of the sets released in this wave, The Chronological Donald, Volume Four, features a handful of Donald-centric shorts from both Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse as bonuses, including Bird Brained Donald, Donald and the Big Nut, Donald's Charmed Date, Donald's Dinner Date, Donald's Failed Fourth, Donald's Rocket Ruckus, Donald's Shell Shots, Donald's Valentine Dollar, Music Store Donald and Survival of the Woodchucks.

Clarabelle mostly played bit-part characters in the approximately 30 cartoon shorts in which she appeared, and her character was never as fully developed as Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Donald Duck or Pluto.

Dinah has since appeared in several cartoon shorts featured in the anthology series Mickey MouseWorks, and in the series Disney's House of Mouse, where the cartoon short " Pluto's Arrow Error ," reveals that Dinah is Butch the Bulldog's gal and that she obviously has no serious interest in Pluto, which might explain her fickle nature on most other cartoon appearances she's had with Pluto and Butch competing for her affections.

The short was double the length of most of the shorts featured on the series and is considered by many Disney fans to be the best of the Mickey Mouse Works shorts.

When Disney shut down their shorts department in 1962, Nash continued to voice Donald in various projects over the next two decades, notably performing the song " Macho Duck " on the Mickey Mouse Disco album in the 1970s.

The new Disney shorts of Mickey Mouse made the silent offerings of Sullivan and Messmer, who were then unwilling to move to sound production, seem outdated.

These include most of the shorts featuring Donald Duck in the post-war era along with all starring Chip ' n Dale and Humphrey the Bear ; he also directed some shorts starring Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Pluto and some minor Walt Disney characters.

Disney's other cartoon series, the Mickey Mouse shorts, were deemed successful enough not to need the extra boost of color, and therefore remained in black-and-white until 1935's The Band Concert.

Following this short, three special one-shot Mickey shorts were produced: Mickey's Christmas Carol ( 1983 ), The Prince and the Pauper ( 1990 ), and Runaway Brain ( 1995 ).

When the shorts division closed, Humphrey was the last of only seven Disney characters who had been given a series of their own, starring in cartoons who opened with their own logo ( the six others were Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, Chip ' n ' Dale ( counting as one ), and Figaro ).

The film was the first Mickey Mouse film produced in color and remains one of the most highly acclaimed of the Disney shorts.

He soon followed this with a flurry of other shorts, including Mouse Heaven, which consisted of images of Mickey Mouse memorabilia, Ich Will!

His work in animated cartoon shorts included The Brave Little Tailor, in which he animated scenes of Mickey Mouse and the king ; Mickey and the bear in The Pointer, and German dialogue scenes in the World War II propaganda short Education for Death ( shortly before Thomas enlisted in the Air Force ).