* 1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.

After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, Jones held a number of low-ranking jobs in the animation industry, including washing cels at the Ub Iwerks studio and assistant animator at the Walter Lantz studio.

When Clampett was promoted to director in 1937, Jones was assigned to his unit ; the Clampett unit was briefly assigned to work with Jones ' old employer, Ub Iwerks, when Iwerks subcontracted four cartoons to Schlesinger in 1937.

* 1971 – Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist ( b. 1901 )

* 1901 – Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist ( d. 1971 )

* 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.

* March 24 – Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist ( died 1971 )

** Ub Iwerks, American animator ( b. 1901 )

* Summertime, a 1934 cartoon by Ub Iwerks, featured in a 1986 episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse

Ub Iwerks, A. S. C.

Several years later he simplified his name to “ Ub Iwerks ”, sometimes written as " U. B. Iwerks ".

The first Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was animated entirely by Ub Iwerks.

Disney asked Ub Iwerks, who stayed on, to start drawing up new character ideas.

Ub Iwerks eventually got inspiration from an old drawing.

These inspired Ub Iwerks to create a new mouse character for Disney, eventually called Mickey Mouse.

Animator Chuck Jones, who worked for Iwerks ' studio in his youth, said “ Iwerks is Screwy spelled backwards .” Ub Iwerks died in 1971 of myocardial infarction in Burbank, California, aged 70.

A documentary film, The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story was released in 1999, followed by a book written by Leslie Iwerks and John Kenworthy in 2001.

Iwerks Entertainment, a filmographic company, was founded in 1985 in honor of Ub Iwerks.

There, he made the acquaintance of fellow animators Hugh Harman and Ub Iwerks.

Among the notable animated short subjects series made in Cinecolor were Ub Iwerks ' ComiColor cartoons, a number of late-1940s Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, and many of Famous Studios ' late-1940s Popeye the Sailor cartoons.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit ( also known as Oswald the Rabbit or Oswald Rabbit ) is an anthropomorphic rabbit and animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for funny animal films distributed by Universal Pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.

Pete ( also called Peg-Leg Pete, Big Bad Pete and Black Pete, among other names ) is a funny animal cartoon character created in 1925 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

It had originally been scripted by Walt Disney and drawn by Ub Iwerks who was succeeded by Win Smith.

Plane Crazy is an American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

The short was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

This adaptation, entitled " Lost on a Desert Island ," was written by Walt Disney with art by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith.

Clarabelle Cow was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1928.

Horace Horsecollar is a funny animal cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney.

The city suffered a major political disaster in AD 738 when Uaxaclajuun Ub ' aah K ' awiil, one of the greatest kings in Copán's dynastic history, was captured and executed by his former vassal, the king of Quiriguá.

After this, Copán became one of the more powerful Maya city states and was a regional power in the southern Maya region, although it suffered a catastrophic defeat at the hands of its former vassal state Quirigua in 738, when the long-ruling king Uaxaclajuun Ub ' aah K ' awiil was captured and beheaded by Quirigua's ruler K ' ak ' Tiliw Chan Yopaat ( Cauac Sky ).

Stela H at Copán, commissioned by Uaxaclajuun Ub ' aah K ' awiil.

Mintz revealed to Disney that he had hired most of his staff away from the studio ( except for Ub Iwerks, Les Clark and Wilfred Jackson who refused to leave ) and threatened that unless he took a 20 % budget decrease, he would drop Disney and continue the Oswald series by himself.

At first, Mickey was drawn by Disney's long-time partner and friend Ub Iwerks, who was also a technical innovator in cartoons, and drew an average of 600 drawings for Disney on a daily basis ; Disney was responsible for the ideas in the cartoons, and Iwerks was responsible for bringing them to life.

In the words of one Disney employee, " Ub designed Mickey's physical appearance, but Walt gave him his soul.

In 1927, because of cost and technical restrictions, Disney and his chief animator Ub Iwerks decided to end their work on the Alice Comedies series in search of new creative opportunities.

After departing the Disney studio, Ub Iwerks created a Horace-like character, the mule Orace, for his own studio.

Disney and lead animator Ub Iwerks created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit who debuted in Trolley Troubles in 1927.

However Ub Iwerks left Disney with Powers to form his own cartoon studio since he felt that he was the master behind Mickey Mouse and Disney was getting all the credit.

In February 2006, the now-NBC Universal ( who still owns the Lantz library ) sold the trademarks rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit along with the copyright to the original 26 cartoons produced Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.

Reiniger anticipated Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks by a decade by devising the first multi-plane camera for certain effects.

The 1986 DC Comics character Doctor Ub ' x was named in his honor.

Jack Frost appears as the title character in a 1934 release of Ub Iwerks's ComiColor Cartoons, and Martin Short plays " Jack Frost " in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause.

Disney and Ub Iwerks would then use it as the basis for their creation of Mickey Mouse, the character who eventually became Disney's most popular.

Orace was the creation of Ub Iwerks, who had already created a similar-looking character, the horse Horace Horsecollar, for Walt Disney a couple of years earlier.

Willie Whopper is an animated cartoon character created by American cartoonist Ub Iwerks.

Charles Mintz was unhappy with the production costs on Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks's " Alice Comedies ", and asked the two to develop a new character.

In the trade, Michaels was able to join NBC in exchange for Disney acquiring from NBC's corporate sibling Universal Pictures, among other things, the rights to the cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was created at Universal by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks before the founding of Disney's studio ( and then given to Walter Lantz, whose most famous creation would be Woody Woodpecker ).