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The first animated short to feature Mickey, Plane Crazy was a silent film like all of Disney's previous works.
Steamboat Willie became an instant success, and Plane Crazy, The Galloping Gaucho, and all future Mickey cartoons were released with soundtracks.
** The animated short Plane Crazy is released by Disney Studios in Los Angeles, featuring the first appearances of Mickey and Minnie Mouse.
According to John Canemaker, in Paper Dreams: The Art and Artists of Disney Storyboards ( 1999, Hyperion Press ), the first storyboards at Disney evolved from comic-book like " story sketches " created in the 1920s to illustrate concepts for animated cartoon short subjects such as Plane Crazy and Steamboat Willie, and within a few years the idea spread to other studios.
He and Iwerks would go on to develop a new cartoon in secret, which would later be known as Plane Crazy, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon.
One should note that Charles Lindbergh also served as the inspiration for Plane Crazy ( May 15, 1928 ), the first cartoon to feature Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
This leads to some ambiguity as to which is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, as Plane Crazy was the first to be produced while Steamboat Willie was the first to be released.
Mickey Mouse is portrayed in Plane Crazy as mischievous, amorous, and has often been described as a rogue, much like Disney's own Oswald the Lucky Rabbit ( It has been speculated that the cartoon started production as an Oswald entry ).
Plane Crazy ( as well as Steamboat Willie ) has been released as part of the Walt Disney Treasures DVD collections twice:
* In 1930 the story of Plane Crazy was adapted and used for the first story in the newspaper comic strip Mickey Mouse.
* In the television series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse ( 2006 – present ), Mickey regularly flies the plane from Plane Crazy which he calls the " Toonplane.
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