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66-555: The series also spawned a Silly Symphony newspaper comic strip distributed by King Features Syndicate , as well as a Dell comic book series and several children's books. The Silly Symphonies returned to theaters with its re-issues and re-releases, and eventually tied with Joseph Barbera and William Hanna 's Tom and Jerry ' s record for most Oscar wins for a cartoon series in the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film category. While Walt Disney and Carl Stalling ,

132-641: A Silly Symphonies anthology comic book, with nine issues released at irregular intervals between September 1952 and February 1959. The series printed adaptations of a few of the Silly Symphony shorts that weren't adapted in the Sunday comic strip - The Grasshopper and the Ants , The Golden Touch and The Country Cousin - as well as stories featuring Silly Symphony characters, including Bucky Bug, Little Hiawatha, Elmer Elephant, Toby Tortoise and Spotty

198-451: A cartoon series titled Fuller Pep , which was similar to Paul Terry's Farmer Al Falfa series. Nine cartoons were produced. In 1912, Powers had led his own filmmaking company, part of multiple mergers that created Universal Pictures . Between the 1922 reorganization of Film Booking Office of America and October 1923, Powers, as one of the company's new American investors, was effectively in command. Powers apparently(? ) changed

264-471: A distributor for the sound cartoons, Disney began releasing his cartoons through Powers' company Celebrity Productions (also known as Celebrity Pictures). After one year of successful Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies cartoons, Walt Disney confronted Powers in 1930 about money due to Disney from the distribution deal. Powers responded by signing Disney's head animator Ub Iwerks to an exclusive deal to create his own animation studio. The Iwerks Studio

330-420: A fifth Mickey Mouse cartoon, The Opry House , they also recorded the soundtrack for The Skeleton Dance , the type of short that Stalling had suggested and the first Silly Symphony cartoon. Within the animation industry, the series is known for its use by Walt Disney as a platform for experimenting with processes, techniques, characters, and stories in order to further the art of animation. It also provided

396-482: A five-month adaptation of Disney's 1952 live-action film. The strip, which was principally a vehicle for promoting new and re-released Disney films, adapted both live-action films and cartoons. The strip ran for 35 years, until February 15, 1987. The headings in the table below refer to the IDW Publishing reprint collections, Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics . Writing and art credits are from

462-621: A five-week run of strips titled Pluto the Pup , which ran from February 19 to March 19, 1939. The dog's owner, Mickey Mouse, was already featured in the other cartoon on the Mickey Mouse strip's Sunday page, and by this time, Donald Duck was also busy in his own strip, so in Pluto's first Silly Symphony run, he lives with Mickey's friend, Goofy (in the first strip, Goofy complains to Pluto, "Why'd I tell Mickey I'd take care of yuh?"). Later, Pluto

528-446: A name, he asks the readers for help, and the strip encouraged readers to write to their newspapers with name suggestions. In the strip, a big pile of letters is delivered to the bug, and he spends two weeks combing through the letters to reveal the winning name: Bucky Bug. Bucky travels through the forest to make his fortune, meeting up with a "friendly tramp" named Bo, and traveling to the insect city of Junkville. Bucky falls in love with

594-595: A producer on Erich von Stroheim 's The Wedding March (1928), along with Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor . (The latter was a former partner of Mitchell Mark who, like Powers, was a native of Buffalo, New York .) Patrick Powers, at age 78, died on July 30, 1948, at the Doctors Hospital in New York City after a brief illness. His August 1 obituary in The New York Times notes that at

660-577: A theatre organist from Kansas City, were in New York to add sound to the Mickey Mouse shorts The Gallopin' Gaucho , The Barn Dance and Plane Crazy , Stalling suggested the idea of making a series of musical animated shorts that combined the latest sound technology with storytelling. At first Walt did not seem interested, but when they returned to New York in February to record the sound for

726-544: A trial run in the Silly Symphony comic. Finishing up a " The Three Little Pigs " adaptation, Taliaferro and writer Ted Osborne began an extended run of Donald Duck gag strips from August 30, 1936, to December 5, 1937. Taliaferro then pitched the idea of a solo Donald comic strip to King Features Syndicate, working with writers Merrill De Maris and Homer Brightman . On February 2, 1938, the Donald Duck comic strip started appearing in daily newspapers. A Sunday version

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792-452: A venue to try out techniques and technologies, such as Technicolor, special effects animation , and dramatic storytelling in animation, that would be crucial to Disney's plans to eventually begin making feature-length animated films. Shortly after the switch to United Artists, the series became even more popular. Walt Disney had seen some of Dr. Herbert Kalmus' tests for a new three-strip , full-color Technicolor process, which would replace

858-401: A year, the now-in-Technicolor Silly Symphonies series had popularity and success that matched (and later surpassed) that of the Mickey Mouse cartoons. The contract Disney had with Technicolor would also later be extended another five years as well. The success of Silly Symphonies would be tremendously boosted after Three Little Pigs was released in 1933 and became a box office sensation;

924-498: Is a weekly Disney comic strip that debuted on January 10, 1932, as a topper for the Mickey Mouse strip's Sunday page. The strip featured adaptations of Walt Disney's popular short film series, Silly Symphony , which released 75 cartoons from 1929 to 1939, as well as other cartoons and animated films. The comic strip outlived its parent series by six years, ending on October 7, 1945. Silly Symphony initially related

990-443: Is also seen being cared for by Minnie Mouse , Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar . Pluto's run was interrupted by a month-long adaptation of The Ugly Duckling , and then he returned for a much longer period, from April 23 to December 17, 1939. This was followed by a two-month adaptation of Pinocchio , and then Pluto returned for his third and final Silly Symphony stint, from April 14 to November 3, 1940. Starting in 1942,

1056-539: The Silly Symphonies ended, Disney occasionally produced a handful of one-shot cartoons, playing the same style as the Silly Symphony series. Unlike the Silly Symphonies canon, most of these "Specials" have a narration, usually by Disney legend Sterling Holloway . In the 1934 MGM film Hollywood Party , Mickey Mouse appears with Jimmy Durante , where they introduce The Hot Choc-late Soldiers . The 1999–2000 television series Mickey Mouse Works used

1122-723: The Silly Symphonies title for some of its new cartoons, but unlike the original cartoons, these did feature continuing characters. As of 2021, three of the Silly Symphony shorts ( Three Little Pigs , The Old Mill , and Flowers and Trees ), have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". A Sunday Silly Symphony comic strip ran in newspapers from January 10, 1932, to July 12, 1942. The strip featured adaptations of some of

1188-627: The Silly Symphony cartoons, including Birds of a Feather , The Robber Kitten , Elmer Elephant , Farmyard Symphony and Little Hiawatha . This strip began with a two-year sequence about Bucky Bug , a character based on the bugs in Bugs in Love . There was also an occasional Silly Symphonies comic book, with nine issues published by Dell Comics from September 1952 to February 1959. The first issue of this anthology comic featured adaptations of some Silly Symphony cartoons, including The Grasshopper and

1254-615: The Silly Symphony stories inspired long-running features in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories . In 1942–43, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories reprinted all of Duvall and Taliaferro's Bucky Bug strips in issues #20-28. Following this, the editors decided to produce new Bucky Bug stories, retaining the strip's use of verse in the story's dialogue and captions. The first new Bucky story, "A Cure for Gout", appeared in issue #39 (December 1943), drawn by Taliaferro and Dick Moores. The second original story, "The Playground Plot", appeared in

1320-535: The Talkartoon series was renamed as Betty Boop cartoons. In 1932, after falling out with Columbia Pictures, Disney began distributing his products through United Artists . UA refused to distribute the Silly Symphonies unless Disney associated Mickey Mouse with them somehow, resulting in the "Mickey Mouse presents a Silly Symphony " title cards and posters that introduced and promoted the series during its five-year run for UA. United Artists also agreed to double

1386-632: The Uncle Remus strip continued for almost thirty years, telling new stories of Br'er Rabbit and friends, until the strip was discontinued on December 31, 1972. Two more Silly Symphony -style feature film adaptations appeared in the early 50s, running 16 weeks each: Cinderella (1950) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). A similar Sunday strip, Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales , launched on July 13, 1952, with The Story of Robin Hood ,

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1452-450: The sound film company DeForest Phonofilm in the spring of 1927. Lee De Forest was on the verge of bankruptcy, due to legal fees from a series of lawsuits against former associates Theodore Case and Freeman Harrison Owens . DeForest was by that time selling cut-price sound equipment to second-run movie theaters wanting to convert to sound on the cheap. In June 1927, Powers made an unsuccessful takeover bid for De Forest's company. In

1518-463: The Ants , Three Little Pigs , The Goddess of Spring and Mother Pluto , but it also included non- Symphony cartoons like Mickey Mouse's Brave Little Tailor . By the third issue, there was almost no Symphony -related material in the book; the stories and activities were mostly based on other Disney shorts and feature films. [REDACTED] Category Silly Symphony (comic strip) Silly Symphony (initially titled Silly Symphonies )

1584-604: The Buffalo Film Exchange, 13 Genesee St. which purchased films from producers and rented them to nickelodeons . In 1910, Powers left Buffalo for New York City , where he founded the Powers Moving Picture Company, also frequently billed in advertisements and credited in his films as "Powers Picture Plays". Early examples of his studio's releases include The Woman Hater (1910) with Violet Heming , Pearl White , and Stuart Holmes ;

1650-479: The Hare and the remake of The Ugly Duckling . On December 4, 2001, Disney released " Silly Symphonies " as part of its DVD series " Walt Disney Treasures ". On December 19, 2006, " More Silly Symphonies " was released, completing the collection and allowing the cartoons to be completely available to the public. Some Disney Blu-ray discs include Silly Symphonies as high definition special features. Snow White and

1716-967: The Pig. There were also adaptations of non- Symphony Disney shorts like Lambert the Sheepish Lion , Morris the Midget Moose , and Chicken Little , and a large number of stories featuring characters from other projects, including Jiminy Cricket , Dumbo , Thumper , the Seven Dwarfs , Humphrey the Bear , and Bongo the Wonder Bear from Fun and Fancy Free . The complete strip has been reprinted in four hardcover collections, Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics , published by IDW Publishing 's Library of American Comics imprint. The first volume, published in 2016, includes all of

1782-514: The Prince to prevent him from saving Snow White. After the Snow White adaptation in 1938, the strip featured a mix of the three established motifs—further adaptations of Silly Symphony shorts ( Farmyard Symphony , The Ugly Duckling ) and animated features ( Pinocchio and Bambi ) and several runs of gag strips featuring a popular character, Pluto . Pluto was given star billing in

1848-547: The Seven Dwarfs includes six, Beauty and the Beast and Dumbo both contain two and Pixar 's A Bug's Life contains one. The Silly Symphony shorts originally aired on Turner Classic Movies ' period program block "Treasures from the Disney Vault". Some Silly Symphony shorts are viewable on Disney+ . The Silly Symphonies are listed here in production order: Disney's experiments were widely praised within

1914-413: The adventures of Bucky Bug , the first Disney character to originate in the comics. It went on to print loose adaptations of Silly Symphony shorts, often using the characters and setting of the original shorts, but adding new plotlines and incidents. Later, it went on to print adaptations of some of Disney's feature films, as well as periods of gag strips featuring Donald Duck and Pluto . By late 1935,

1980-625: The aftermath of the failed takeover, Powers hired a former DeForest technician, William Garity , to produce a cloned version of the Phonofilm sound recording system, which became Powers Cinephone . By this time, De Forest was in too weak a financial position to mount a legal challenge against Powers for patent infringement. In 1928, Powers sold Walt Disney the Powers Cinephone so that Disney could make sound cartoons such as Mickey Mouse 's Steamboat Willie (1928). Unable to find

2046-407: The antihero's scheming to get a free meal, his pursuit of the opposite sex, and his imaginative avoidance of work". The strip also included José's friends João and Nestor, and featured continuing stories. Alberto Becattini notes: "In spite of always being broke, the parrot liked to attend posh restaurants and hotels, where he often met with such curvy bird-faced chicas as the wealthy María Rocha Vaz,

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2112-652: The beautiful June Bugg, and her father—the mayor of Junkville—makes Bucky a general of his army. The bug couple is happy, but just a few strips later, the alarm sounds to alert the community that war has been declared by the flies. Duvall began an epic battle against the flies which raged for 28 weeks, but just before the story ended in April 1933, Duvall suddenly left the Disney studio. Animator Jack Kinney wrote that Duvall owed Walt Disney several weeks worth of storyboards, and Duvall simply gathered his belongings one day and left

2178-587: The blonde dancer Rae, and Gloria del Orto, in a series of adventures that even led him to the Amazon forest". In April 1944, José was joined by the Mexican rooster Panchito , who would be introduced as José's companion in the 1945 film The Three Caballeros . José and Panchito competed to win the heart of the horse-riding Mimi, and a few months later, in October, Panchito took over the strip. With Panchito as

2244-493: The budget for each cartoon from $ 7,500 to $ 15,000. In 1937, Disney signed a distribution deal with RKO Radio Pictures to distribute the Silly Symphony cartoons, along with the Mickey Mouse series. RKO would continue to distribute until the end of the series in 1939. Several Symphonies have been released in home media, most of the time as bonus shorts that relate to something within various Disney films. For instance,

2310-534: The character's 75th anniversary. To date, it is the only entirely new North American Bucky story to have been produced in many years. "The Three Little Pigs" feature inspired the creation of Li'l Bad Wolf , the Big Bad Wolf's errant son, who wants to be friends with the Pigs. Li'l Bad Wolf's adventures began in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories issue #52 (Jan 1945), and he made continuous appearances until almost

2376-602: The comedy Lost in a Hotel (1911); the children's fantasy film An Old-Time Nightmare (1911); and the Western Red Star's Honor (1911). In 1912, Powers's company merged with Carl Laemmle 's Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP) film company and others to create what eventually would become Universal Pictures . He served as treasurer of the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Later, in 1916 and 1917, Powers introduced

2442-433: The company, "leaving Walt holding the bag". Alberto Becattini suggests that Duvall's hasty exit was due to owing money to his colleagues that he couldn't pay. Whatever the reason for Duvall's departure was, Taliaferro became the artist for the strip, and he remained in that position for six years, with Ted Osborne as the strip's writer. Osborne and Taliaferro continued the story of Bucky for another 11 months, finally ending

2508-620: The end of the comic's original run, issue #259 (April 1962). In later decades, while never again a continuous feature, Wolf stories continued to appear in the magazine at least several times per year, often in all-new or new-to-the-USA material. In the 2000s, the Big Bad Wolf often became the title character in the stories, though Li'l Wolf continued to play a major role. Little Hiawatha had his own monthly story in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories for two years, from issue #143 (Aug 1952) to #168 (September 1954). Dell Comics also published

2574-436: The film industry, and the Silly Symphonies won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film seven times, maintaining a six-year-hold on the category after it was first introduced. This record was matched only by MGM 's Tom and Jerry series during the 1940s and 1950s. The Symphonies changed the course of Disney Studio history when Walt's plans to direct his first feature cartoon became problematic after his warm-up to

2640-585: The film was featured in movie theaters for several months and also featured the hit song that became the anthem of the Great Depression, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf". Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs (1933), The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934), The Tortoise and the Hare (1935), The Country Cousin (1936), The Old Mill (1937), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1938), and The Ugly Duckling (1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931), are among

2706-530: The following issue, #40 (January 1944). This story was written and drawn by Carl Beuttner, who continued as the series' main creator until 1946, with his last story in issue #72 (Sept 1946). Beuttner added new characters, such as the Ant King and the Sheriff of Junkville. The Bucky stories published from issue #73 to #77 were written alternately by Vivie Risto and George Waiss, and then Ralph Heimdahl took over

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2772-416: The main character, the action of the strip moved to Mexico, and became a gag-a-week strip featuring the rooster and his horse, Señor Martinez. Horn describes this cycle as well: "José made way for another Latin-American knockabout, the fiery rooster Panchito... As energetic as José was lazy, the sombrero-hatted, gun-toting Mexican fowl was always shown riding horses, fighting bulls, and lassoing cattle, when he

2838-516: The most notable films produced by Walt Disney. Due to problems related to Disney's scheduled productions of cartoons, a deal was made with Harman and Ising to produce three Silly Symphonies: Merbabies , Pipe Dreams , and The Little Bantamweight . Only one of these cartoons, Merbabies , ended up being bought by Disney, the remaining two Harman-Ising Silly Symphonies were then sold to MGM who released them as Happy Harmonies cartoons. Disney ceased production of Silly Symphonies in 1939. The series

2904-590: The name of Robertson-Cole/FBO to the Powers Studio for a brief period, though there is no record of the company ever having produced or released a film under that banner. In 1925, he moved briefly to take over at the distribution outfit Associated Exhibitors . In 1928, Joseph P. Kennedy and RCA head David Sarnoff merged FBO and the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater circuit to form RKO Radio Pictures . Powers invested in what remained of

2970-457: The newspaper continuity, which was published from December 1937 to April 1938. The strip used a number of story ideas that were ultimately abandoned in the film, including a more elaborate and comical meeting between the Prince and Snow White (in which Snow White creates a "dummy" of her dream prince, which the real Prince sneaks into), and an entire storyline in which the Evil Queen kidnaps

3036-449: The original Dumbo VHS included Father Noah's Ark , The Practical Pig and Three Orphan Kittens as bonus shorts to make up for the film's short length. In the UK, several Silly Symphonies were released in compilations under Disney Videos' "Storybook Favourites" brand. The three "Storybook Favourites Shorts" volumes released included among others, The Three Little Pigs , The Tortoise and

3102-447: The perfect opportunity to acquire Silly Symphonies after Disney broke with Celebrity Productions head Pat Powers after Powers signed Disney's colleague Ub Iwerks to a studio contract. Columbia Pictures (1930–1932) agreed to pick up the direct distribution of the Mickey Mouse series on the condition that they would have exclusive rights to distribute the Silly Symphonies series; at first, Silly Symphonies could not even come close to

3168-517: The popularity Mickey Mouse had. The original title cards to the shorts released by Celebrity Productions and Columbia Pictures were all redrawn after Walt Disney stopped distributing his cartoons through them. Meanwhile, more competition spread for Disney after Max Fleischer 's flapper cartoon character Betty Boop began to gain more and more popularity after starring in the cartoon Minnie the Moocher . By August 1932, Betty Boop became so popular that

3234-410: The previous two-tone Technicolor process. Disney signed a contract with Technicolor which gave the Disney studio exclusive rights to the new three-strip process through the end of 1935, and had a 60% complete Symphony , Flowers and Trees , scrapped and redone in full color. Flowers and Trees was the first animated film to use the three-strip Technicolor process, and was a phenomenal success. Within

3300-537: The reprint collections. Strips from Silly Symphony were reprinted in Disney's flagship anthology comic book Walt Disney's Comics and Stories , beginning with some Pluto the Pup strips in issue #12 (September 1941), followed by The Boarding-School Mystery in issue #14 (November 1941), The Further Adventures of the Three Little Pigs in issue #15 (December 1941), and an abridged version of Bucky Bug Gets His Name in issue #20 (May 1942). Three of

3366-479: The saga on March 4, 1934. In 1934, Taliaferro drew the Silly Symphony story arc based on the cartoon The Wise Little Hen , which featured the first appearance of Donald Duck as a secondary character. That story, which lasted on the Sunday pages from September to December 1934, gave Taliaferro a particular liking for the Duck's character. He pitched the idea of a Donald strip to Walt Disney , and Disney allowed him

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3432-607: The series, starting with issue #78 (March 1947). Heimdahl created all the Bucky stories until issue #99 (December 1948). Heimdahl introduced June's younger brother Junior Bugg in #79 (April 1947), and Junior continued to appear until #100 (January 1949). After Heimdahl's run, the remaining WDC&S Bucky stories were written by several creators, including Tony Strobl , Gil Turner , Jim Pabian and Tony Pabian. Bucky's last Comics and Stories story appeared in issue #120 (September 1950). Following this, Bucky's final solo comic story

3498-513: The strip featured José Carioca , who had recently been introduced in the film Saludos Amigos . According to comics historian Maurice Horn: "The first Sunday page opened with a panoramic tour of Rio de Janeiro before closing up on the shack that was 'the home of a young-man-about-town, a gay carefree Brazilian papagaio named José Carioca'. This marked the first U.S. appearance of the nattily-dressed, pleasure-seeking parrot... The gags were quite unsophisticated and revolved around three main themes:

3564-694: The strip had become a standalone half-page, and was no longer strictly a topper for the Mickey Mouse Sunday strip. The strip was initially titled Silly Symphonies ; after two years, the name was changed to Silly Symphony . The switch happened in the February 18, 1934 strip, just three weeks before Bucky Bug would be replaced with a new storyline, "Birds of a Feather". The complete strip has been reprinted in four hardcover collections, Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics , published from 2016 to 2019 by IDW Publishing 's Library of American Comics imprint . The original creative team for

3630-406: The strip in favor of an adaptation of the new Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs film, the dialogue was written in storybook style, without rhyming couplets, and the rhymes never returned. The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs sequence was the first of many newspaper comic strip adaptations of newly released Disney animated features. The film's general release in February 1938 came in the middle of

3696-400: The strip was animator Earl Duvall and artist Al Taliaferro , with Duvall responsible for writing and penciling, and Taliaferro inking. Duvall, who wrote the Silly Symphony short Bugs in Love , created Bucky Bug as the hero of the new Sunday strip. In the first sequence, which lasts for three months, a young bug is born and sets forth into the world to make a name for himself. Stumped for

3762-425: The strips from "Bucky Bug" (1932) to "Cookieland" (1935). Volume 2, also published in 2016, includes "Three Little Kittens" (1935) to "Timid Elmer" (1939). Volume 3, published in 2018, includes "Pluto the Pup" (1939) to "Little Hiawatha" (1942). The fourth volume, published in 2019, concludes the series with "Bambi" (1942) through "Panchito" (1945). The copyright then passed to Fantagraphics , who started republishing

3828-459: The strips with a different layout in a new collection entitled Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies , beginning in April 2023. Pat Powers (producer) Patrick Anthony Powers (October 8, 1869 – July 30, 1948) was an American producer who was involved in the movie and animation industry from the 1910s to 1930s. He established Powers' Cinephone Moving Picture Company , also known as Powers Picture Plays . His firm, Celebrity Productions,

3894-516: The task The Golden Touch was widely seen (even by Disney himself) as stiff and slowly paced. This motivated him to embrace his role as being the producer and providing creative oversight (especially of the story) for Snow White while tasking David Hand to handle the actual directing. Silly Symphonies brought along many imitators, including Warner Bros. cartoon series Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies , MGM's Happy Harmonies , and later, Universal's Swing Symphony . Years later after

3960-450: The years, as well as in various larger anthologies of historic Disney comics (e.g. Gemstone's Walt Disney Treasures paperback collection, 2006; IDW's Walt Disney's Comics and Stories 75th Anniversary Special , 2015). While some of these stories were vintage American reprints, others were new-to-the-USA Dutch stories. In a singular instance, WDCS 677 (2007) featured an entirely new American Bucky story, "Bucky's Birthday Party," made for

4026-403: Was added on December 10, 1939. For the strip's first four years—from "Bucky Bug" through "The Further Adventures of the Three Little Pigs"—all of the dialogue was written in rhyming couplets. This changed with the 15-month period from August 1936 to December 1937 when Donald Duck was featured in the strip, often performing pantomime gags with little or no dialogue at all. When Donald relinquished

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4092-416: Was first distributed by Pat Powers from 1929 to 1930 and released by Celebrity Productions (1929–1930) indirectly through Columbia Pictures . The original basis of the cartoons was musical novelty, and the musical scores of the first cartoons were composed by Carl Stalling . After viewing "The Skeleton Dance", the manager at Columbia Pictures quickly became interested in distributing the series, and gained

4158-554: Was not busy wooing his chick, the fickle Chiquita". The final strip ran on October 7, 1945. On October 14, 1945, the strip was replaced by Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit , a strip inspired by the upcoming 1946 film Song of the South . The Uncle Remus strip began, like the others, as a topper for the Mickey Mouse strip, but after the first few years, almost always appeared on its own. The previous comic strip adaptations of Disney films lasted for four or five months, but

4224-665: Was only mildly successful, with cartoon series such as Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper , released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , and the ComiColor cartoons, released by Celebrity Pictures. The Iwerks studio closed in 1936 and Iwerks subsequently returned to Disney. As for Disney, he would go on to distribute his cartoons without Powers to Columbia Pictures . In his lifetime, Powers produced nearly 300 movies, most of them early silent films produced at Universal before 1913 or one-reel animated shorts. He is, however, also credited as

4290-779: Was published in the Silly Symphonies comic #6 (August 1956), drawn by Al Hubbard and featuring Bucky and Bo the tramp trying to capture a green lake monster. Bucky Bug stories never lost their popularity in the Netherlands, where original Bucky comics have been made continuously from the 1970s to the present day. Bucky Bug stories came back into fashion in the USA in the late 1980s, when Gladstone Publishing occasionally reprinted 1940s Bucky tales in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories . These were followed by additional stories in Disney Comics , Gemstone , and IDW issues of WDCS over

4356-696: Was the first distributor of Walt Disney 's Mickey Mouse cartoons (1928–1929). After one year, Disney split with Powers, who started the animation studio Iwerks Studio with Disney's lead animator, Ub Iwerks . Powers was born in Waterford, Ireland . According to the Buffalo Courier-Express obituary dated August 1, 1948, his sister, Mary Ellen Powers, lived in Buffalo for her entire life. Powers partnered with Joseph A. Schubert Sr. and sold phonographs from 1900 to 1907, when they formed

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