Chronology of the Walt Disney Company

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1932

January 5
  • Disney completes the Silly Symphony film The Bird Store. [16] [23]
January 10
  • The first "Mickey Mouse" color comic page is published in Sunday editions of newspapers. The page is written, drawn, and inked by Earl Duvall. [48.107] [82.25] [96.78] [113.18.325] [1242.62] (drawn by Manuel Gonzales [1378.148])
  • The first "Silly Symphonies" color comic page is published in Sunday editions of newspapers. The edition is titled "Bucky Bug", drawn by Earl Duvall. [48.107] [82.25] [96.78] [113.18,326] [1242.62]
January
  • Roy Disney signs new contract with United Artists as distributors of Disney's cartoons, at US$15,000 advance per picture, and payment of 30 percent of gross revenues as distribution fee. [16] [23] [40.136] [47.140] [267.72] [501.581] [1102.167] (1933 [34.70])
January 16
  • The Silly Symphony film The Bird Store is released. [1378.80]
January 17
  • The first color Mickey Mouse comic page written and drawn by Floyd Gottfredson is published. [113.325]
January 21
  • Disney completes the Mickey Mouse film The Duck Hunt. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [15]
January 28
  • Disney releases the Mickey Mouse film The Duck Hunt to theaters. [228.152]
February 8
  • Disney completes the Mickey Mouse film The Grocery Boy. Pluto and Minnie Mouse also appear. [16] [23]
February 11
  • Disney releases the Mickey Mouse film The Grocery Boy to theaters. [228.220]
February 27
  • Disney completes the Mickey Mouse film The Mad Dog. Pluto also appears. [16] [23]
March 5
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Mad Dog is released to theaters. [228.302]
April 15
  • The Mickey Mouse film Barnyard Olympics is released. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [1378.60]
May 12
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Revue is released to theaters. Pluto and Horace Horsecollar also appear. Goofy appears for the first time, with the name "Dippy Dawg". [16] [1] [7] [23] [15] [49.254] [48.129] [97.45] (May 25 [228.328] [232.85])
June 9
  • The Mickey Mouse film Musical Farmer is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.347]
(month unknown)
  • The Whitman Publishing company publishes a Big Little Book starring Mickey Mouse. [259.31]

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  • Arthur Babbit begins work at the Disney studios. [228.35]
  • Disney animator Arthur Babbit convinces Walt Disney that the studio's artists should attend classes at the studios, rather than across town at the Chouinard Art School. [185.59]
  • A book, Mickey Mouse and his Horse Tanglefoot is published. [96.28] (1936 [96.76,79])
  • Roy Disney proposes to renew film distribution through Columbia Pictures at US$15,000 advance per picture. Columbia refuses. [267.72]
  • Disney licences Hollywood Film Enterprises to sell shortened versions of Disney cartoons in 8-mm and 16-mm formats. (Hollywood Film Enterprises releases various titles up to 1950.) [228.237] [414.85]
  • Walt announces that he wants to make cartoons in color. [267.80]
  • Disney signs an exclusive two-year deal with Technicolor for use of their three-color process. [23] [40.136] [267.81]
  • United Artists produces a 48-page Mickey Mouse film and merchandise promotion book. [96.75]
  • Disney signs a contract with the Norwich Knitting Company of Norwich, New York, to produce Mickey Mouse sweaters. [96.75]
  • Membership in Mickey Mouse clubs in the US reaches 1 million. [96.23] [228.322] [327.88]
  • Irving Caesar Inc. Music Publishers publishes the song "What! No Mickey Mouse?" by Irving Caesar. [911.53]
July 1
  • Disney signs a merchandising arrangement with Herman Kay Kamen, making him the sole representative for the company. For the first US$100,000, Disney is to receive 50 percent of profits, then 50 percent for higher profits. [48.107] [113.108] [238.240] [267.70] [1102.197]
July 9
  • The Silly Symphony film The Bears and the Bees is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.64]
July 18
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey in Arabia is released to theaters. Minnie Mouse also appears. [16] [23] [228.320]
July 30
  • The Silly Symphony film Just Dogs is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. This is the last black and white Silly Symphony film. [16] [23] [228.270] [246.95]
  • Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood premieres the Silly Symphony film Flowers and Trees. This is the first full color cartoon. Originally, the film was created in black and white, but was scrapped and remade in color. The film preceeds the MGM feature film Strange Interlude. [1] [6] [7] [16] [15] [22] [23] [48.115] [113.107] [185.35] [228.188] [242.23] [245.34] [246.95] [267.81] [1102.178]
August 13
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Nightmare is released to theaters. Pluto and Minnie Mouse also appear. This film is a remake of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Poor Papa. [16] [23] [15] [63.87] [228.327] [457.68]
August 20
  • The Mickey Mouse film Trader Mickey is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [501.567]
September 10
  • The Silly Symphony film King Neptune is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.275]
September 17
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Whoopee Party is released to theaters. Goofy and Minnie Mouse also appear. [7] [15] [16] [23] [501.610]
September 18
  • A Sunday Mickey Mouse newspaper comic includes the first appearance of Morty and Ferdy, two children of Mrs. Fieldmouse, a neighbor of Mickey Mouse. [250.91] [228.182,342] (September 8 [911.172])
October 1
  • The Silly Symphony film Bugs in Love is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.104]
October 13
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Flowers and Trees for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons. [39.359]
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Mickey's Orphans for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons. [39.359]
October 15
  • United Artists releases the Mickey Mouse film Touchdown Mickey to theaters. [16] [23] [395.62] [501.565] (October 5 [15])
November 12
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Wayward Canary is released. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [501.601]
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Klondike Kid is released. Pluto and Minnie Mouse also appear. [16] [23] [15] [228.277]
November 15
  • The Disney Art Class first meets, with Don Graham of the Chouinard School of Art lecturing at the Disney Studios. [23] [24] [48.116] [1102.174] (Disney Art School [185.59] [229.61])
November
  • Disney publishes the first issue of Mickey Mouse Melodeon. [113.328]
November 18
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Honorable Mention Oscar award to Walt Disney Productions for "Distinctive Achievement", the creation of Mickey Mouse. [16] [23] [38.40] [39.359] [48.119] [96.27]
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) to Disney for the film Flowers and Trees. This is the first Academy Award for a cartoon. [7] [16] [23] [38.40] [39.359] [40.137] [48.119] [62]
  • The animated film collage Parade of the Award Nominees is released to theaters. [15]
November 19
  • The Silly Symphony film Babes in the Woods is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.51]
December 10
  • The Silly Symphony film Santa's Workshop is released to theaters. The film was produced in color. [16] [23] [501.484]
December 15
  • Disney publishes the last issue of the Official Bulletin of the Mickey Mouse Club. [113.328]
December
  • Production begins on the Silly Symphony film Three Little Pigs. [23]
December 17
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Good Deed is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [7] [23] [15] [228.326]

End of 1932. Next: 1933.

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1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943
1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953
1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963
1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973
1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983
1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
2004 2005 2006 2007-2008 2009 2010-2011 2012-end


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