- February 6
- The Mickey Mouse film Magician Mickey is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. [16] [23] [228.305]
- February 7
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film The Country Cousin for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons. [39.371]
- February 20
- The Mickey Mouse film Moose Hunters is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.341]
- March 4
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) to Disney for the film The Country Cousin. [13] [16] [23] [38.72] [39.371
- March 13
- The first cels for Snow White and Seven Dwarfs are sent to the camera department. [1102.260]
- The Silly Symphony film Woodland Cafe is released to theaters. [7] [16] [23] [501.619]
- March
- Roy Disney concludes negotiations to receive a loan of US$650,000 from the Bank of America. [1102.165]
- April
- The idea for an animated short film entitled Davey Jones' Locker is first proposed, with Mickey Mouse searching for underwater treasure. [176.55]
- The idea for an animated short film entitled Pearl Divers is first proposed, with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in an underwater adventure. [176.55]
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- April 17
- The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Amateurs is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Clara Cluck, Clarabelle Cow, and Goofy also appear. [16] [7] [23] [228.324]
- May 15
- The Silly Symphony film Little Hiawatha is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.291]
- Republic Pictures Corporation releases the film Michael O'Halloran to theaters. An excerpt from the Mickey Mouse cartoon Puppy Love is shown. [42.1372]
- May
- Walt Disney begins negotiations with Paul Dukas to purchase the rights to use the music and story for The Sorcerer's Apprentice in an animated film. [23] [35.81] [96.62]
- May 19
- The film compilation Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons is released to theaters. [23] [1378.3]
- May 29
- The Mickey Mouse film Modern Inventions is released to theaters. Donald Duck stars, without Mickey Mouse. [16] [23] [228.337]
- (month unknown)
- Disney artists work on a proposed animated short film, Jungle Mickey, with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. [176.36]
- June
- Two scenes for the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are cut: one where the dwarfs meet to discuss Snow White staying or leaving, and the soup-eating scene. [1102.163]
- The idea for an animated short film entitled Sargasso Sea is first proposed, with Mickey Mouse visiting a floating island, or Atlantis. [176.55]
- (month unknown)
- Disney publishes the first issue of The Mickey Mouse Globe Trotter Weekly, used by a national bakery campaign. [113.328]
- Production begins on the film Pinocchio. [17] [40.177] [42.1664]
- Walt Disney decides to make an animated feature film of Bambi. [37.66]
- Work begins on an animated film of Roman de Reynard, a group of tales and poems from 11th century Europe. [176.81]
- Work begins on an animated film of Edmond Rostard's play Chanticleer, about a rooster who believes his crowing makes the sun rise. [176.79]
- Production begins on the film Bambi. [17] [50.153] [185.103] (1939 [34.178])
- A book, Mickey Mouse Bedtime Stories is published. [96.54]
- Work begins on a script for an animated feature film Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold. [383.176]
- In Sweden, the Musse Pigg-tidningen (Mickey Mouse) magazine is first published, by Åhlén & Åkerlund. (23 issues are published until 1938.) [650.50] [853.12]
- July
- Walt obtains the rights to use the music of The Sorcerer's Apprentice. [35.81]
- (month unknown)
- United Artists informs Disney that to continue acting as Disney's film distributor, Disney would have to sign over all future television rights to Disney's entire film inventory. Walt Disney refuses. [34.99] [501.581] (1936 [267.104])
- Disney signs with RKO Radio Pictures as distributors of Disney films. [16] [23] [34.100] [47.140] (1936 [267.105])
- September
- Roy Disney requests another US$327,000 from the Bank of America. [1102.266]
- Bank of America liason Joe Rosenberg, RKO head Ned Depinet and other RKO executives visit the Disney studio to watch a rough cut of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They leave satisfied with the film. [1102.266]
- September 24
- The Mickey Mouse film Hawaiian Holiday is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Pluto, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.229]
- September 26
- Camera work begins on the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. [42.1984]
- October 15
- The Mickey Mouse film Clock Cleaners is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [1378.142]
- October 17
- Huey, Dewey, and Louie debut in the Donald Duck color Sunday comic page. [228.246]
- (month unknown)
- Walt Disney meets Leopold Stokowski at Chasen's restaurant. Stokowski offers to conduct music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice for free. He also suggests they collaborate on a feature film with various pieces of classical music. Disney is not interested. [176.121]
- November 5
- The Silly Symphony film The Old Mill is released to theaters. This is the first animated film using a multiplane camera. The camera alone cost US$70,000 to build, and stands 14 feet high. [6] [7] [16] [15] [23] [228.367] [235.93]
- November 11
- Final animation work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is completed. [1102.268]
- November
- Work begins on the short film The Sorcerer's Apprentice. [35.20]
- November 26
- The Mickey Mouse film Pluto's Quin-Puplets is released. Pluto stars, without Mickey Mouse. Fifi also appears. [16] [15] [23] [228.394]
- November 27
- The last cels for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs are painted. [1102.268]
- November 29
- Walt Disney receives a letter from Leopold Stokowski, suggesting Walt create a new character to use in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, instead of using Mickey Mouse. [35.96] [40.174] [96.62]
- (month unknown)
- The animated film The Three Bears is shelved. [176.64]
- December 1
- The Mickey Mouse comic strip is censored by the Yugoslavian paper Politika. [82.21]
- Final photography of cels for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is completed. [34.101] [1102.268]
- December
- Art Babbitt, forty Disney employees, and Gunther Lessing meet at Hyperion studio to create a federation to represent the studio's employees in relations with management. [1102.357]
- December 7
- The film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is given its first pre-release screening, in a theater in Pomona, California. [34.101] [92.16] [1102.271]
- December 10
- Disney releases the first Donald Duck film, Donald's Ostrich, to theaters. [16] [15] [23] [228.148]
- December 12
- A new Sunday color comic strip is published, featuring the animated characters from the feature films. The first edition is "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". [113.18,326] [177.81]
- December 21
- RKO Radio Pictures world premieres Disney's first full-length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Hollywood. It is the world's first color full-length animated talking movie. The US$1.5 million needed to complete the film nearly bankrupted the company. This is the first public appearance of live-actor cartoon characters at the theater - dwarfs, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Pluto. Two million drawings make up the 83-minute film. (Worldwide gross theater ticket sales of the original release: US$8.5 million.) [1] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [11] [13] [16] [15] [21] [22] [23] [185.77] [35.12] [34.101] [37.41] [42.1983] [40.163] [49.243] [48.141] [62] [90.32] [92.11] [97.135] [113.185] [177.35] [191] [206.B19] [230.30] [234.11] [235.56] [238.177] [250.96] [267.111] [370.25] [501.508] [685.29] [745.23] [1102.276] [1248.30] [1361.4] [1374.66]
- Walt Disney mentions to a colleague at the premiere of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that his dream is to build a park designed for kids. [238.200]
- December 24
- The Mickey Mouse film Lonesome Ghosts is released. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [7] [23] [228.295]
- December 27
- Time magazine features Walt Disney on the cover, for an article on the film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. [177.67] [234.12] [1361.4]
- December 31
- Walt Disney announces to the Disney family that Pinocchio would be the studio's second animated feature film. [267.117]
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