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Last updated: 2008 June 26.

1928-1929

1930-1931

1932-1934

1935-1939

1940-1959

1960-1984

1985-1994

1995-end

1935 January 19 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Man Friday is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.327] February 10 Donald Duck makes his first appearance in the Mickey Mouse Sunday edition comic strip. [82.102] February 23 The Mickey Mouse film The Band Concert is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. This is the first Mickey Mouse film processed in Technicolor. [16] [7] [22] [23] [85.9] [113.110] [190.26] [228.40] [230.31] [250.98] March 16 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Service Station is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [15] [228.328] April 13 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Kangaroo is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. This is the last black-and-white Disney cartoon. [16] [23] [228.327] May 15 The third Mickey Mouse Magazine is first published, priced at 10 cents. [75] [113.143] [228.99,323] [650.50] June 1 The Ingersoll-Waterbury Company reports that it produced 2.5 million Mickey Mouse watches during its 2-year association with Disney. [113.128] (month unknown) Noma Electric Company is licensed to produce tree-decorating lights with Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony images. [249.81] In France, the League of Nations presents Walt Disney with a special medal in recognition of the fact that Mickey Mouse is "a symbol of universal good will". [96.24] [267.101] [483.79] (1937 [234.12]) In the New York Times Magazine, L.H. Robbins writes "Mickey Mouse is the best known and most popular international figure of his day." [370.5] Lionel introduces The Mickey Mouse Handcar train toy, with a circle of track, for 90 cents. (254,000 sets are sold in under four months. Over one million are sold in three years, saving Lionel from bankruptcy.) [328.44] An exhibition of Mickey Mouse art is displayed at the fashionable Leicester Gallery in London, England. [96.25] Disney begins to phase out the Mickey Mouse Clubs, due to difficulties in administering so many clubs around the world. [96.82] [113.102] July 13 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Garden is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [15] [23] [228.326] (month unknown) Development begins on the proposed animated short film, Sea Monster, starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. [176.36] August 3 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Fire Brigade is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Clarabelle Cow, and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.326] August 31 The Mickey Mouse film Pluto's Judgement Day is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [15] [23] September 28 The Mickey Mouse film On Ice is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, Pluto, and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.369] October The last issue of the second Mickey Mouse Magazine is published. [113.142,328] [228.323] (month unknown) The Goodyear Rubber Company produces a 50-foot high inflatable Mickey Mouse to lead Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Other Disney balloons in the parade are Pluto, the Big Bad Wolf, and a pig from the film Three Little Pigs. [96.23] [911.167] (1934, Christmas Parade [483.88]) 1936 January 4 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Polo Team is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.328] February 8 In England, Odhams Press first publishes Mickey Mouse Weekly. 375,000 copies of the first issue are sold. [96.75] [113.82] [650.50] (November [96.78]) February 15 The Mickey Mouse film Orphan's Picnic is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. [16] [23] [228.375] March 7 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Grand Opera is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [228.326] March In Serbia, Mikijevo Carstvo (Mickey Mouse) magazine is first published. (The magazine is published until April 1941.) [650.50] April The idea for an animated short film entitled Mickey's Bakery is first proposed, with Mickey Mouse baking an elaborate cake. [176.54] May 30 The Mickey Mouse film Thru the Mirror is released to theaters. [7] [16] [23] [501.556] June The idea for an animated short film entitled Sunken Treasure is first proposed, with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy in an underwater adventure. [176.55] Kay Kamen takes over the publishing of the Mickey Mouse Magazine from Hal Horne. [113.144] June 20 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Rival is released to theaters. Minnie Mouse also appears. Mortimer Mouse makes his debut. [16] [23] [228.328] The Mickey Mouse film Moving Day is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.344] (month unknown) Ted Sears and Merrill de Maris begin work for an animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes, as a Silly Symphony, starring Mickey Mouse, with Donald Duck and Goofy. [176.66] (1938 [176.66]) Paramount releases the film The Big Broadcast to theaters in the USA. Included is the song "It's the Animal in Me", with lyrics "Look at Mickey Mouse. Look at Minnie Mouse. They just live on love and chee-eeze.". [911.1] July 25 The Mickey Mouse film Alpine Climbers is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [15] [228.19] August 1 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Circus is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. [16] [23] [15] [228.325] October 10 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Elephant is released to theaters. Pluto and Bobo the elephant also appear. [16] [23] [228.325] 1937 January 2 The Mickey Mouse film The Worm Turns is released to theaters. [16] [23] [501.622] (month unknown) Walt Disney begins planning a Mickey Mouse or Silly Symphony short film based on Paul Dukas' musical story The Sorcerer's Apprentice. [35.80] (late 1936 [176.121]) February 6 The Mickey Mouse film Magician Mickey is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. [16] [23] [228.305] February 20 The Mickey Mouse film Moose Hunters is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.341] 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] 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 Republic Pictures Corporation releases the film Michael O'Halloran to theaters. An excerpt from the Mickey Mouse cartoon Puppy Love is shown. [42.1372] (month unknown) Disney artists work on a proposed animated short film, Jungle Mickey, with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. [176.36] June 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] A book, Mickey Mouse Bedtime Stories is published. [96.54] 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] 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] October 15 The Mickey Mouse film Clock Cleaners is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.95] 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] December 1 The Mickey Mouse comic strip is censored by the Yugoslavian paper Politika. [82.21] 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 industry's first full-length animated 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] December 24 The Mickey Mouse film Lonesome Ghosts is released. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [7] [23] [228.295] 1938 February 25 The Mickey Mouse film Boat Builders is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy also appear. [16] [15] [23] [228.62] (month unknown) Work begins on the animated short film Pluto's Robot Twin, with Mickey Mouse and Pluto. [176.43] May 6 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Trailer is released. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.329] June 22 It is suggested that Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea be turned into a dream adventure for Mickey Mouse. [176.55] (month unknown) The NBC radio network airs the Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air program. [228.324,407] Manuel Gonzales begins pencil and ink work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip for the Sunday newspaper page. [228.209] Drawings of Mickey Mouse include pupils in his eyes for the first time. [96.43] July Howard Swift proposes an animated film entitled Salvagers with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as deep sea divers. [176.55] August 19 The Mickey Mouse film The Whalers is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [501.603] September 9 The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Parrot is released. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [228.328] September 23 The Mickey Mouse film The Brave Little Tailor is released to theaters. Minnie Mouse also appears. [16] [15] [225.40] [235.92] (Brave Little Tailor [23] [228.68]) 1939 (month unknown) Production is suspended on the Mickey Mouse film Pilgrim Mickey. The film was to star Mickey Mouse and his nephews. [176.34] February 3 The Mickey Mouse film Society Dog Show is released to theaters. Pluto and Fifi also appear. [16] [15] [23] (month unknown) A Mickey Mouse watch is sealed in the World's Fair time capsule buried in New York. [113.109] July 21 The Mickey Mouse film The Pointer is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [228.395] October Dick Creedon and Al Perkins submit a proposal for an animated film entitled Pieces of Eight or Three Buccaneers (later called Morgan's Ghost), with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, and Black Pete. [176.56]