what was walt disney's first cartoon called?
Steamboat Willie
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 Born in Chicago in 1901 , Disney developed an early interest in drawing . He took art classes as a boy and got a job as a commercial illustrator at the age of 18 . He moved to Hollywood in the early 1920s and set up the Disney Brothers Studio ( later The Walt Disney Company ) with his brother Roy . With Ub Iwerks , Walt developed the character Mickey Mouse in 1928 , his first highly popular success ; he also provided the voice for his creation in the early years . As the studio grew , Disney became more adventurous , introducing synchronized sound , full @-@ color three @-@ strip Technicolor , feature @-@ length cartoons and technical developments in cameras . The results , seen in features such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) , Fantasia , Pinocchio ( both 1940 ) , Dumbo ( 1941 ) and Bambi ( 1942 ) , furthered the development of animated film . New animated and live @-@ action films followed after World War II , including the critically successful Cinderella ( 1950 ) and Mary Poppins ( 1964 ) , the second of which received five Academy Awards . 

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 Working in secret while the rest of the staff finished the remaining Oswalds on contract , Disney and his head animator Ub Iwerks led a small handful of loyal staffers in producing cartoons starring a new character named Mickey Mouse . The first two Mickey Mouse cartoons , Plane Crazy and The Galloping Gaucho , were previewed in limited engagements during the summer of 1928 . For the third Mickey cartoon , however , Disney produced a soundtrack , collaborating with musician Carl Stalling and businessman Pat Powers , who provided Disney with his bootlegged " Cinephone " sound @-@ on @-@ film process . Subsequently , the third Mickey Mouse cartoon , Steamboat Willie , became Disney 's first cartoon with synchronized sound , and was a major success upon its November 1928 debut at the West 57th Theatre in New York City . The Mickey Mouse series of sound cartoons , distributed by Powers through Celebrity Productions , quickly became the most popular cartoon series in the United States . A second Disney series of sound cartoons , the Silly Symphonies , debuted in 1929 with The Skeleton Dance . 

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 Disney moved to Hollywood in July 1923 . Although New York was the center of the cartoon industry , he was attracted to Los Angeles because his brother Roy was convalescing from tuberculosis there . Disney 's efforts to sell Alice 's Wonderland were in vain until he heard from New York film distributor Margaret J. Winkler . She was losing the rights to both the Out of the Inkwell and Felix the Cat cartoons , and needed a new series . In October they signed a contract for six Alice comedies , with an option for two further series of six episodes each . Disney and his brother Roy formed the Disney Brothers Studio ‍ — ‌ which later became The Walt Disney Company ‍ — ‌ to produce the films ; they persuaded Davis and her family to relocate to Hollywood to continue production , with Davis on contract at $ 100 a month . In July 1924 Disney also hired Iwerks , persuading him to relocate to Hollywood from Kansas City . 

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 In 1934 , Walt Disney gathered several key staff members and announced his plans to make his first feature animated film . Despite derision from most of the film industry , who dubbed the production " Disney 's Folly , " Disney proceeded undaunted into the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , which would become the first animated feature in English and Technicolor . Considerable training and development went into the production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs , and the studio greatly expanded with established animators , artists from other fields , and recent college graduates joining the studio to work on the film . The training classes , supervised by the head animators such as Les Clark , Norm Ferguson , and Art Babbit and taught by Donald W. Graham , an art teacher from the nearby Chouinard Art Institute , had begun at the studio in 1932 and were greatly expanded into orientation training and continuing education classes . In the course of teaching the classes , Graham and the animators created or formalized many of the techniques and processes that became the key tenets and principles of traditional animation . Silly Symphonies such as The Goddess of Spring ( 1934 ) and The Old Mill ( 1937 ) served as experimentation grounds for new techniques such as the animation of realistic human figures , special effects animation , the use of the multiplane camera , an invention which split animation artwork layers into several planes , allowing the camera to appear to move dimensionally through an animated scene . 

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 For much of its existence , the studio was recognized as the premier American animation studio ; it developed many of the techniques , concepts , and principles that became standard practices of traditional animation . The studio also pioneered the art of storyboarding , which is now a standard technique used in both animated and live @-@ action filmmaking . The studio 's catalog of animated features is among Disney 's most notable assets , with the stars of its animated shorts – Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck , Goofy , and Pluto – becoming recognizable figures in popular culture and mascots for The Walt Disney Company as a whole . 
