Walt Disney Signed Book, Mickey Never Fails. With the lovely Mickey Mouse cover, this is one of the most desirable books in the series. Aunt Matilda, Monty, and Morty join Minnie is helping Mickey along as he captures bears, whales, and alligators. The significance of Mickey Mouse can never by underestimated in the Disney empire that Walt Disney went on to build. He popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when the business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb, and disaster seemed right around the corner, Walt penned in a 1948 essay titled What Mickey Means to Me. The disaster Walt mentioned was the brazen theft of both his successful cartoon character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, as well as most of the Disney artists, at the hands of Universal distributor Charles Mintz. As for who popped out of Walt's mind? Why, that was Mickey Mouse! The first Mickey Mouse cartoon actually completed was Plane Crazy. Inspired by Charles Lindbergh's heroic first solo flight across the Atlantic, its plot entailed Mickey and some animal friends attempting to assemble their own airplane. The cartoon premiered in Hollywood on May 15, 1928, in the form of a test screening. It failed to obtain distribution. The second Mickey Mouse cartoon, The Gallopin Gaucho, met with the same fate. One unpleasant distributor even told Walt, They don't know you and they don't know your mouse. The third time was the charm for Mickey, however, when Steamboat Willie premiered on November 18, 1928, in New York's Colony Theatre. It was one of the very first cartoons to ever successfully utilize synchronized sound, and was so popular, it was talked about more than the feature film it was meant to just compliment. Walt received $1,000 for a two-week run, the highest sum ever paid for a cartoon on Broadway. Walt Disney Studios, with its small but loyal staff, was saved, and a cartoon star was born. This item has been Forensically authenticated by Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators and comes with their Letter of Authenticity. Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators Guarantees their Opinion. A complete report of the forensic evaluation is available to any owner of the item current and future.

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