Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was Walt Disney's First Big Success Until He lost the Contract and that Prompted Him to Create Mickey Mouse; the Rest is History!
Mickey Mouse is a ubiquitous symbol of the global pop culture and is an indelible part The Walt Disney Company, but can you imagine if he was never created? That almost happened in the early days of the company. In the mid-1920s, the then Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio was a fledgling company that was turning out "one reelers," short films about ten or twelve minutes long, called the Alice Comedies for movie theaters. The premise of these short comedies was that a little girl, Alice, went into an animated world on an adventure in each episode. They were different due to Walt Disney adding Alice into the cartoon world instead of adding an animated character to the live action world, which is what audiences has experienced with Fleischer Bros. Studio's Out of the Inkwell series. The Disney brothers made fifty-seven of the Alice live action and animation combination shorts between 1924 and 1927.
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