Researching early sound cartoons is fascinating. By studying these efforts, it becomes easier to see why Disney’s Steamboat Willie was such a sensation and how Mickey Mouse became a superstar. In ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 16, 1930, animator Ub Iwerks released “Fiddlesticks,” the first color-sound cartoon. He previously worked with Walt Disney in Kansas City’s Laugh-O-Gram studio.

On this day, August 16th in 1930, the world's first colour and sound cartoon titled 'Fiddlesticks was released. Here are a few things that you may not know about the animated short... This ...

The dynamic Disney duo shares the same birthday because Nov. 18 marks the anniversary of when "Steamboat Willie" first showed at the Colony Theater on Broadway in New York in 1928. It is the very ...