Major Post 5 – Mickey

In this post, I am going to investigate the first appearance of Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks in 1928, first appear in the short Plane Crazy. Plane Crazy was made as a silent film and black and white at first, re-color and voiced later when they remade the film. Although they only used a very little time to animate this short, we can still see multiple characters moving at the same time and dynamic movements of main character – Mickey Mouse, it was more consistent than the previous work Oswalds the rabbit, with dynamic visual packs and camera angle tricks, they used a range of funny perspective angles, such as the scene when Mickey Mouse was flying a plane under the cow.  This film can demonstrate how extraordinary fast Ub Iwerks worked and show his original design with a distinct style and an excellent sense of storytelling.