Chronology of the Walt Disney Company

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1936

January 4
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Polo Team is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.328]
February 7
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Who Killed Cock Robin? for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons. [39.367]
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the film Three Orphan Kittens for an Oscar Award in the category Short Subjects, Cartoons. [39.367]
February 8
  • In England, Odhams Press first publishes Mickey Mouse Weekly. 375,000 copies of the first issue are sold. [96.75] [113.82] [650.50] (November [96.78])
February
  • Animation work on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs begins. [1102.144]
February 15
  • The Mickey Mouse film Orphan's Picnic is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. [16] [23] [228.375]
February
  • Donald Duck appears on the cover of the Mickey Mouse Magazine for the first time. [1248.43]
March 5
  • The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) to Disney for the film Three Orphan Kittens. [13] [23] [38.64] [39.367]
March 7
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Grand Opera is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [23] [228.326]
March
  • In Serbia, Mikijevo Carstvo (Mickey Mouse) magazine is first published. (The magazine is published until April 1941.) [650.50]
March 28
  • The Silly Symphony film Elmer Elephant is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.160]
April
  • The idea for an animated short film entitled Mickey's Bakery is first proposed, with Mickey Mouse baking an elaborate cake. [176.54]
April 18
  • The Silly Symphony film Three Little Wolves is released to theaters. (This is the second sequel to Three Little Pigs.) [16] [23] [97.55] (April 14 [501.554])
May
  • Roy Disney concludes negotiations to receive a loan of US$630,000 from the Bank of America. [1102.165]
May 30
  • The Mickey Mouse film Thru the Mirror is released to theaters. [7] [16] [23] [501.556]
June
  • The idea for an animated short film entitled Sunken Treasure is first proposed, with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy in an underwater adventure. [176.55]

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  • Kay Kamen takes over the publishing of the Mickey Mouse Magazine from Hal Horne. [113.144]
June 20
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Rival is released to theaters. Minnie Mouse also appears. Mortimer Mouse makes his debut. [16] [23] [228.328]
  • The Mickey Mouse film Moving Day is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [228.344]
(month unknown)
  • Walt Kelly creates some preliminary sketches for Snow Babies, a proposed sequel to Water Babies. [176.65]
  • Ted Sears and Merrill de Maris begin work for an animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes, as a Silly Symphony, starring Mickey Mouse, with Donald Duck and Goofy. [176.66] (1938 [176.66])
  • Walt Disney receives the French Legion of Honor award. [47.140] (1935 [60.6])
  • Work begins on an animated film, The Three Bears, as a Silly Symphony. [176.64]
  • Paramount releases the film The Big Broadcast to theaters in the USA. Included is the song "It's the Animal in Me", with lyrics "Look at Mickey Mouse. Look at Minnie Mouse. They just live on love and chee-eeze.". [911.1]
July 4
  • David Hilberman begins work at the Disney studio. [34.126]
July 25
  • The Mickey Mouse film Alpine Climbers is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Goofy also appear. [16] [23] [15] [1378.26]
(month unknown)
  • Disney artists begin work on an animated short film titled Japanese Symphony. [176.158]
August 1
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Circus is released to theaters. Donald Duck also appears. [16] [23] [15] [228.325]
August 22
  • The Silly Symphony film Toby Tortoise Returns is released to theaters. [16] [23] [501.560]
September 12
  • The Mickey Mouse film Donald and Pluto is released to theaters. Donald Duck and Pluto star, without Mickey Mouse. [16] [23] [228.143]
September 26
  • The Silly Symphony film Three Blind Mouseketeers is released to theaters. [16] [23] [501.552] (1932 [7])
October 10
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Elephant is released to theaters. Pluto and Bobo the elephant also appear. [16] [23] [228.325]
October 31
  • The Silly Symphony film The Country Cousin is released to theaters. [16] [15] [23] [1378.158]
November 14
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mother Pluto is released to theaters. Pluto stars, without Mickey. [16] [23] [228.343]
November
  • Storyman Dick Creedon suggests removing two Snow White scenes: one where the dwarfs meet to discuss letting Snow White stay or make her leave, and one where dwarfs make her a bed so she will not want to leave. [1102.163]
  • Disney artists begin work on an animated short film titled Santa Claus Symphony. [176.161]
December 19
  • The Silly Symphony film More Kittens is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.341]

End of 1936. Next: 1937.

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