Robin and I just got back from the Oswald cartoon show at the Silent Film Festival. Silent cartoons from the 20's with live music. Ub Iwerks' (the GREAT Disney animator) granddaughter, Leslie Iwerks, introduced the films (with Leonard Maltin). VERY creative and funny and fun.
Disney didn't own the character Oswald and eventually quit/lost the rights to Oswald. Depressed, on the train back from New York, he told his wife he was going to create his own character, "Mortimer Mouse." His wife talked him out of the name Mortimer...
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