Andrew McGowan studied at Bowdoin College and the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Hs has served on programming and judicial teams for several film festivals, and has written about cinema ...

Before he became the biggest mouse in the biz, Mickey Mouse welcomed audiences to the movies. Beginning in 1928, the mischievous Walt Disney icon starred in short films that played before the main ...

Mickey Mouse may seem pretty spry, but he made his first public appearance to test audiences 89 years ago this week. No, the cartoon wasn't the much-beloved Steamboat Willie—it was Plane Crazy, a ...

Walt Disney's first Mickey Mouse film was called 'Plane Crazy.' It was a silent film shown to a test audience in 1928. But distributors weren't excited about it, so it wasn't released to the public.

On May 15, 1928, Mickey Mouse first appeared on screen - it was on this day that the test screening of the cartoon “Plane Crazy" took place. Ukrainian News Agency will tell you how they first wanted ...

Mickey Mouse is Walt Disney’s most famous creation and a long-standing cultural icon. (Pixabay pic) On May 15, 1928, American cinemagoers watched a short cartoon which had a plot about a certain mouse ...

The International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton, Fla., says it is reluctantly auctioning its prize exhibit--purportedly the first drawings of Mickey Mouse--to help pay debts. The museum will ...