In 1928, Disney and a little cartoon mouse named Mickey became stars of the silver screen. The first-ever animated film with synchronized sound, "Steamboat Willie tells the story of Mickey the steamboat pilot and his determination to impress Minnie Mouse.

Mickey Mouse has transformed himself into the main character of a full length Novel! Join all the characters you love! Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Cinderella, Oswald the Rabbit, One-eyed Pete, Winnie the Pooh and friends, Peter Pan, Walt Disney and many more on a adventure into Mickey's dreams and destiny aboard the Legendary Steamboat Willy. Have you every desired your favorite child cartoon character be reimagined for your adult novel intellect? With the help of Walt Disney, this dream of magic is now possible!

The untold story of ten critical, formative years in the great producer's life

In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of animation workers. Cherished cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat, were conceived and developed using blackface minstrelsy's visual and performative conventions: these characters are not like minstrels; they are minstrels. They play out the social, cultural, political, and racial anxieties and desires that link race to the laboring body, just as live minstrel show performers did. Carefully examining how early animation helped to naturalize virulent racial formations, Sammond explores how cartoons used laughter and sentimentality to make those stereotypes seem not only less cruel, but actually pleasurable. Although the visible links between cartoon characters and the minstrel stage faded long ago, Sammond shows how important those links are to thinking about animation then and now, and about how cartoons continue to help to illuminate the central place of race in American cultural and social life.

Making his film debut in the 1928 animated classic Steamboat Willie, Mickey Mouse is featured as a mischievous riverboat deckhand whose wacky antics delight Minnie Mouse.

Film and televsion.

From Mickey Mouse to Hercules

Anyone who has ever seen a Disney movie knows that the iconic images are beautifully conveyed via the magnificent posters. The tone of the movie and the full range of emotions we experience in seeing the film are often captured in a single poster. After having seen and experienced a wonderful Disney motion picture, the mere sight of the poster can bring back the feelings of having taken the journey by watiching the film. Disney Movie Posters is a tribute to those posters, which tell the story both before and after we see the movie. Disney Movie Posters have been an important part of the motion picture process since Disney began making motion pictures. Not only are they eye-catching pieces of artwork, they are also designed to entice the movie-going audience. From Steamboat Willie, to Frozen and countless movies in between, Disney Movie Posters have been an important part of the films themselves. Disney shorts, animated movies, live action movies and Pixar movies can be remembered and honored by the posters that so efficently capture the magic of the film.

How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity. ""Free Culture is an entertaining and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media industry and new technologies."" - Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape. ""Free Culture goes beyond illuminating the catastrophe to our culture of increasing regulation to show examples of how we can make a different future. These new-style heroes and examples are rooted in the traditions of the founding fathers in ways that seem obvious after reading this book. Recommended reading to those trying to unravel the shrill hype around 'intellectual property.'"" - Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. The web site for the book is http: //free-culture.cc/.

Originally published in "Good Housekeeping" magazine, these 50 legendary one-page features translated Disney's newest releases into rollicking comic poems illustrated by master Disney painters Tom Wood and Hank Porter.