Together they started the Disney Brothers Studios.

             Mickey Mouse was created in November of 1928 as a good-natured mouse who often finds himself in difficult situations. Walt"s talents were first used in a silent cartoon entitled "Plane Crazy" which starred Mickey Mouse. However, before the cartoon could be released, sound came upon the motion picture screen. Mickey made his screen debut in "Steamboat Willie", the world"s first fully synchronized sound cartoon. This premiered at the Colony Theatre in New York on November 18, 1928.

             Walt"s drive to perfect the art of animation was endless. During the 1930s, Disney also produced the Silly Symphony series of shorts which served as a venue for experimentation for new technologies. For example, Technicolor which was one of the first color film systems was introduced to animation during the production of his "Silly Symphonies". He also was responsible for the relationship between visuals and music. In 1932, the film entitled "Flowers and Trees" won Walt the first of his 32 personal Academy Awards. Disney introduced other popular characters in subsequent family-orientated films of the 1930"s and 1940"s, including Minnie Mouse, Mickey"s girlfriend; Goofy, likeable dog and the excitable Donald Duck. In 1937, he released "The Old Mill", the first short subject to utilize the multiplane camera technique. These shorts can be considered precursors to Disney"s full-length animated film Fantasia, which appeared in 1940 and in which animated images served an interpretations of well-known symphonic music.

             On December 21 of that same year, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the first full-length animated musical feature, premiered at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. Produced at the unheard cost of $1,499,000 during the depths of the Depression, the film in still accounted as one of the great feats and imperishable monuments of the motion picture industry.