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1 day ago · Iwerks and Disney decided to strike out on their own, starting a small studio called Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists. It quickly failed, but it was the start of a long partnership. Throughout the early 1920s in Kansas City, they collaborated on short cartoon series like "Laugh-O-Grams" and "Alice Comedies."
May 15, 2024 · You can watch the entirety of this 1923 silent film — one of Walt’s first at Laugh-O-Gram Studios, the studio he founded in KC before making it big in Hollywood — on Disney’s website. It never made theatrical release, but it did make history for blending live action with animation, a technique that Walt would use for all of the Alice ...
May 14, 2024 · You can watch the entirety of this 1923 silent film — one of Walt’s first at Laugh-O-Gram Studios, the studio he founded in KC before making it big in Hollywood — on Disney’s website. It never made theatrical release, but it did make history for blending live action with animation, a technique that Walt would use for all of the Alice ...
4 days ago · This is when he dubbed the term “Laugh-O-gram” and began to experiment with live-action trick photography. In May 1922, he founded his own studio: Laug-O-gram Films, Inc. which operated for ...
5 days ago · Walt Disney began his career in animation with the Kansas City Film Ad Company in Missouri in 1920. In 1922 Disney and his friend Ub Iwerks, a gifted animator, founded the Laugh-O-gram Films studio in Kansas City and began producing a series of cartoons based on fables and fairy tales.
5 days ago · Disney studied Paul Terry's Aesop's Fables as a model, and the first six "Laugh-O-Grams" were modernized fairy tales. In May 1921, the success of the "Laugh-O-Grams" led to the establishment of Laugh-O-Gram Studio, for which he hired more animators, including Fred Harman's brother Hugh, Rudolf Ising and Iwerks.
1 day ago · They also did a series of animated cartoon sketches called Laugh-O-grams and the pilot film for a series of seven-minute fairy tales that combined both live action and animation, Alice in Cartoonland.
