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Before Snow White, Disney had been busy making shorts of Mickey and friends for almost a decade. You also have the Silly Symphony shorts, of which recently I've only viewed one.
A notable feature of the first Mickey shorts (as I recall I've seen 9 in the past few weeks) is that they were done in black & white (it was the 20s and 30s, after all). Another is that Mickey himself was not originally the goody-two shoes character we think of today: he was much more morally grey and some of his behavior would certainly disqualify him as a role model for kids today. Nevertheless it is interesting to take a peek into this era: Disney was certainly working it's way through the art of visual storytelling and it really is a marvel that the studio responsible for these shorts would soon give birth to the animated cinematic retelling of Snow White we are now familiar with.
As I watch more shorts I'll comment more. I suggest keeping this spoiler-free, as there are many shorts and we've all seen different ones.
Edit: Minnie herself wouldn't make an appropiate role model for girls either, as some of her behavior (such as that towards Mickey) can mislead them.
A notable feature of the first Mickey shorts (as I recall I've seen 9 in the past few weeks) is that they were done in black & white (it was the 20s and 30s, after all). Another is that Mickey himself was not originally the goody-two shoes character we think of today: he was much more morally grey and some of his behavior would certainly disqualify him as a role model for kids today. Nevertheless it is interesting to take a peek into this era: Disney was certainly working it's way through the art of visual storytelling and it really is a marvel that the studio responsible for these shorts would soon give birth to the animated cinematic retelling of Snow White we are now familiar with.
As I watch more shorts I'll comment more. I suggest keeping this spoiler-free, as there are many shorts and we've all seen different ones.
Edit: Minnie herself wouldn't make an appropiate role model for girls either, as some of her behavior (such as that towards Mickey) can mislead them.
Last edited by Neesonfan; 02-08-23 at 11:23 AM.
