Showing posts with label Animation. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Mickey Mouse



Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Wille, 1928


DID YOU KNOW? Walt Disney, who founded the world renown Walt Disney company in 1923, came up with the idea for an animated mouse called Mortimer Mouse in 1927. His wife, Lillian, hated the name and convinced him to rename the famous character to Mickey Mouse.

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Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Simpsons


The Simpsons

DID YOU KNOW THAT . . . Matt Groening named the characters in "The Simpsons" after his own family. Groening's father's name was Homer, his mom's name is Margaret, and his sisters are named Lisa and Maggie. He started "The Simpsons" by making animated shorts for "The Tracey Ullman Show". He didn't want to adapt his comic series "Life in Hell" for the cartoon, so he made the show about a dysfunctional family instead. Because he didn't want the show to be autobiographical, he named the older brother character "Bart" instead of Matt. Why Bart? Bart is an anagram for "brat".

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