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The Disney Studio outgrows its Kingswell Avenue office and moves to a larger building on Hyperion Street in Silver Lake.


Fourteen Alice comedies, featuring a new star, Margie Gay, are released.


Mickey Mouse's predecessor, Oswald, The Lucky Rabbit, is introduced in the cartoon short "Trolley Troubles."


Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic and Disney spoofs Lindbergh mania in "Plane Crazy," Mickey and Minnie Mouse's first film. Animator Ub Iwerks finishes it in two weeks, creating 700 drawings a day.


"The Jazz Singer," the first talking picture, premieres in New York.


Mickey Mouse makes his first appearance on the big screen in "Steamboat Willie," also the first cartoon with a properly synchronized soundtrack and Minnie Mouse's big-screen debut. The original Mickey had no shoes or gloves and had a long, curling tail.


A soundtrack is added to Mickey and Minnie's first film, "Plane Crazy," and it's successfully released.


Mickey Mouse Clubs spring up all over the country and children attend Saturday meetings where the cartoons are shown. Audiences are disappointed when there's no Mickey Mouse cartoon to accompany a film, and "What, no Mickey Mouse?" becomes a common expression and the name of a hit song.


The first Academy Awards® ceremony is held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.


Mickey's theme song, "Mickey's Yoo Hoo," is introduced in the cartoon "Mickey's Follies."


"The Skeleton Dance," the first of 75 Silly Symphony cartoon shorts, is released, proving there's a market for conceptual cartoons that don't contain familiar story lines and characters.


Black Tuesday hits and the stock market collapses. In a single day, a record 16 million shares are traded and $30 billion dollars vanish into thin air, marking the start of the Great Depression.


The mouse roars. Mickey speaks for the first time in the short "The Karnival Kid."