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Mickey Mouse Characters

Mickey Mouse is a fictional character from the series of the same name, emblem of the Disney company. Created on November 18, 1928, this mouse has a disputed origin. The official legend says that was created by Walt Disney during a train ride and that his original name was Mortimer, but changed to Mickey at the request of his wife, Lillian. According to Bob Thomas, the legend of the name is fictitious, and cites the case of a character called Mortimer Mouse, born in 1936, Minnie uncle Mouse.1 The most likely version is that the character was created by cartoonist Ub Iwerks, to Disney request, to offset the loss of the rights to Oswald the lucky rabbit, at the hands of Universal. The truth is that Mickey is nothing more than a variation of the character of Walt Disney Oswald. A is to be attributed both the character's voice, as the personality and character of the mouse:

His head was a circle with another circle as a muzzle. His body was like a pear and had a long tail; its legs were the tubes and got into big shoes to give the appearance of a child with his father's shoes.

The Walt Disney Company celebrates the birth of Mickey on November 18, 1928, following the release of Steamboat Willie, the first animated short film sound, and third appearance of ratón. Walt Disney lent his voice to the character, for seventeen years, from 1928 to 1947, when it was replaced by the sound technician Jimmy MacDonald. Since 1977 the voice is Wayne Allwine until 2009 since it is played by Bret Iwan. Over the years Mickey has appeared in cartoons, movies, comics, video games, becoming the icon of the Walt Disney Company, which shares its name with its creator.

The Gallopin 'Gaucho was the second short film starring Mickey Walt Disney produced. The Walt Disney Company failed, however, to find a distributor for the film, which was released after the success of the third short of the character, Steamboat Willie, 30 December 1928. For that reason, although it was the second short of Mickey mouse in their production, was the third to be released.

Both Mickey and his girlfriend, Minnie, had already appeared in the first film of the series, Plane Crazy, which premiered on May 15, 1928 and did not get the expected success. Disney and Iwerks again tried to capture the interest of the audience with a new film about the same characters, The Gallopin 'Gaucho. The animation of the film ran exclusively by Iwerks. The Gallopin 'Gaucho was intended as a parody of Douglas Fairbanks film entitled The Gaucho, released shortly before, on November 21, 1927. The action takes place in the Argentina Pampa, and Mickey is the gaucho himself.

The protagonist rides a rhea instead of a horse (although sometimes it is said to be an ostrich). Reaches the bar and restaurant Cantina Argentina, ostensibly to relax with a drink and smoking. The restaurant is the waitress and dancer Minnie Mouse, and a parishioner, who is none other than Pete Pata Palo (English Peg Leg Pete later Black Pete, or just Pete), presented as an outlaw. The role of villain Pete had already been established in the series of Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. This short, however, represents his first encounter with Mickey and Minnie. The last two seem to know each other, although both had already appeared together in Plane Crazy.

Minnie dancing a tango and the two male characters fight over it. Pete tries to hasten the end of the fight abducting Minnie and taking her on his horse, but Mickey followed astride his rhea and soon becomes his height. Mickey and Pete then engage in a swordfight, of which the first is victorious, rescuing the damsel in distress. The short ends with the image of Mickey and Minnie riding the rhea, stretching to the horizon.

In later interviews, Iwerks would comment that in The Gallopin 'Gaucho was intended to introduce Mickey as an adventurer swordsman, similar to that used to represent the characters in the film Douglas Fairbanks. Personalities, both Mickey and Minnie, are, however, very different from what they would become in later years. Mickey is still a lot like Oswald character, but Disney was working to give its own personality.

Steamboat Willie: As a result of these works the following short film of Mickey, the second to be released and the first one that really caught the attention of the public was created.