Mickey Mouse Piano Solo - The Opry House (1929)

向动画大师Ub Iwarks（米奇之父）敬礼！

Ub Iwerks was known at Disney for his animation genius, his technical wizardry and his unusual name. In February 1929, Walt Disney and his New York distributors were extremely pleased with Ub's animation on the Mickey Mouse cartoons。

Born to Dutch-American parents on March 24, 1901, in Kansas City, Missouri, Ub the way, he met Walt Disney at Pesmen-Rubin Commercial Art Studio, where they were employed. Both were 19, when they were laid off and decided to open their own business called Iwerks-Disney Studio Commercial Artists (renamed from Disney-Iwerks, which had sounded like an eyeglass manufacturer). The enterprise, however, only lasted a month before they were both offered jobs at the Kansas City Slide Company.


In 1922, when Walt formed Laugh-O-gram Films, Ub joined him as chief animator. The Studio went bankrupt, however, and two years later, Ub followed Walt to Hollywood, where he joined the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio to help produce the "Alice Comedies" series. Ub is also credited with sketching Mickey Mouse for the first time (while Walt shaped Mickey's personality) and served as chief directing animator for the "Silly Symphony" series before branching out on his own in 1930.


As an animator, Ub worked at record-breaking speed. He animated the first Mickey Mouse silent cartoon, "Plane Crazy," entirely by himself within a three-week period, completing as many as 700 drawings a day. (Today, the average animator produces 80 to 100 drawings a week.)



Ub Iwerks died in Los Angeles July 7, 1971.



“It all started with a mouse !”是華特迪士尼生前常說的一句話，一隻老鼠的確造就了整個迪士尼王國的誕生！