“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.”*…
Ducklings everywhere: the names of Donald Duck’s three nephews across Europe, from Mapologies (where one will also find the other names of Donald himself and of the Flintstones).
* Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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As we dunk on Uncle Donald, we might recall that it was on thus date in 1921 that Newman Laugh-O-Gram studio released it’s first (more or less) four animated films as a kind of demo reel. The first three were live shots of young director Walt Disney drawing a single fame; the fourth, “Kansas City’s Spring Clean-up,” was actually animated.
Laugh-O-Gram only lasted two years, but it was long enough for Disney to recruit several pioneers of animation: Ub Iwerks, Hugh Harman, Friz Freleng, and Carman Maxwell— and, with Iwerks, to create Mickey Mouse.
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