What is there to say about Mickey Mouse that hasn’t already been said? There had been popular animated characters before, but never to the same level of Mickey Mouse. He truly was the world’s first animated superstar. The contents of this, the first of four two-disc Walt Disney Treasures sets devoted to the Mouse, present an interesting period in Mickey’s life. Despite the fact that Disney had been making color shorts since 1932, Walt kept producing Mickey cartoons in black and white, because he felt that Mickey was already popular enough, and unlike the Silly Symphonies series, didn’t need the added novelty of being in color. So Mickey’s color debut did not come until 1935 in The Band Concert. Walt knew that Mickey’s first color appearance needed to be something special, which is precisely what The Band Concert is.
Genre: Animation
