  the golden age of american animation was a period in the history of u.s. animation that began with the advent of sound cartoons in 1928 and continued until the late 1960s when theatrical animated shorts began losing to the new medium of television animation. many popular characters emerged from this period, including mickey mouse, bugs bunny, donald duck, daffy duck, popeye, tom and jerry, betty boop, woody woodpecker, and the first animated adaptation of superman. feature length animation also began during this period, most notably with walt disney's first films: snow white and the seven dwarfs, pinocchio, fantasia, dumbo and bambi. ==walt disney productions== shortly after returning to kansas city, missouri from world war i, walt disney decided to become a newspaper cartoonist drawing political caricatures and comic strips.gabler, neal, 2006, walt disney: the triumph of american imagination, page 42-44, alfred a. knopf, new york city, us however nobody would hire disney, so his older brother roy, who was working as a banker at the time, got him a job at the pesmen-rubin art studio where he created advertisements for newspapers, magazines, and movie theaters.gabler, neal, 2006, walt disney: the triumph of american imagination, page 44-45, alfred a. knopf, new york city, us here he met fellow cartoonist ub iwerks, the two quickly became friends and in january 1920, when their time at the studio expired they decided to open up their own advertising agency together called iwerks-disney commercial artists.gabler, neal, 2006, walt disney: the triumph of american imagination, page 45, alfred a. knopf, new york city, us the business however got off to a rough start and walt temporarily left for the kansas city film and ad co. to raise money for the fleeting company and iwerks soon followed as he was unable to run the business alone.gabler, neal, 2006, walt disney: the triumph of american imagination, page 51, alfred a. knopf, new york city, us whilst working here he made commercials for local theaters using crude cut-out animation. disney became fascinated by the art and decided to become an animator.gabler, neal, 2006, walt disney: the triumph of american imagination, page 52, alfred a. knopf, new york city, us he then borrowed a camera from work and rented a book from the local library called animated cartoons: how they are made, their origin and development by edwin g. lutz and decided that cel animation would produce better quality and decided to open up his own animation studio.gabler, neal, 2006, walt disney: the triumph of american imaginat
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