Chronology of the Walt Disney Company

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1933

January 7
  • The Mickey Mouse film Building a Building is released to theaters. [16] [23] [15] [1378.104] (1931 [13])
  • The first issue of Topolino magazine ("Mickey Mouse" in Italian) is published in Italy. [113.146] (1932 [501.565] [650.50])
January
  • Kay Kamen produces the first Mickey Mouse Magazine. (Over nine months, nine issues are given out at movie theaters and department stores.) [113.142,328] [228.323] [650.50]
January 21
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Mad Doctor is released to theaters. Pluto also appears. [16] [7] [23] [15] [228.302]
February
  • Disney publishes the last issue of Mickey Mouse Melodeon. [113.328]
February 18
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Pal Pluto is released to theaters. Pluto and Minnie Mouse also appear. [16] [23] [228.327] [650.82]
March 11
  • The Silly Symphony film Birds in the Spring is released to theaters. [16] [23] [1378.80]
March 18
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Mellerdrammer is released to theaters. Goofy and Horace Horsecollar also appear. [16] [23] [228.327]
April 8
  • The Mickey Mouse film Ye Olden Days is released to theaters. Dippy Dog (Goofy) and Minnie Mouse also appear. [16] [23] [501.625] (Ye Golden Days [15])
  • The Silly Symphony film Father Noah's Ark is released to theaters. [16] [23] [229.49] [228.176]
May 13
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Mail Pilot is released to theaters. [16] [23] [15] [228.306]
May 27
  • Radio City Music Hall in New York premieres the Silly Symphony film Three Little Pigs. The film cost US$60,000 to produce, but with revenue from merchandising, represents the studio's first profit-making film. [7] [13] [16] [15] [22] [229.49] [34.76] [40.139] [62] [23] [49.240] [90.29] [97.55] [113.109] [209.31] [321.26] [501.553] [1102.185]
June 9
  • Disney cancels William Levy's merchandising contract in England. [113.82]
June
  • Wolfgang Reitherman joins the Disney company. [228.411] [1102.227] (1934 [1371.34])
  • Disney signs a contract with the Ingersoll Watch Company to produce Mickey Mouse watches, and the company sells the first Mickey Mouse watch, for US$3.25. [416.19] [501.599] (Ingersoll-Waterbury [96.75] [228.255])
June 17
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Mechanical Man is released to theaters. Minnie Mouse also appears. [16] [23] [228.327]

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  • A contract is signed between Disney and Whitman Books for a series of childrens books. [228.64]
  • The first Mickey Mouse Club in Britain is formed, at Darlington's Arcade Cinema. [96.81]
  • Hall Brothers Incorporated publishes their first Disney-themed "Happy Birthday" greeting card, featuring Mickey Mouse. [1257.47]
July 1
  • The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Gala Premiere is released to theaters. Minnie Mouse and Pluto also appear. [16] [23] [228.326] (Mickey's Gala Premier [15])
  • Kay Kamen signs his first big merchandising contract with Walt Disney Enterprises. Kamen would receive 40% of receipts on the first US$100,000, and 50% of receipts above that. [113.109]
July
  • Walt Disney takes a business trip to New York, stopping on the way back in Chicago to see the Century of Progress Fair. [1102.192]
July 29
  • The Silly Symphony film Old King Cole is released to theaters. [16] [23]
August 19
  • The Silly Symphony film Lullaby Land is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.298]
September 2
  • The Mickey Mouse film Puppy Love is released to theaters. Pluto and Minnie Mouse also appear. Fifi the dog makes her first appearance. [16] [23] [15] [97.60] [228.403]
September
  • The ninth and last issue of Kay Kamen's original Mickey Mouse Magazine is published. [113.142,328]
September 16
  • The Silly Symphony film The Pied Piper is released to theaters. [16] [23] [228.387]
September 30
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Steeplechase is released to theaters. [16] [23] [501.523]
October 28
  • The Mickey Mouse film The Pet Store is released to theaters. Minnie Mouse also appears. [16] [23] [15] [228.384]
November 10
  • The Fox Film Corporation releases the film My Lips Betray to theaters. The first scene shows a portion of the Mickey Mouse film Ye Olden Days on a TV in a car. Disney provided the 10 foot clip for free. [42.1457] [97.29]
November
  • The second Mickey Mouse Magazine is first published, on behalf of a chain of dairies, to advertise milk products. (The magazine is produced for two years.) [96.78] [113.142,328] [228.323] [650.50]
November 25
  • The Mickey Mouse film Giantland is released to theaters. [15] [228.205] (Giant Land [16])
December 2
  • Clarence Nash joins the Disney studio, as employee number 125. [434.37]
December 9
  • The Silly Symphony film The Night Before Christmas is released to theaters. The film is a sequel to the film Santa's Workshop. [16] [23] [228.357]
December 18
  • Walt Disney receives an award from Parents magazine for the creation of Mickey Mouse. [1102.194]

End of 1933. Next: 1934.

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