Despite copyright arm-twisting and laws that saw Steamboat Willie ’s status extended to this year in 1998 thanks to then-Rep. Sonny Bono and the so-called Mickey Mouse Protection Act, Mickey ...

Both are grappled with in “Mickey: The Story of a Mouse,” a new documentary that will debut at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas, on Saturday and will be headed to Disney+ later this year.

Mickey Mouse was making his silver-screen debut, including in “ The Gallopin’ Gaucho ” (1928). “On one of his trips, he must have seen the famous mouse,” Ms. Blasco said.

This was Mickey Mouse, who’d been previously introduced in a short called “Plane Crazy,” under the production of the Walt Disney Company, animated by Disney himself and Ub Iwerks.

You may have heard that Mickey was inspired by a pet mouse that Walt Disney had here in Kansas City at the Laugh-O-Gram Studio. Or that he came up the idea for Mickey on a train from New York to ...

Except for one sketch showing Mickey Mouse in uniform, Disney’s most famous character, an easygoing soul, is notably absent from war-related footage, ceding such roles to the pugnacious Donald Duck.

Audiences continued to adore the lovable little rodent. Mickey Mouse, “in a few months’ time, has become a star and worth a star’s billing,” film critic C.A. Lejeune wrote in 1929.

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Stephen A. Geppi has made the largest comic-book donation ever to the Library of Congress. Items from his collection go on display Tuesday.