Happy 80th Birthday to Fiddlesticks, the First Color Cartoon With Sound
On August 16, 1930, some eight years after he created Mickey Mouse for Walt Disney, animator Ub Iwerks debuted his newest cartoon, Fiddlesticks. It was the first to combine sound and color, setting the course for the entire animation industry. While many animations, including Iwerks’ 1928 Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie, had featured synchronized sound,…
