brb1006 Mar 08, 2020

About Mickey's 50's design, that was actually designed by Tom Ore (who would later work on 101 Dalmatians) that was used in various car commercials for a brief period in 1955. He also designed Pinocchio, Gephetto, and Jiminy Cricket in this commercial for Hudson Hornet Cars Alice and the White Rabbit, and Donald Duck and his Nephews (Huey, Dewey, and Louie) for Hudson Wasp Rambler And finally this commercial featuring Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear From the wonderful book 'Cartoon Modern' by Amid Amidi, "There was a little kid that used to write to Walt telling him to stay away from modern art because it's Communistic. So when the commercial came on, he got a letter from this kid, a little malcontent sitting somewhere, and he wrote, "I'm disappointed Walt. I never thought you'd succumb. What happened to you?" and Walt went crazy. He stormed down there and outlawed using any of the Disney characters in the commercials...spelling the end of the unit." These commercials were found from a DVD called "Mid-Century Modern Animation Volume 1" More information on Tom Ore's Mickey design and commercials can be found in this article from MousePlanet Part 1 Part 2