Happy Birthday Ub

Happy Birthday to the late great Ub Iwerks, co-creator of Mickey Mouse. One time 20% owner of Disney Bros. Studio. The man who could and did create 700 frames of finished animation a day while animating Plane Crazy, the first Mickey Mouse cartoon animated.

The picture above is from the Steve Worth collection. It was shown hanging on the wall in a famious photo of the Iwerks Studio. It was also rescued from the trash at Film Roman a few years ago.

That says volumes about the need to save our history. Support animation film preservation and support projects like the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archives.


Ub Iwerks was one of the creators of the animation industry and animators should know who he is and what he did to create our art form.