Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

[Liebling05]

Long live Ub Iwerks' legacy! Without him there would be no Disney :)

[KelticNuts]

Disney was involved in his "Alice" series of "cartoons" for Universal (pre- Disney studio days) when Oswald was born, thanks in large part due to Ub Iwerks. Universal didn't like having a middle man, regardless if it was the creator, in anything they didn't have full control of...so they organized a take over of Oswald and Alice and took many of Disney's artists with them.

At this time, Disney knew what was going on but actually powerless to stop it.

[KelticNuts]

He tried to reason with Universal, even going back east by train to talk with the company...the trip was a failure. On the way back...details are a bit fuzzy...Mickey was born. Once back in LA, Disney went to Ub who took up the project of Mickey, who at the time was called Mortimer. (Mrs. Disney liked the name).

While finishing up work on the last of the Oswald and Alice installments they were contracted to do, Ub would work on "Mortimer" key frames....

[KelticNuts]

...the man was incredible. He would work on "Mortimer" all day, but have drawings of Oswald on his desk to throw over his work in case any employee would walk by and see it...Universal couldn't own "Mortimer", but they could damn sure make life difficult for Disney to get "Mortimer" launched. Since Disney had absolutely no idea which artist were helping Universal everything Ub was doing had to be kept secret...

[KelticNuts]

...but as Disney's number 1 artist Ub couldn't hide out anywhere without causing suspicions.

By the time the contract for Universal were completed, Ub had key framed and roughed out entire "Mortimer" cartoons, all that was needed was for a clean up artist to flesh them out.

[KelticNuts]

Disney Studios was born thanks to the efforts of this man. He walked from Disney of his own, because another company years later was trying to copy Disney's success and knew they needed a Disney artist of Ub's calibre to do it with...the birth of Comi-Color cartoons. Unfortunately, Ub was deceived and used and ended back up at Disney anyway, but the damage to the relationship was done.

[5star555555555]

Chriddof sent me here.

[HyperSonicXtreme]

WTF Aladdin was a maid?

Cinderella much?

[lolanimations]

looks like some perfect YTP material. did anyone get to this yet?

[skinnerburgers]

Married? Aren't they about eight?

[eigi717]

"new lamps.. for old...!" =))

[hotties3v3n]

i remember watching this when i was little...

[Titchbert]

how interestingly racist.

a white white princess in the middle east.

one thinks most peculiar.

[Sodeggy]

Didn't know the Sultan had indoor plumbing.

[brcbrtn]

naseem1986- you are a strange person.

kiliris44 - I prefer the Disney version too, but these old cartoons were made to go WITH the main feature, not to BE the main feature. The great Ub Iwerks, who used to partner with Walt Disney, made this cartoon AND was the man who created Micky Mouse!

[kiliris44]

I prefer Disney's version!

[naseem1986]

once upon a time there was a small boy in toronto who use to cry when he was 6 months old. cry like keke keke and when he become old he never did that thing

[naseem1986]

Alladin's father was a terrorist in islamabad so he ran away and ate a bun kebab wich he bought at the thrift store.the he robbed the bank and married pricess jasmine by thretining her that give her the kingdom or else.the srk came and made a movie in the palace but alladin said thatu will have to pay 1 cent to make the movie.after that he met indiana jones so he could help him find the lamp with the genie.but ij turned into a monkey called abu.Alladin was sued and had three wishes and that bye

[Rosssia]

u forgot how alladin threw away the lamp, and osama binladen found it and wished for weapons of mass destruction

[naseem1986]

BOBO IS COCO AND COCO IS BOBO

[naseem1986]

ALLADIN KILLED HIS FATHER

[naseem1986]

BADRUDEEN AND KARMALI BAPA

[HipHop101Tv]

shyts dope

[RockmanNeka2]

did that old woman just gave the sorcerer the finger?! O.o XD

[EternalMessiah]

"A magic lamp....it's colossal!"

XD

[lynnosburn]

Ahhh. Good old fashioned family racism.

[lizardlove1]

what does this have to do with futerama

[Mirani2]

Is this the one where the sultan blows the nose bubble in his sleep?

[Salierethefish]

I find it suspicious that Aladdin is the innocent, pluckyw hite boy, the Sultan is the nasty dark-skinned man, and the evil sorceror looks suspiciously like caricartues of Jews in editions of 'Der Sturmer' from pre-WW2.

[ChuckAndNancy]

I really loved the young princess in the bath... wow!!!

[jimmyjam9014]

he didnt make mickey mouse, he probably helped produce it but didnt make it. walt disney made mickey mouse and his wife named him.

[klownie]

ub iwerks created mickey mouse...disney just thought of ideas for the stories and such, iwerks did the character design and animations

[jimmyjam9014]

no walt disney thought and drew him, and had iwerks make the finished character duh

[klownie]

nope. i think id know..im an animation student, all my teachers say so, plus i did a research project on him. :]

[klownie]

nope. i think id know..im an animation student, all my teachers say so, plus i did a research project on him. :]

[jimmyjam9014]

in my whole life i did twelve, ive have done many animation classes, painted with the guy who was taught by the guy who taught bob ross(hope that made sense) watched and read to many biographies about his company and about walt disney, my dad is an ex imagineer and my dads' friends' son is a ex imagineer too. so i think i would know

[walpert09]

i think u are living in a cartoon land, in real life u recieve dole benefits.

[TomPreston6]

@klownie I'd like you to cite sources. As someone with a BFA in animation I would think that I would've heard that story before. All the stories I've heard were about Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, not Mickey Mouse. iwerks stole the rights to Oswald from Walt, and in desperation Walt created Mickey Mouse as a replacement. That's what all the animation history books and sources I could find say...

[inorcistartist]

Oh yeeeeaaah, I know this movie, it rocks! This is the lovely old-fashion interpertation of Arabia. I like the traircase at 1:19. Ub Iwerks is good, isn´t he the guy who originally created Mickey Mouse?

[joyhorse13]

Disney eat your hearts out

[GOTHMIDNIGHTMERMAID]

I have this (on one of my UB Iwerks cartoons that times forgot dvd I don't have volume 3 or I think there's a 4th dvd too I'm not sure.)

[tigerlillium]

I've never seen this version of Aladdin. cute.

[stevenatme]

I love the music to that short film.

You should had seen my movie "The Little Match Girl" that I made.

[hiei66d]

i love it

[JA268]

This is another of my favorite shorts from Ub Iwerks