The Real-Life Drama Behind the Birth of Mickey Mouse (feat. Tony Hale) - Drunk History

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Ub Iwerks was Walt Disney’s animation partner, and happened to design a little character by the name of Mickey Mouse.
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@WeirdistBuilds 4 года назад

Ub Iwerks was not just a rockstar for disney. He invented all kinds of insane photographic techniques, including the giant multiplane camera early Disney films used (see: The Old Mill). Later, his techniques were implemented by Alfred Hitchcock to superimpose the birds in, well, The Birds. Dude had a hand in so much hollywood equipment some of it is still used today. This is the equivalent of finding out the person who drew the original smiley face didn't get enough credit for it, but then went ahead and invented half the stuff you see at the dentist.

@The.Golden.Door. 4 года назад

Wow....Had no idea!! Thanks for the info!!!

@vulcaireh2528 4 года назад

Man drew 2 months of work in 2 weeks, what a fricking legend

@tehyalewis2549 4 года назад

Ubisoft???

@vinayseth1114 4 года назад

@@tehyalewis2549 What's that?

@tehyalewis2549 4 года назад

They have put out games like raving rabbid, and indiannia jones etc. For wii

@UchihaKat 4 года назад

I'm happy Ub ended up successful and famous (within his field at least). Seems like he deserved it.

@plartoota4584 4 года назад

MathisMagic yeah I thought he’d end up dying penniless and alone but this actually had a great ending the former friends made up and both became incredibly successful

@evansam96 3 года назад

Trully a Disney ending then .. as it should be XD

@theoddbox 2 года назад

I'm an Ub Iwerks fangirl

@yojimbo3681 4 года назад

So Ub Iwerks was Steve Wozniak to Walt's Steve Jobs.

@Phob1c 4 года назад

Pretty much, yeah.

@Tukstah360 4 года назад

What language am i reading

@OhZordan 4 года назад

@@Tukstah360 Iwerks parents were from Eastern Frisia and Steven Wozniak had his roots in Poland. The US used to be a country were immigrants can flee too, live freely and realize their potential. The next Iwerks or Wozniak is probably somewhere in ICE custody locked in a cage right now.

@michaelfrisby758 4 года назад

OhZordan illegal immigration has never been legal dude. Immigrants that are being deported are in the country illegally period.

@Crosi 4 года назад

@@michaelfrisby758 lmao do you think people showed on Ellis Island with visas and passports? Immigration was incredibly less limited back then, with a lot less regulations: people would just show up, get registered and that was it.

@na3rial 4 года назад

This is so ironic considering Walt later copyrighted a bunch of characters out of public domain and owns the characters animators create even on their off time by policy

@nicodiangelo9810 4 года назад

This is really what kills me. Alex Hirsch can't draw his own characters without Disney's permission. Like. What kind of total control on creativity is that?

@cupajoe99 4 года назад

From a legal standpoint, Disney doesn't completely own the Public Domain characters that they use, they just own their original contributions to the Public Domain characters. Anybody can still make a Cinderella or a Rapunzel movie, they just can't use what Disney added to the story, and have to either use or add to the original.

@cez_is_typing 4 года назад

I’m pretty sure Disney bought back the rights to Oswald the rabbit too pretty recently

@gota7738 4 года назад

It was Disney's villainous origin story .

@bobbybanks6810 4 года назад

He did say he would never not own a character again lol 😂

@ntk8787 4 года назад

The more successful someone is, the less I trust them - just too many stories where the big names we know about didn’t actually do the important work, had the initial idea, contributed to the crucial innovation... however, they have the money to paint their biopics in pretty colours and almost everyone forgets who really brought us Mickey Mouse.

@grendelum 4 года назад

You know how anyone earns a billion dollars? They don’t, it’s stolen from the workers.

@BabsChannel 4 года назад

Walt Disney was successful because he worked his ass off, his success was his own because he earned it. Would he turn into a bit of scoundrel? ab-so-loot-lee, but not without legitimate reason. The man fought tooth and and nail to keep his company afloat for years. He was damn good at his job and that's all I really want to remember him for.

@AL-cg4vb 4 года назад

Cult Leader Greg Walt Disney was a massive racist and disgrace as a human being, just because you want to remember someone a certain way doesn’t mean that’s who they are.

@BabsChannel 4 года назад

@@AL-cg4vb Go on Netflix and look up Floyd Norman. Watch his documentary. Then get back to me on that racist bit.

@AL-cg4vb 4 года назад

Cult Leader Greg you do realize that is own grandniece has stated that he was and still is. The Jungle Book was written during and response to segregation and pushing the message of “staying with your own kind” go ahead and watch whatever glorifying doc you want doesn’t erase the literal bullshit he put people through

@freda2758 4 года назад

Never heard of the guy before this. Not surprising that more hasn't been said about his legacy.

@DuncanUdaho67 4 года назад

Yeah who the fuck is Dizney?

@Nihyre 4 года назад

He’s insanely famous and well recognized

@yojimbo3681 4 года назад

Ub Iwerks was basically the Steve Wozniak of Disney.

@lilliantrosper8944 4 года назад

ARE YOU ALL FUCKING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?????!!!!

@jensenraylight8011 4 года назад

he get oscar, you can't get more recognition more than that he gets a statue that basically can makes everyone bow and worship you

@MasterOfTheChainsaw 4 года назад

Walt Disney vowed, from that day, "not only, will I ever not own any character I create... I will own every other character too!" And then he did.

@QIsForK12 4 года назад

Is that the lead of Sky High as Walt??

@FOWLR4NOW 4 года назад

Kelvin Yessir

@QIsForK12 4 года назад

@@FOWLR4NOW He makes for a surprisingly convincing Walt!

@wendymccoy1093 4 года назад

I was sitting here wondering why he was so familiar lol

@natyinthehouse 4 года назад

My god

@Easy420skate 4 года назад

DUDE I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE! He looked so familiar and then it clicked

@funnytourtoise 4 года назад

Who comes Ub with a name like that, am I right?!

@tomiantenna7279 4 года назад

Yes. You are right.

@dasaggropop1244 4 года назад

i guess it werks though

@ulliulli 4 года назад

His father was a german frisian and "Ub" is short for "Ubbe" (pronounced oob-be) and that means "the bold mind"

@Dreamskater100 4 года назад

@@dasaggropop1244 Lol! I see what you did there!!

@sirajkhan5343 4 года назад

So the man behind the success of Disney didn't get any recognition until now .....

@gota7738 4 года назад

Dudes always been pretty famous amongst animators.

@sacrecharlemagne2262 4 года назад

The dude won an Oscar. He may not have been a household name but he received plenty of recognition by the people who mattered in the industry.

@maludaboin3491 4 года назад

The man behind the success of Disney was Walt Disney. Ub Iwerks did had the recognintion he deserved

@yosefdemby8792 Год назад

@@sacrecharlemagne2262 No no. He was only _nominated_ for an Oscar.

@codyyarbrough9514 4 года назад

Never get so consumed by your passion that you forget about the business. Iwerk, Tesla, Wozniak, all of these guys are geniuses but they forgot to protect their work. Disney got burned once and learned his lesson. At the end of the day, what use is a legacy if you can't pay your bills

@jihef03 4 года назад

That's a fair point. i've been meaning to learn more about animation history, but from I know at the moment, it does seem that Disney was just a sharper businessman than his rivals/ peers.

@NewNew-oe1hf 4 года назад

We can add Bill Finger to that list. He created Batman yet died penniless and alone.

@guitarfan01 3 года назад

Whoever does the scores to these drunk history episodes is incredibly good - the "when you wish upon a star" legally-distinct pastiche in this thing is amazing.

@missybarbour6885 4 года назад

I agree with everyone in the comments saying Ub Iwerks deserves more credit, but make no mistake, Disney fans know this man. Walt drew the original design for Mortimer Mouse, but his wife decided that was a lame name for a kid's cartoon and Ub developed the character more. Ub is a Disney legend.

@christophergordon6250 4 года назад

That's a good history lesson. I never knew of Ub Iwerks. I'm glad I know about him know. Dude basically created Mickey and kept Disney in business after Walt got bamboozled for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

@rexrabbiteer 8 месяцев назад

Of all the animators that left Disney to work on the Oswald cartoons after walt lost control of the character Ub iWerks is the only one who didn’t betray Walt which in turn led to the creation of Mickey Mouse. Walt failed to show ub iWerks the respect he deserved

@HyliaFell 3 года назад

Ub didn't quit working with Disney because he wanted him to draw on a napkin...he quit working with Disney because Disney was taking credit for everything Ub did.

@wolf2912 8 месяцев назад

They both created Oswald and Mickey but Walt is more well known then Ub

@BrakeCoach 6 месяцев назад

Yeah this is more of a dramatic version of it, probably to show how the credit was blatantly stolen at the time

@senpainigga5325 4 года назад

The guy:*Enjoy telling the stories about UB* Also The guy:Wtf kinds of name UB

@mollycblaeser 9 месяцев назад

Walt created the original sketch of Mickey tho on a train. His wife told him not to name the character Mortimer but Mickey instead.

@minionmadness9202 17 дней назад

There are several different interpretations of Mickey Mouse's origin. This is one of many.

@KimberlySchwartz1 4 года назад

The dude from Sky High seriously looks exactly like Walt Disney!!!

@shaungarrett5291 3 года назад

Lol. Sky High. Such a cool movie.

@truefalse934 2 года назад

The resemblance is so spot on !!

@kristov25791 Год назад

After UB Iwerks left Disney he created flip the frog who was the only cartoon character that was forgotten, after his series discontinued he returned back to Disney. As a bonus you can find flip the frog as a cameo at the story of a mouse in Disney plus.

@michaelpipkin9942 4 года назад

In 50 years, Drunk History will be telling the Disney story of Star Wars.

@goodtimesroll8 4 года назад

How about the story of how Disney plagiarized Kimba the White Lion, turned it into The Lion King, promoted their carbon copy as Disney's first original animated film, then suppressed Kimba's screening in the US?

@faith4disney 4 года назад

@@goodtimesroll8 Random but okay.

@marijnr6821 4 года назад

@@goodtimesroll8 kimba was trash

@kdkkat 4 года назад

Is no one else shook that Walt Disney is the guy from SKY HIGH?!!

@Blueeyesinthesky 4 года назад

kdkkat wtf

@erinlee5936 4 года назад

Michael Angarano? Sky High is a Disney film. Just keeping it within the family.

@homesliceheroes6306 4 года назад

Oh shit! I knew that dude looked familiar. I kept thinking "Why does this nigga look familiar? He's not famous yet i know him. Why?"

@rebeccaborochov7480 4 года назад

And now Ub’s granddaughter Leslie Iwerks directed The Imagineering Story docuseries

@goblinman5239 4 года назад

Ub also created the multiplane camera which basically changed the whole way animated films looked(it allowed them to look more 3d and allowed for different effects). The reason the little mermaid was able to look the way it did was due to Ub's multiplane camera. Animation is done digitally now but literally the multiplane camera still exists via animation software. Ub also never really sought fame and just really loved his craft and invention. I respect the hell out of Ub and animation would be drastically different without him.

@charmanderree4551 4 года назад

Aka how Disney ruined copyright laws

@catalinacurio 4 года назад

Walt’s mouse, what a legacy, can still get caught in watching one after the other with my nephew who hasn’t seen them before. 😊 🐭

@fatehalfenni6621 4 года назад

I will never not own them ...! Short history: Mickey is a REACTION 2 Oswald!

@devinkk 4 года назад

and he's based off of minstrel show characters...and is knockoff of Bosco

@buster3041 4 года назад

@@devinkk Bosko came after mickey. But all those rubber hose stars are clones of felix the cat. But felix was based on charlie chaplin while his clones were based on minstrel shows.

@ashlyarsenic7253 4 года назад

I really like these! This one was awesome!!

@YoannBomal_Dessin 4 года назад

I LOVE Ub Iwerks, he created the Design of Mickey Mouse... But this video is just rewriting history. Walt came up with the idea of Synchronized sound that made Mickey blow up...

@The.Golden.Door. 4 года назад

Wow!! This was dope!! All from the synchronicity of motion animation and sound.

@julesking1303 4 года назад

I feel like Derek kinda owned at his role as “douchey Universal producer”

@jasonkent7858 4 года назад

We had to learn about this in film school. My teacher also mentioned that in an episode of Ren and Stimpy, Stimpy is doing a ritual dancing on the edge of a vat of lard, shouting supposedly random nonsense, and one of the things he babbles out is "Ub Iwerks"

@nopethanks9305 4 года назад

Hello... today we’re talking about *ubbeyeworks*

@amybeerbower7176 4 года назад

LinoDino 19 Ub Iwerks

@nopethanks9305 4 года назад

Amy Beerbower I am aware

@carolineyou1012 4 года назад

Dude finally asked what we were wondering this whole time, “what the f kind of name’s UB?”

@cartoonjoe 4 года назад

His full name was Ubbe Ert Iwwerks.

@uncletrick1 4 года назад

If you want more in depth info on Ub, check out the documentary called “The hand behind the mouse”

@johnnythunders78 4 года назад

It's crazy how Michael Angarano looks so much like uncle Walt!

@BabsChannel 4 года назад

No he doesn't.

@IrontwistFiM 4 года назад

holy shit that's the dude from Sky High THAT'S WILL POWERS

@buster3041 4 года назад

Naw the dude from american pie, who played walt in the film 'Walt Before Mickey' was a better fit.

@marissawolff8491 6 месяцев назад

@@BabsChannel Yes, he does.

@138veronica 4 года назад

I'm disappointed that Mary Winkler, female film distributor and Charle Mintz's wife who gave him his tyrannical power, and Lillian Disney, who was responsible for inking and naming Mickey in several shorts with several other loyal female employees, were not mentioned in the story. But this is Ub's story so let it rip!

@benburke3015 4 года назад

Love the discount "When you wish upon a star" music at the beginning lol.

@allamerican0973 6 месяцев назад

this was informational and hilarious!

@JacobLucasSorenson 4 года назад

I always thought he was called Mortimer mouse first

@faith4disney 4 года назад

He was, but Walt's wife Lillian suggested the name change.

@Italiandanish 4 года назад

the fade onto the poster was really good

@Shebellaz 4 года назад

This make so much sense to Disney world and Universal studios 🤔

@NFSF1McLaren 4 года назад

I don't think it's surprising Tony Hale is in this since he was in three Disney proprieties this year (Forky in _Toy Story 4_ , Pie King in _Star vs. the Forces of Evil_ and that Veep frog in _Amphibia_ )

@calebkuti7897 3 года назад

Technically Alvin and the chipmunks 4 is a Disney movie now

@AmandaaRose 4 года назад

I was hoping he would share Mickey's first/original name being Mortimer smh

@mnmdisney 4 года назад

LILY was having NONE of "Mortimer ", YEA LILY !!

@betsywinter9661 4 года назад

Yaaaaasssss

@Firepaw20011 4 года назад

And how they changed his look multiple times before they settled on the original.

@raymoten2421 4 года назад

Okay.. I was born and raised in orlando fl, my aunt and uncle retired from disney world, and I know almost every disney movie by heart. But this is my first time ever hearing about Ub. Poor guy

@gabbifufuu5590 4 года назад

I love this series keep it going pls

@kate2create738 3 года назад

Technically Ub didn't come up with Mickey Mouse, he just redrafted Mickey's design to something that was manageable to animate. Walt had to think of a backup plan after Oswald was just taken from him, he was with his wife on a train back to LA from New York, and it was there he created Mickey. While Walt was creative and a great entrepreneur, he lacked the art skills to be presentable. That was all on Ub, but Ub's legacy was never dismissed and is acknowledged for his work in Disney franchise, including designing the Mouse himself.

@FeralHydra75 4 года назад

"You could give me the deed to Kansas City and I still wouldn't stay there" - Walt Disney

@fullofgrace92 3 года назад

Being from Kansas City, this is untrue. He came back frequently and was proud of his Midwest roots.

@shrutikirtitripathi8501 4 года назад

drunk history is just too good👍👍

@ezekiel27807 4 года назад

Pretty sure that black dude would have not been invited to a Walt Disney premiere of any kind..

@ezekiel27807 4 года назад

Especially sitting beside a white women right behind him.. If that did happened sad to say he was the entertainment for the after party.. Smh movie and a picnic

@jasobres 4 года назад

Very true. James Baskett, who played Uncle Remus in the controversial 1946 film _Song of the South,_ was not allowed to attend the premiere.

@lonelyboysole 4 года назад

yeah this was when racist cartoons was a thing

@-wd40-66 4 года назад

Brer Rabbit?

@DuncanUdaho67 4 года назад

Yeah because this is totally a Ken Burns documentary and not Drunk History. 🙄

@thatsoccerkid2561 4 года назад

Do a drunk history of drunk history 🤯

@KR-qh5rs 4 года назад

2:43 I wonder how many nap times Ub Iwerks blew past doing this 😂😂

@fakeascanbe423 3 года назад

3:03 Let's take a minute to marvel at the genius on Tony Hale

@gavonm4955 4 года назад

This is the only Comedy Central series I watch

@fatehalfenni6621 4 года назад

I will never not own them ...!

@PhillyFrank1 4 года назад

That last line -- exactly what I was wondering through the whole video..

@DudeFarooqi 3 года назад

Walt Disney went from not owning his own characters to owning everybody else's

@xxNao113xx 4 года назад

I love drunk history but as a Disney fan, I need to correct this video. Walt Disney saw a mice running on a train and he sketched it and that’s how he came up with Mickey Mouse (originally named Mortimer Mouse until Walt’s wife changed it)

@faith4disney 4 года назад

That's what I thought, then Ub started to develop Mickey even more.

@doopiss 4 года назад

True, Walt came up with the initial concept with the final more recognizable design being done by Iwerks

@maludaboin3491 4 года назад

And precisely that's why Walt is/was the creator of Mickey. Not Ub Iwerks as actual interests are trying so hard to entablish

@cez_is_typing 4 года назад

From what I remember, Walt went bankrupt for sometime and sat on the streets, then one day a mouse wandered out next to him, he took it into his drawing studio with him and kept it as a pet for a few days

@teresarivera3647 2 года назад

Actually Walt befriended a mouse who lived in the office he kept in KC. Story goes that when Walt left, he took the mouse and set it free behind the office building so another tenant's cat wouldn't hurt it.

@emmagrove6491 3 года назад

Not too far from the truth, actually. Ub may have been able to draw better than Walt, but, personality-wise, Mickey was all Walt.

@AshaEll 4 года назад

What the what, I had no idea. Ub Iwerks deserves more recognition.

@headlight31 4 года назад

When it comes to money, people just becomes monsters.

@ericthatsme 4 года назад

n1ko Yup.

@OneofInfinity. 4 года назад

Greed brings the worst in people out.

@kittens4jc1031 4 года назад

Me before watching the vid: They better mention my boy. Me @1:10: THANK YOU *sobs* MY SWEET BABY BOY

@electro2781 4 года назад

what

@HjCrawford 4 года назад

🤦

@Deadman1000 2 года назад

Walt would be proud he did end up owning all his characters and years later, everyone else's.

@missb5581 4 года назад

Binge-watching drunk history during quarantine is the best especially because I love to drink 🍺🍻🥂🍾🍷🥃🍸🍹

@cheryl5667 3 года назад

Aw that's cool that you put the kid from Red State in there!!!!! Also Tony is still killing it!

@laurenb2561 4 года назад

Tony hale just in every drunk history

@PerspectiveEngineer 4 года назад

My favorite animator ever, right next to Max and Dave. And their crazy cat Cab... I'm starting to wonder if my Oswald the rabbit cartoons worth any money now...

@fhdream 4 года назад

I almost thought this said Matt and Dave, which is the name of the creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. lol

@joinsideke 4 года назад

Man I love Oswald. Disney finally got him back and all they've done with him is put him in a mediocre game.

@buster3041 4 года назад

3 mediocre games with only the first having a good story.

@joinsideke 4 года назад

@@buster3041 There was a third?

@buster3041 4 года назад

@@joinsideke The 3ds game remember?

@joinsideke 4 года назад

@@buster3041 I thought that was the second.

@buster3041 4 года назад

@@joinsideke Ironically 3ds, in epic mickey's case, should stands for 3rd disney story.

@22espec 2 года назад

I'm suprised he didn't mention Mortimer, Mickey's first nme before his wife made him change it

@wolf2912 8 месяцев назад

That was Walt wife not Ub

@jasobres 4 года назад

Many years later, Disney would buy back Oswald from Universal when they traded the rights to Oswald for moving sportscaster Al Michaels from ABC to NBC.

@homesliceheroes6306 4 года назад

Yeah and do jack shit with the character. Great job disney.

@randomdudeonyoutube3504 2 года назад

@@homesliceheroes6306 they did a lot they uhh.....they put him in 2 games and.......put him in Disney world.......only to not use him again......he made a cameo and uh....ok they do nothing with Oswald

@Nick-ty9us Год назад

Again, he was Walt Disney’s right hand man

@ViveUltimate 4 года назад

Kind of like Steve Jobs and the original Macintosh

@cranberrysauce6478 4 года назад

*Thanks Ub*

@rebeccaspear9750 4 года назад

Mickey mousing is still a musical term taught at universities. How interesting that Ub Iwerks was the one to think of that style 😄

@kevincolbertjr.6844 4 года назад

Damn,I had no idea. This definitely taught me something else,that was never really talked about at Walt Disney World in all of my years going there.

@davidcattin7006 3 года назад

He amazingly evokes Walt Disney!

@zozi6191 4 года назад

Ub just kinda reminds me of that magician comedy sketch

@cheesecakelasagna 4 года назад

Reminds me of the story of Diane Keane, the basis of the movie Big Eyes.

@gmunden1 4 года назад

Walt Disney said "Yo"? LOL

@AriefLatif 3 года назад

A bit too sober 😂😂😂

@ThatCyndi 4 года назад

Walt was such a maniac of a boss to work for he even drove out his animator/screenwriter/concept creator BILL PEET

@revmotor 4 года назад

This was low key terrifying.

@huemulincomic 2 года назад

Había escuchado que Ub aprovechando la huelga en los estudios Disney regresa. Pero no fue asignado como jefe de animación ya su animación era "anticuada" (perteneciente a la primera fase de los dibujos animados) Y que por ello fue asignado al departamento de efectos especiales donde demostró, una vez más, su genio.

@Dreamskater100 4 года назад

Brilliant! (I can't find the one on OK Corall- Wyatt Earp one with Murr: from Impractical Jokers, James Murr. Anyone know?)

@starkidchickie928 4 года назад

This is not entirely accurate. Walt had the idea of a mouse character before Oswald. He called him Mortimer Mouse, and that’s where Mickey came from. It was Ub’s idea, but Walt had the basic idea of it already.