#gallopin

[adventurelandia]

The Gallopin Gaucho (1928)

[jwcartoonist]

Gallopin' Gaucho inspired Mickey.

[new-employeeamillion]

The past week has seen a big fuss in the cartoon community over the expiration of Mickey Mouse’s copyright, meaning that after 96 years, his first 3 shorts are now public domain and free for anyone to use (although the added soundtracks to the first 2 are still under copyright until next year).

Everyone’s been preparing for this moment for a long time, ever since Disney got copyright laws extended in 1998. Already, there’s been a lot of people uploading the shorts everywhere without consequence to stick it to the man, and I’ve seen more dark and twisted interpretations of Steamboat Willie in 5 days than my entire life. It’s all been fascinating to see, and while I would be one to participate in such squalor, I’m holding off some energy for next year’s copyright expirations.

12 more Mickey Mouse shorts enter the public domain next year, and conveniently enough, it’s the rest of the catalogue to be animated by Ub Iwerks. That gives me the opportunity to make a video documentary about “the early years of Mickey Mouse”, going frame by frame if I want to, without any threat of a takedown. Of course, I like to believe nearly all my videos are protected under the purposes of analysis and critique, but you can never be too careful with companies like Disney. And that’s just what I plan to be when I make that video next year- too careful.

Milestones that expire next year include:

-The Opry House, the first time Mickey wears gloves in a cartoon

-The Plowboy, the first appearance of Horace Horsecollar (and maybe of Clarabelle Cow)

-The Carnival Kid, Mickey’s first audible dialogue (meaning you better be careful to not use his iconic falsetto voice for the meantime)

-Mickey’s Follies, the first appearance of original Mickey Mouse theme song, Minnie’s Yoo Hoo

-The Haunted House, a low key sequel to the premiere of Silly Symphonies, The Skeleton Dance, which is also going public on New Years Day 2025

[humanoidhistory]

The Gallopin’ Gaucho (1928)

[pocket-deer-boy]

i really do want people to explain to me how something like steamboat willie being 'public domain' works. Is Mickey Mouse, the character, public domain? because he's had hundreds if not literally thousands of appearences in tons of different media over the past century. I'm assuming, say Epic Mickey for the wii isn't public domain because that's barely 10 years old. But if that isn't public domain and it contains Mickey Mouse, did the people who make Epic Mickey still have ownership over Mickey Mouse the character? Or does that not matter.

[infernothechaosgod]

IGNORE EVERYTHING

What are we naming mickeys drunk gianormous ostrich that can fold itself like a chair and would probably lose a fight with air if left alone

The icon the legend the one and only true king the absolute icon with less that 5 golden minutes of screentime

I personaly suggest the name stefan

[howlingday]

Yang: You think Rube's a hundred to one shot?

Ruby: (Trips on her cape, Lands headfirst into a bucket)

Weiss: ...No. She's all shot.

[titleknown]

Given all the stuff folks've been doing with Steamboat Willie, I'm surprised folks haven't been doing much with this, considering it also lapsed into the Public domain and it also lacks certain... problematic elements from Plane Crazy (And also Plane Crazy's only half PD, it's complicated).

It has Mickey riding a drunk ostrich! That's always fun!

[rjalker]

Public Domain Mickey animations you can watch in the highest quality I've found on the web archive:

The Gallopin Gaucho

Plane Crazy

Steamboat Willie

Update: Here's an HD version of Steamboat Willie from wikipedia!

[evenstarfalls]

Jfc I'm gonna start sending snipers after people spreading misinformation about Mickey losing copyright

[eb-the-gamer]

Jorge R. Gutierrez style (to the best of my ability) Gallopin Gaucho!

You realize Steamboat Willie wasn't the only short from that year to become public domain, ye?

[acornerofnowhere]

For decades, the Disney Corporation has lobbied to extend copyright law in order to maintain a stranglehold over its most bankable characters, leading to Mickey Mouse not entering public domain in the US for 95 years.

Now ask yourselves a question, why did they stop doing that? Having bent the law to their whims for longer than most of us have been alive, why is Disney now perfectly sanguine about Steamboat Willie entering public domain and allowing any Tom, Dick or Nazi to slap their company mascot onto a crappy horror knock-off and tarnish their image? Answer's obvious really, Mickey doesn't matter to them anymore, they got massive swathes of human culture under their drum for many decades to come.

Also a helpful reminder that while the silent versions of The Gallopin' Gaucho and Plane Crazy are now public domain as well, their sound versions won't be until next year.

Still nuts I can slap this on a t-shirt and sell it in Primark and nobody can stop me. I had tons of fun coming up with the old-timey dialogue.

[quillandrapier]

Im getting quite tired of people without knowledge of public domain and ip law saying "Here's what you can do with mickey mouse" and it's all just claims they've read in other twitter post which has a twitter post below it contradicting it.

Look I think what most people are doing are actually fine, as they have been doing for years. I just would hate to see artist lose out on their lively hoods because they took bad advice believe it to be good.

Anyway the best source I've seen so far is this one

[prententiousjackal]

There were 3 different pieces of Mickey Mouse Media released in 1928: Steamboat Willie, Gallopin' Gaucho, and a color ad. Enjoy your new inspiration for fan fiction, sellable fan fiction.

Steamboat Willie

The Gallopin' Gaucho

Mickey Mouse Stock Poster (Celebrity Productions, 1928). One Sheet | Lot #83117 | Heritage Auctions (ha.com)

Technically only these versions of Mickey Mouse have entered the public domain and not later renditions of Mickey Mouse. But perhaps you could take a little bit of creative freedom from the source material and make stuff that just so happens to look like later Mickey Mouse.

But you might want to stay on the safe side. When Winnie the Poo came into Public Domain there was advice about not giving him a red shirt, and instead sticking with black and white or giving him some other color shirt like a blue shirt. Likewise with Mickey Mouse, you could stick to either black and white or the color scheme from the color ad.

Black and White: No gloves, White Pants, White Shoes. Color: Yellow Gloves, Red Pants, Brown Shoes.

[marcelskittels]

Giulio Ciccone, Tony Gallopin, Mads Pedersen, Mattias Skjelmose, Alex Kirsch & Jasper Stuyven of Lidl-Trek prior to the 110th Tour de France 2023, Stage 12 a 168.8km stage from Roanne to Belleville-en-Beaujolais on July 13, 2023 in Roanne, France (Photos by Michael Steele/Getty Images)

[thejdblog]

El Gaucho.