![]() ![]() ![]() So, perforce, the shorts required a central comic character-and Julius provided this. ![]() Alice was not a comic role-and anyway it would have been a bit much to expect seven‑year‑old children to take on the burden of being humorists. However, Julius’ real raison d’être was that Disney’s distributor Charles Mintz wanted the shorts to be packed with as many visual gags as possible. And even before the Alice Comedies, the evolution of the character of Julius can be traced back to the cats that appeared in some of the Laugh‑O‑gram shorts-notably the eponymous star of Puss in Boots. But before there was Oswald there was a little cat named Julius, one of the first and most prominent characters created by Walt Disney for the Alice Comedies. Everyone knows that before Mickey Mouse there was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. ![]()
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