Ye Olden Days Ye Olden Days Ye Olden Days is a 1933 animated short film by Disney and which is in turn loosely based on the historical novel "Ivanhoe" by Sir Walter Scott. It was directed by Burt Gillett and produced by Walt Disney. Set in Europe, during the Middle Ages, Mickey Mouse, the wandering minstrel, rides on his donkey whilst strumming on his lute, singing his own song. Inside the castle, the princess Minnie and the prince Dippy Dawg, (Goofy), are about to marry each other. But Princess Minnie slaps the prince in the face three times and she did not like
The Walt Disney Company with Disney as a production partner. Walt and Roy Disney formed Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio that same year. More animated films followed after Alice. In January 1926, with the completion of the Disney studio on Hyperion Street, the Disney Brothers Studio's name was changed to the Walt Disney Studio. After the demise of the "Alice" comedies, Disney developed an all-cartoon series starring his first original character, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was distributed by Winkler Pictures through Universal Pictures. The distributor owned Oswald, so Disney only made a few hundred dollars. Disney completed 26 "Oswald" shorts before losing the contract