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
Cartoon physics a cliff, gravity has no effect until the character notices. In words attributed to Art Babbitt, an animator with the Walt Disney Studios: "Animation follows the laws of physics—unless it is funnier otherwise." Specific reference to "cartoon physics" extends back at least to June 1980, when an article "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion" appeared in "Esquire". A version printed in V.18 No. 7 p. 12, 1994 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in its journal helped spread the word among the technical crowd, which has expanded and refined the idea. These laws are outlined on dozens of websites.