Live-action animated film match with a live kitten. In a variation from this and inspired to do so Walt Disney's first directorial efforts, years before Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was born in 1927 and Mickey Mouse in 1928, were the live-action animated "Alice Comedies" cartoons, in which a young live-action girl named Alice interacted with animated cartoon characters. Many previous films combining live action with stop-motion animation using back projection, such as Willis O'Brien and Ray Harryhausen films in the United States, and Aleksandr Ptushko, Karel Zeman and more recently Jan Švankmajer in Eastern Europe. The first feature film to do this was
The Toy Shoppe is as he had left it except for the broken jester on the floor. He believes the damage was the work of the rat and ponders how to get rid of the rodent. Universal was given a chance to have some of their black and white cartoons colorized. The film "The Toy Shoppe" was used for the testing. For undisclosed reasons, Universal turned down the colorization offer. The Toy Shoppe The Toy Shoppe is a short animated film produced by Walter Lantz Productions, and is one of the many with the character Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. While the film was