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
Oh Teacher (film) Oh Teacher (film) Oh Teacher (1927) is an animated cartoon made by Walt Disney, starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and distributed by Universal Studios. The film was reissued in 1932 by Walter Lantz Productions with added music and sound effects, and is the only known version to survive. Oswald rides to his girlfriend's house on a bicycle. On the way, he asks a daisy if she loves him in the standard "She loves me/She loves me not" way. A cat then steals Oswald's bike and his girlfriend. Oswald, ready to bludgeon the cat with a brick, patiently waits. The cat