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July 2007

Oh, dear. This article is a bit of a mess, isn't it? I'll give it a quick once-over, but it needs serious attention from someone with more knowledge and source material than I. -- Karen | Talk | contribs 04:10, 21 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

February 2017

Where's the story of Ub Iwerks death? 11:32 AM, February 14, 2017 (EST)

November 2020

The story here about the creation of Mickey Mouse directly conflicts with the story in the Mickey Mouse entry. They both cite the same source material, but I don't have the book available so I can't sort out who's right.

This entry:

Ub Iwerks eventually got inspiration from an old drawing. In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. Then, on a train ride back from a failed business meeting, Walt Disney came up with the original sketch for the character that was eventually called Mickey Mouse.[10] Afterward, Disney took the sketch to Iwerks. In turn, he drew a more clean-cut and refined version of Mickey, but one that still followed the original sketch.

Mickey Mouse entry:

Walt Disney got the inspiration for Mickey Mouse from a tame mouse at his desk at Laugh-O-Gram Studio in Kansas City, Missouri.[6] In 1925, Hugh Harman drew some sketches of mice around a photograph of Walt Disney. These inspired Ub Iwerks to create a new mouse character for Disney.

IanGreenleaf (talk) 16:32, 19 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Umbrella 2.147.159.121 (talk) 07:45, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"of Dutch descent"?

If His father was born in the village of Uttum in East Frisia (northwest Germany (…)), then he was most likely Frisian, German, or both. Frisians don't automatically self-identify as Dutch if they're from outside of the Netherlands. 195.187.108.130 (talk) 16:37, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The source, Jeff Lenburg's 1993 The Great Cartoon Directors indicates "of Dutch extraction", so that of Dutch descent comes from that citation. We do not know the nationality of Iwerks's mother. Although Britanica] indicates that Iwerks was the son of an immigrant German barber, we do not know from what ancestry his father came. Just because he emigrated from a Frisian or German town does not mean he is of those ancestries.

It may have also been that Iwerks publically identified as Dutch to avoid the anti-German sentiment in the US that arose during WWI. However, without definitive citations that indicate otherwise, any speculation is original research. It is best to stay with the one source that we have, "Lenburg 1993" on the subject of Iwerks's descent. Peaceray (talk) 18:32, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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In Iwerks' FLIP THE FROG era, there was supposed to have been a big censorship argument when one of the characters supposedly made an obscene finger gesture while hitch-hiking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.23.5.11 (talk) 20:37, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]