Name the American film cartoonist who created Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

Warner Brothers
Walt Disney
Steven Spielberg
Barbera

The correct answer is Walt Disney.

Walt Disney was an American film producer, animator, entrepreneur, and voice actor. A pioneer in the American animation industry, he was the co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became The Walt Disney Company. Disney is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of animation and is often credited with having laid the foundations for the modern American animation industry.

Disney was born in Chicago, Illinois, on December 5, 1901. He began his career in animation in 1920, when he joined the Kansas City Film Ad Company. In 1923, he and his brother Roy O. Disney founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, which later became Walt Disney Productions. The studio’s first major success was the short film Steamboat Willie (1928), which introduced the world to Mickey Mouse.

In the 1930s, Disney produced a series of critically and commercially successful animated shorts, including The Three Little Pigs (1933), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), and Pinocchio (1940). In 1935, he founded the Walt Disney Studios, which produced a number of live-action films, including Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965).

Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, at the age of 65. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1983.

Warner Brothers is an American media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in Burbank, California. It is one of the Big Five American film studios, along with Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and 20th Century Studios.

Steven Spielberg is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful filmmakers in history. Spielberg has directed some of the highest-grossing and critically acclaimed films of all time, including Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), and Schindler’s List (1993).

Hanna-Barbera Productions was an American animation studio founded in 1957 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The studio produced a number of popular animated television series, including The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Scooby-Doo. Hanna-Barbera was acquired by Warner Bros. in 1996.

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