Editing Mickey Mouse (section)

====Color films (1935–1953)====
[[File:Mickey - The Band Concert.png|thumb|left|Mickey in ''[[The Band Concert]]'' (1935)]]

Mickey first appeared animated in color in ''[[Parade of the Award Nominees]]'' in 1932; however, the film strip was created for the [[5th Academy Awards]] ceremony and was not released to the public. Mickey's official first color film came in 1935 with ''[[The Band Concert]]''. The [[Technicolor]] film process was used in the film production. Here Mickey conducted the ''[[William Tell Overture]]'', but the band is swept up by a tornado. It is said that conductor [[Arturo Toscanini]] so loved this short that, upon first seeing it, he asked the projectionist to run it again. In 1994, ''The Band Concert'' was voted the third-greatest cartoon of all time in a poll of animation professionals. By colorizing and partially redesigning Mickey, Walt put Mickey back on top once again. Mickey reach new heights of popularity.<ref name="solomon1">{{cite web|url=http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/mickeymousegoldenage/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611022804/http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/mickeymousegoldenage/index.html|archive-date=June 11, 2008|title=The Golden Age of Mickey Mouse|author=Solomon, Charles|publisher=Disney.com guest services}}</ref> Also in 1935, Walt would receive a special award from the [[League of Nations]] for creating Mickey.

The second half of the 1930s saw the character [[Goofy]] reintroduced as a series regular. Together, Mickey, Donald Duck, and Goofy would go on several adventures together. Several of the films by the comic trio are some of Mickey's most critically acclaimed films, including ''[[Mickey's Fire Brigade]]'' (1935), ''[[Moose Hunters]]'' (1937), ''[[Clock Cleaners]]'' (1937), ''[[Lonesome Ghosts]]'' (1937), ''[[Boat Builders (film)|Boat Builders]]'' (1938), and ''[[Mickey's Trailer]]'' (1938). Also during this era, Mickey was the star in ''[[Brave Little Tailor]]'' (1938), an adaptation of ''[[The Valiant Little Tailor]]'', which was nominated for an Academy Award.

[[File:Fantasia poster, 1940 (Style B).jpg|thumb|Mickey's appearance was redesigned in ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'' (1940) to show white eyes with pupils.]]
In 1939, Mickey appeared in ''[[Mickey's Surprise Party]]'', along with Minnie, with a new design, which included [[pupils]]. Later on, in 1940, the character appeared in his first feature-length film, ''Fantasia''. The film used the redesigned version of Mickey with the pupils.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Culhane |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/waltdisneysfanta00culh/page/80/mode/2up |title=Walt Disney's Fantasia |publisher=Harry N. Abrams Inc. |year=1983 |isbn=978-3-8228-0393-6 |pages=80–84 |url-access=registration}}</ref> His screen role as [[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]], set to the [[symphonic poem]] of the same name by [[Paul Dukas]], is perhaps the most famous segment of the film and one of Mickey's most iconic roles. The [[apprentice]] (Mickey), not willing to do his chores, puts on the sorcerer's magic hat after the sorcerer goes to bed and casts a spell on a broom, which causes the broom to come to life and perform the most tiring chore—filling up a deep well using two buckets of water. When the well eventually overflows, Mickey finds himself unable to control the broom, leading to a near-flood. After the segment ends, Mickey is seen in silhouette shaking hands with conductor [[Leopold Stokowski]]. Mickey has often been pictured in the red robe and blue sorcerer's hat in merchandising. It was also featured into the climax of [[Fantasmic!]], an attraction at the Disney theme parks.

After 1940, Mickey's popularity declined until his 1955 re-emergence as a daily children's television personality.<ref>{{cite web|last=Solomon|first=Charles|title=Mickey in the Post-War Era|url=http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/mickeymousepostwar/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615165949/http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/exhibits/articles/mickeymousepostwar/index.html|archive-date=June 15, 2008|publisher=Disney.com guest services}}</ref> Despite this, the character continued to appear regularly in animated shorts until 1943 (winning his only competitive Academy Award—with canine companion Pluto—for the short subject ''Lend a Paw'') and again from 1946 to 1952. In these later cartoons, Mickey was often just a supporting character in his own shorts. Pluto was instead used as the main character.

The last regular installment of the ''Mickey Mouse'' film series came in 1953 with ''[[The Simple Things]]'' in which Mickey and Pluto go fishing and are pestered by a flock of [[seagulls]].