| Horace Horsecollar | |
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Real Name |
Horace Horsecollar |
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First Appearance |
The Plowboy (1929) |
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Original Publisher |
Disney |
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Created by |
Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks |
Origin[]
Horace Horsecollar is a cartoon character created in 1929 at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Horace is a tall anthropomorphic black horse and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends. Characterized as a boastful show-off, Horace served as Mickey’s sidekick in Disney's early black-and-white shorts.
In his earliest incarnation, Horace was presented as Mickey's four-legged plow horse. He could walk upright on his hind legs, at which time his forelegs became gloved hands; at other times, he got back down on all fours and reverted to form.
Public Domain Animated Appearances[]
- The Plowboy (1929)
- The Jazz Fool (1929)
- All Together (1942)
Public Domain Comics Appearances[]
- Mickey Mouse in Death Valley (1930)
- Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers (1930)
Notes[]
- A protoype of Horace appeared in the Oswald cartoon The Fox Chase (1928) named Billy.
- After being removed from Universal Pictures' Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon series, Walt Disney worked with Ub Iwerks and a few other loyalists to develop a new character for the studio. One of the concepts that Iwerks had conceived was a horse character, though this was put to the wayside in favor of a mouse named Mickey.
- The comic strip story-lines Lost on a Desert Island (January 20th, 1930 - March 31st, 1930) Mickey Mouse in Death Valley & Mr. Slicker and the Egg Robbers are in the public domain due to a lack of renewal for his debut and for strips beyond Jan 13-18 published in 1930. He was later made as the love interest for Clarabelle Cow in the comics and in the shorts.
- All Together was WWII propaganda film that fell in the public domain due to being a wartime film made for the National Film Board of Canada.