History WesternAnimation / NewmanLaughOGrams

** ''Little Red Riding Hood'' for example, is known to have been worked on mainly by Walt and Hugh Harman. However, Hugh has said that Ub Iwerks worked on lettering & a few others such as Rudolf Ising & Carman Maxwell worked on the short while Walt has said Hugh and his brother, Fred, were the only ones working on it but does admit that Ub could have worked on the lettering. This isn't helped as Walt was known to show his work in progress to his co-workers from his job at Kansas City Film Ad Company.

* StopMotion: Newman Laugh-o-Grams is Stop Motion, as the hand that is shown in the film is not Walt's real hand but a picture of his hand. The drawing that starts to appear is him doing one frame at a time filling in the ink and moving his hand during each frame. This is also the case with ''Little Red Riding Hood'', while it is animation, the technique used to create the animation is stop motion.

* StopMotion: Newman's Laugh-o-Grams is Stop Motion, as the hand that is shown in the film is not Walt's real hand but a picture of his hand. The drawing that starts to appear is him doing one frame at a time filling in the ink and moving his hand during each frame.

* MickeyMousing: Walt made Martha, billed Song-o-Reel, a live action film, that incorporated on stage sound effects and music in a very early attempt of what he would later perfect with WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie a decade later. However, the film has been lost.

* Martha (1923): Lost Film, billed as 'Song-O-Gram', only title card and behind the scenes photos of the live action parts are known to exist.

The very first animated shorts produced by Creator/WaltDisney, the Laugh-O Grams were a short lived series of theatrical cartoons, with the studio and series lasting from [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation 1921 to 1923]], built off the heels of Disney's previously failed companies, Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists and Kaycee Studios.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51CRL1EtMN4 Newman Laugh-O-Grams]] (1921) Originally known as "Local Happenings"

* SettingUpdate: The Cinderella short has its setting updated to the 1920s.

The very first animated shorts produced by Creator/WaltDisney, the Newman Laugh-O Grams (often shortened to just Laugh-O-Grams) were a short lived series of theatrical cartoons, with the studio and series lasting from [[UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation 1921 to 1923]], built off the heels of Disney's previously failed company, Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=51CRL1EtMN4 Newman Laugh-O-Grams]] (1921)

* PublicDomainAnimation: With the exception of the Lafflets and Martha, the rest cartoons are in the PublicDomain.

After completing a couple of films, he sent his studio's sales manager to New York to find a distributor, as the local theaters were not bringing in enough income. Walt was able to sign with Pictorial Clubs, Inc. of Tennessee. Pictorial agreed to pay $11,000 for the cartoons, which were supposed to be shown at schools and other non-theatrical places, but only paid $100 in advance and was to deliver all of the shorts by 1924 to be paid the rest. While the rest of the shorts were being made, almost no income coming in and the company was failing.

Made matters worst, Pictorial Clubs went bankrupt only a few months after signing up for distribution and never delivered the rest of the payment, causing Walt to declare bankruptcy in July 1923, just after completing the raw edits of his pilot for his next proposed series, the WesternAnimation/AliceComedies. After selling his movie camera and moving to California, Walt managed to get distribution for the new Alice series via Winkler Pictures.

After completing a couple of films, he sent his studio's sales manager to New York to find a distributor. Walt was able to sign with Pictorial Clubs, Inc. of Tennessee. Pictorial agreed to pay $11,000 for the cartoons, which were supposed to be shown at schools and other non-theatrical places, but only paid $100 in advance and was to deliver all of the shorts by 1924 to be paid the rest. While the rest of the shorts were being made, almost no income coming in and the company was failing.

* AnimatedAnthology: The first short, Newman Laugh-O-Grams, is really a pilot for the local Newman Movie Theater Chain. Walt Disney was doing experiments in his father's garage with animation and created the short by putting together the animation that he created during the experimental. However, this is even questionable if "Newman Laugh-O-Grams" is even an anthology as that is all that is left of the shorts he created for the Newman Movie Theater by himself.

While popular in Kansas, it wasn't making enough money locally and Walt wanted to expand the series nationally. He sent his studio's sales manager to New York. Walt was able to sign with Pictorial Clubs, Inc. of Tennessee. Pictorial agreed to pay $11,000 for the cartoons, which were supposed to be shown at schools and other non-theatrical places, but only paid $100 in advance and was to deliver all of the shorts by 1924. However, Pictorial Clubs went bankrupt only a few months later and never delivered the rest of the payment causing Walt to declare bankruptcy in July 1923, just after completing the raw edits of his pilot for his next proposed series, the WesternAnimation/AliceComedies. After selling his movie camera and moving to California, Walt managed to get distribution for the new Alice series via Winkler Pictures.

While popular in Kansas, it wasn't making enough money locally and Walt wanted to expand the series nationally. He sent his studio's sales manager to New York. Walt was able to sign with Pictorial Clubs, Inc. of Tennessee. Pictorial agreed to pay $11,000 for the cartoons, which were supposed to be shown at schools and other non-theatrical places, but only paid $100 in advance and was to deliver all of the shorts by 1924. However, Pictorial Clubs went bankrupt only a few months later and never delivered the rest of the payment causing Walt was forced to declare bankruptcy in July 1923, just after completing the raw edits of his pilot for his next proposed series, the WesternAnimation/AliceComedies. After selling his movie camera and moving to California, Walt managed to get distribution for the new Alice series via Winkler Pictures.

Unfortunately, the series didn't attract an audience, and Walt was forced to declare bankruptcy in July 1923, just after completing the raw edits of his pilot for his next proposed series, the WesternAnimation/AliceComedies. After selling his movie camera and moving to California, Walt managed to get distribution for the new Alice series via Winkler Pictures.

The first handful were a series of 1 minute long newsreels that were exclusively screened at the Newman Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, featuring topical gags and advertisements, before upgrading to a series of gag cartoons loosely inspired by well known fairy tales, but given a then contemporary spin. Walt Disney himself drew and animated on these films, along with artists Creator/UbIwerks, [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman]], Creator/FrizFreleng and Carman Maxwell.

After Disney completed these short animated films, he created a new set of small shorts (about 20-30 seconds long) between Cinderella and Tommy Tucker's Tooth called ''Lafflets''. However, these have all been lost due to unpopularity of the shorts.

* AnimatedAnthology: The first short, Newman Laugh-O-Grams, is really a pilot for the local Newman Movie Theater Chain. Walt Disney was doing experiments in his Uncle's garage with animation and created the short by putting together the animation that he created during the experimental.

* PublicDomainAnimation: All cartoons are in the PublicDomain.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYrpghUcOpU Tommy Tucker's Tooth]] (1922)
* Martha (1923): Lost Film

After Disney completed these short animated films, he created a new set of small shorts (about 20-30 seconds long) between Cinderella and Tommy Tucker's Tooth called 'Lafflets'. However, these have all been lost due to unpopularity of the shorts.

Fortunately, all but 1 of the short films produced by the short lived studio (which includes "Alice's Wonderland", the pilot for Disney's eventual WesternAnimation/AliceComedies series) have survived the ravages of time and exist to this day.

* MissingEpisode: Martha, Disney's 2nd to last film, has been lost. It was billed as "Song-O-Gram" and only an image of the title card is known to exist.

* Martha (1923): Only Lost Film

* PublicDomainAnimation: All found cartoons are in the PublicDomain.

* PublicDomainAnimation: All 10 of the cartoons are in the PublicDomain.