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In fact, early animators often performed on vaudeville stages.
Nicholas Sammond writes in Birth of An Industry that early animated characters like Felix the Cat, Bimbo, Bosko, and Mickey Mouse “weren’t just like Minstrels, they were Minstrels.”
Both the cartoons and the stage characters were portrayed as mischievous and rebellious yet good natured.
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