Walt Disney FIGARO Cartoon. The battle rages in Minnie's living room between the kitten FIGARO AND FRANKIE the canary bird, but the sudden arrival of Butch the bulldog is going to completely upset the balance of power. Here is another in the short series of cartoons to feature the feline from PINOCCHIO (1940). Fast & funny, it was the only Disney film to include an appearance by little Frankie. Minnie Mouse has a small, rather thankless, part - but she does get to wield a mean broom. Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke...