Mickey Mouse — His 8th Birthday Celebration (1936), special silkscreen, US

Mickey Mouse — His 8th Birthday Celebration (1936), special silkscreen, US

Unframed: 60 x 40 in. (152 x 102 cm)

Framed: 62 x 43 in. (157.5 x 109.2 cm)

Special hand printed silkscreen posters were produced for Walt Disney throughout the mid 1930s. These were used to promote Disney's cartoons and characters and were done in conjunction with the theatres running a series of cartoons. Special silkscreen posters were normally smaller in size (40 x 30 in.) and are themselves extremely rare. This poster for Mickey's 8th birthday in 1936 is the only one to have surfaced in this larger format.

To-date no other example of this poster has surfaced.