start their own commercial art business together. Disney and Iwerks then found work as illustrators for the Kansas City Slide Newspaper Company (which would later be named The Kansas City Film Ad Company). While working for the Kansas City Film Ad Company, Disney decided to take up work in animation, and Iwerks soon joined him. He was responsible for the distinctive style of the earliest Disney an…

from Betty Boop fame. Along with many of the other Color Classics, Christmas Comes But Once a Year is today in the public domain. The film was animated by Fleischer Studios and released on December 4, 1936. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures. This film is public domain. Fleischer Studios, Inc. was an American corporation which originated as an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New Y…