Editing Silly Symphony (section)

===Columbia Pictures===
After viewing "The Skeleton Dance", the manager at Columbia Pictures quickly became interested in distributing the series, and gained the perfect opportunity to acquire Silly Symphonies after Disney broke with Celebrity Productions head Pat Powers after Powers signed Disney's colleague [[Ub Iwerks]] to a studio contract. [[Columbia Pictures]] (1930–1932) agreed to pick up the direct distribution of the [[Mickey Mouse]] series on the condition that they would have exclusive rights to distribute the ''Silly Symphonies'' series; at first, ''Silly Symphonies'' could not even come close to the popularity Mickey Mouse had. The original title cards to the shorts released by Celebrity Productions and Columbia Pictures were all redrawn after Walt Disney stopped distributing his cartoons through them. Meanwhile, more competition spread for Disney after [[Max Fleischer]]'s flapper cartoon character [[Betty Boop]] began to gain more and more popularity after starring in the cartoon ''[[Minnie the Moocher (film)|Minnie the Moocher]]''. By August 1932, Betty Boop became so popular that the [[Talkartoon]] series was renamed as Betty Boop cartoons.