On this day, August 16th in 1930, the world's first colour and sound cartoon titled 'Fiddlesticks was released. Here are a few things that you may not know about the animated short...

This ground-breaking animated feature was the first directorial venture of Ub Iwerks, previously an animator at Walt Disney's studio. Iwerks is said to have co-created characters like Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse with Disney.