What if DreamWorks Pictures/DreamWorks Animation was founded in 1934?/A Thousand Attempts and One Invention

A Thousand Attempts and One Invention is a 1972 American animated comedy-drama film produced by DreamWorks Pictures. It was written and directed by Manuel García Ferré.

Plot
Anteojito is a poor orphan 10-years-old boy who lives with his Uncle Antifaz in an apartment house in New York. Uncle Antifaz tries to invent an invisibility formula with Anteojito’s help, and Witch Cachavacha, a witch and Uncle Antifaz's neighbor who lives in the apartment right under his, tries to steal it in reaction to his explotions angrering her. Anteojito sells some balloons and meets his friend L'll Mail, a little red mailbox. The balloons he was selling escape when he argues with a group of brats who mocked him. The circus comes to town and he helps out a friendly clown and his sick daughter by posing as a second, singing, clown. Two con men named Bodega and Rapiño are impressed by Anteojito’s singing and pose as talent agents who can get him lucrative theatrical and operatic engagements, being hired by Cachavacha to have him away from Uncle Antifaz. Bonaño, a good-natured cat (tall with funny hat), takes him to Master Meethoven, a Beethoven-esque feline music teacher. Anteojito becomes a star, but he unknownly lets success go to his head, as he snubs Uncle Antifaz, and dismisses Bodega and Rapiño, who begin fight over the money. The distraught Antifaz gives up his experiments, which are immediately continued disastrously by Cachavacha, who utimatilly dies on an explosion. Anteojito is told a story within the film (based on a separate book by García Ferré, El Pararrayos o Historia de una Ambición) and at last realizes that wealth is worthless without true friendship. He returns to being a little boy living with Uncle Antifaz, who throws away the invisibility formula he has finally invented.