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The robot goes insane when he hears Minnie’s car horn and Mickey has to repair him for the fight.

Mickey is a fight trainer for a robot who is going to fight a gorilla. Javailable in Mickey Mouse in Black and White Volume 2 Interestingly, the version I watched did not have the infamous Jewish caricature of the travelling salesman. This short originated the “Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” diddy. I mean… what can you say about this? It’s a classic, practically perfect in every way. Mediocre gags and a pretty boring plot limit this short. He has to reckon with the mail pirate Peg Leg Pete, who attempts to shoot down Mickey and otherwise obstruct his mission. Mickey is a mail pilot (hence the title) delivering what appears to be a pile of money. I’m probably a bit biased because I love the story itself and this is a fun pop culture rendition of it a-la 1933.Īvailable in Mickey Mouse in Black and White Then it’s really exquisite animation around the falling rain and the animals racing to the ark (with a fun side-plot about how they didn’t want to bring skunks on board). The first third is gag after gag of animals helping cut wood and build the ark. Just the right amount of music vs drama, plenty of fun and good gags (including Mickey and Goofy’s loyal steeds having a slap-fight). Mickey and Goofy duel for Minnie’s hand, to the delight of everyone… INCLUDING MINNIE?!? WHAT? For her insults, her own father screams “She acts like a fanatic! Lock her in the attic!” which made me laugh way too hard. Mickey is a wandering minstrel who wanders into town in time for Minnie to reject the advances of a forward prince (played by Goofy). I want to like this, but I definitely feel like it’s a short with an enormous amount of cultural baggage that I’m not sure I can penetrate.Īpavailable in Mickey Mouse in Black and White And they go out of their way to make sure that the white slave-owner character is constantly pelted with rotten fruit. There is a lot of blackface in it, but it’s also, you know, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. I feel like I need a PhD in American media and literature to review this. This one starts with Mickey blowing a firecracker in his own face to create blackface for a character in a presentation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Maavailable in Mickey Mouse in Black and White Volume 2 Side note: What, exactly, is Mickey & Minnie’s relationship? Are they married? Living together? What’s going on here? Ultimately, Pluto sides with his better nature, saves the kittens, and is well rewarded. Pluto’s struggles with the moral dilemma of these kittens who are taking over his home. The effect is… just ok, but I’m incredibly impressed with how ambitious this was.įebruavailable in Mickey Mouse in Black and White Volume 2ĭuring a winter walk, Pluto saves a bunch of kittens, who adorably invade the Mouse house. I see this scene as sort of tech demo in which they want to see how hard it is to animate a 3D scene.

One fascinating thing to me is how it features a perspective 3D scene in which the camera follows Mickey down a hallway, around a bend and falling down a set of stairs. It cheats a little bit on the ending, but otherwise this is a solid one. There are several really fantastic gags with skeletons through this, including a skeleton spider. Januavailable in Mickey Mouse in Black and White Volume 2ĭuring a dark and stormy night, a mad doctor steals Pluto away to his SKULL SHAPED CASTLE OF DEATH. It’s sort of a template for the classic Disney short moving forward. This is an excellent cartoon, blending the music and gags with a solid dramatic narrative. Peg Leg Pete calling Mickey a (this is a quote) “blankity black baboon”, Mickey cutting his sandwich with a table saw, the workers jumping off the building with parachutes to take their lunch hour. Mickey is a steam shovel operator working on a building who becomes distracted when Minnie shows up with box lunches for the workers. Oh man, I remember this from my grandfather’s old VHS tapes. Januavailable in Mickey Mouse in Black and White Posted on Maby matthiasshapiro Building a Building