The Barnyard Broadcast (1931)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Burt Gillett

Release Date:

19 October 1931 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Short | Music

Plot:

Mickey runs radio station ICU from his barn. His friends play various musical numbers. A cat wanders in and starts yowling (which sets Pluto...

Plot Keywords:

Cat | Kitten | Radio | Mickey Mouse | Clarabelle Cow

Cast

Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Marcellite Garner	...	Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: Numbering of cel visible on the bottom of screen when Horace plays music on a saw.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Mouse Factory: Mickey Mouse (#2.10)" (1972)

Mickey On The Radio

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

THE BARNYARD BROADCAST from Mickey's Station ICU is disrupted by the persistent depredations of a stray cat & her incorrigible kittens.

This enjoyable black & white film shows a little more about the euterpian versatility of Mickey's friends: Clarabelle Cow tickles the ivories, while Horace Horsecollar is proficient on both the violin and the musical saw & Minnie delights with the saxophone and harp. The scene showing the kittens attempting to nurse off of the electrical equipment dials is a bit of an eye-opener. Walt Disney supplies Mickey's squeaky voice.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Peter Pan and Mr. Toad. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.