The Moose Hunt (1931)

Release Date:

8 May 1931 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Animation | Short

Plot:

Mickey's hunting, along with a characteristically playful and distracted (and uncharacteristically talkative) Pluto...

Plot Keywords:

Hunting | Moose | Anthropomorphic Animal | Cartoon Dog | Breaking The Fourth Wall

Cast

Pinto Colvig	...	Pluto (voice)
Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)

Directed by
Burt Gillett		(uncredited)

Produced by
Walt Disney	....	producer

Original Music by
Bert Lewis		(uncredited)

Animation Department
David Hand	....	animator (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

First time Mickey Mouse's dog is called Pluto.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Biography: Betty Boop" (????)

Beware What You Seek

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

THE MOOSE HUNT upon which Mickey & Pluto have embarked just might get them more than they bargained for...

The Mouse & the Pup were still in the early days of their association in this jaunty, slightly bizarre little film. Pluto actually speaks a few human words and talks to his master - an experiment the folks at Disney were quick to discontinue. Walt Disney provides Mickey with his squeaky voice.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & 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 comic 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 storm of naysayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.