Mickey's Nightmare (1932)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Burt Gillett

Release Date:

13 August 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Animation | Short

Plot:

Mickey dreams of marrying Minnie and having about 20 children. For all the possible joys of children...

Plot Keywords:

Dream | Dog | Mickey Mouse | Mirror | Marriage As Hell

Cast

Pinto Colvig	...	Pluto (voice)
Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)
Marcellite Garner	...	Minnie Mouse (voice)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Cinephone

Certification:

USA:Approved

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Quotes:

Mickey Mouse: God bless Minnie, God bless Pluto, God bless everyone! Amen!

Movie Connections:

Remake of Poor Papa (1928)

Mickey's Fatherhood Fright

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

MICKEY'S NIGHTMARE shows him what married life would be like with his home overrun by countless ill-behaved Mice offspring.

Frenetic action/reaction animation tells the story here. Opening is charming, with Mickey & Pluto saying their bedtime prayers. Music mavens will recognize "My Blue Heaven" as the tune being played as the squadron of storks arrive with their bulging bundles. The animators include a brassiere gag which is both unnecessary and crude. Walt supplies Mickey's voice in this black & white cartoon.

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.