Mickey's Service Station (1935)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Release Date:

16 March 1935 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Animation | Short

Plot:

Mickey, Goofy & Donald have 10 minutes to fix Pete's car. Or else!

Plot Keywords:

Pegleg Pete | Gas Station | Surrealism | Duck | Mouse

Cast

Billy Bletcher	...	Pete (voice) (uncredited)
Pinto Colvig	...	Goofy (voice) (uncredited)
Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Clarence Nash	...	Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)

Also Known As:

Super Service (USA) (8mm release title)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone System)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | USA:Approved

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Trivia:

The last Walt Disney animated short in black and white.

Goofs:

Continuity: Throughout most of the cartoon, Pete's left leg is pegged, but it changes to his right shortly before the end.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Mouse Factory: Automobiles (#2.17)" (1973)

Service With A Smile

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

Bullying gangster Pegleg Pete leaves his roadster at MICKEY'S SERVICE STATION for Mickey, Goofy & Donald to find the source of a squeak...or else!

Here is one of Mickey's final black & white cartoons and it is excellent. Watching the three hapless friends bring their chaotic cacophony to a climaxing crescendo - including a satisfying comeuppance for Pete - is tremendously funny.

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 blizzard of doomsayers, 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.