Mickey's Parrot (1938)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Bill Roberts

Release Date:

9 September 1938 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Animation | Short

Plot:

A parrot belonging to an escaped killer washes up in Mickey's basement. Mickey hears it talking and...

Plot Keywords:

Parrot | Killer | Basement | Radio | Pluto

Cast

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

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Mouse Factory: Pluto (#2.5)" (1972)

A Mouse Tale For The Birds

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

Bumped out of a moving van, a hot-tempered parrot takes refuge in Mickey's home.

MICKEY'S PARROT is an excellent little film, with very fine animation and some good gags. The plot follows Pluto more closely than Mickey, but that is not unusual. Despite a strong debut, the Parrot would make no further appearances in any Disney animated films. Mickey's voice is supplied by Walt Disney.

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.