"Mickey's Orphans" from 1931 is the second Disney Cartoon, and the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon, to have a Christmas theme. The first Disney Cartoon to have a Christmas theme is the 1927 Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Cartoon "Empty Socks".
"Mickey's Orphans" from 1931 is a remake with a similar story line, of the 1927 Oswald The Lucky Rabbit Cartoon "Empty Socks".
"Mickey's Orphans" from 1931 was nominated for the "Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film" at the "5th Academy Awards" in 1932, which also was the awards inaugural year. It lost to Disney's Silly Symphony Cartoon "Flowers and Trees" from 1932, it also was the first film to have the "three-strip" Technicolor process.