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Symphony Hour

  • 19421942
  • 7m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
670
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Symphony Hour (1942)
AnimationShortComedy
Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The spon... Read allMickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway.Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway.
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
670
YOUR RATING
    • Riley Thomson(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Billy Bletcher(voice)
    • Pinto Colvig(voice)
    • Walt Disney(voice)
    • Riley Thomson(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Billy Bletcher(voice)
    • Pinto Colvig(voice)
    • Walt Disney(voice)
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    Billy Bletcher
    Billy Bletcher
    • Sylvester Macaroni
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Pinto Colvig
    Pinto Colvig
    • Goofy
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Walt Disney
    Walt Disney
    • Mickey Mouse
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Florence Gill
    • Clara Cluck
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    John McLeish
    • Radio Announcer
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Clarence Nash
    Clarence Nash
    • Donald Duck
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
      • Riley Thomson(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Several characters appear in both this short and the earlier short 'The Band Concert.' Interestingly, none of them play the same instruments in both cartoons (Mickey led the band in both films, however).
    • Quotes

      Pete, as Sylvester Macaroni: [Sobs] I'm-a sick! I'm-a bust!

      [Sobs louder]

      Pete, as Sylvester Macaroni: I'm a ruined man!

    • Alternate versions
      When shown on The Disney Channel or Toon Disney during hours when children might be watching, a scene in which Mickey Mouse plants the barrel of a large revolver between Donald Duck's eyes to stop him from leaving is deleted.
    • Connections
      Edited into The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show (1968)

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    10/10
    Mangled Melody
    A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

    Mickey and his pals are all set to make their orchestral debut on the Macaroni SYMPHONY HOUR - not knowing that Goofy has virtually destroyed their instruments.

    Many younger viewers may not realize that this very funny little film is set during the broadcast of an old-time live radio show. John McLeish is the program's announcer; Mickey's musicians consist of Donald Duck, Goofy, Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar and the marvelous Madame Clara Cluck, who inexplicably is given only a few seconds of screen time and was about to disappear from Disney cartoons altogether for forty-one years. Pete is hilarious as Sylvester Macaroni, the program's sponsor.

    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.
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      • March 20, 1942 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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