Mickey's Choo-Choo

Mickey's Choo-Choo is a 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon. Ub Iwerks was the animator.[1] Mickey's Choo-Choo was released at the same time as Springtime, the third Silly Symphony to appear.[2] It was one of the series of early Disney cartoons that led Mickey Mouse to become a national fad by the end of 1929.[3]Originally in black and white, this cartoon was of the ten Mickey Mouse cartoons colorized by the Walt Disney Company in 1991[4][5].

Plot

The cartoon opens with Mickey piloting a steam engine, and ringing his bell, and blowing the engine's whistle. As the engine and his coal tender back to collect a boxcar, the engine rests with Mickey, his railroad engineer, fuelling him, and feeding his engine with coal from the tender. As the engine eats too much coal and burps, Mickey decides to have some spaghetti, until Minnie comes along. After Mickey finishes his lunch, Minnie arrives with a violin that she can play, and hops onto the freight car. Minnie plays a musical song (Dvořák's Humoresque) while Mickey does the same. As Mickey looks at his watch, only to realize that they are late, he yells 'All aboard!' to the engine, which whistles in cheerful response after Mickey gets on board. The engine slowly starts out of the station and chuffs cheerfully through the beautiful countryside toward a hill and struggles up it. The engine ends having problems and starts to cry until the cartoon ends with Mickey pushing the boxcar too hard that it comes lose from the engine and runs into Clarabelle Cow and explodes until an image appears with Mickey and Minnie Mouse riding a handcar (made from the chassis and a plank of wood from the freight car which came uncoupled accidentally when Mickey tried to push the train up the hill when it got stuck earlier in the film) into the sunset, which inspired a famous toy version, manufactured by the Lionel Corporation. The toy company made so much money from this item and others like it that Mickey was known as "the mouse that saved Lionel."[6]

References

  1. ↑ Borowiec, Piotr (October 1998). Animated short films: a critical index to theatrical cartoons. Scarecrow Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-8108-3503-0. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  2. ↑ Barrier, Michael (25 September 2003). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-19-516729-0. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  3. ↑ Watts, Steven (27 June 2002). The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. University of Missouri Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-8262-1379-2. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XNfawYyHXI
  5. ↑ PAu001629050 / 1991-10-31
  6. ↑ Souter, Gerry; Souter, Janet (14 December 2002). Classic Toy Trains. MBI Publishing Company. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0-7603-1367-1. Retrieved 17 September 2011.

Further reading

  • Telotte, J.P. (2010). "Disney's cows, the mouse, and the modernist moment". Screen. 51 (3): 219–231. doi:10.1093/screen/hjq016. Retrieved 17 September 2011.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.