The Spirit of Mickey

The Spirit of Mickey
The VHS cover for The Spirit of Mickey
Produced by Harry Arends
Phil Savenick
Darryl Harris
Written by Bonnie Peterson
Starring Wayne Allwine
Tony Anselmo
Corey Burton
Jeannie Elias
Bill Farmer
Diane Michelle
Russi Taylor
Music by Andrew Belling
Edited by Darryl Harris
Robert P. Schneider
Distributed by Walt Disney Home Video
Release date
 July 14, 1998
Running time
 83 mins
Country  United States
Language English

The Spirit of Mickey is a 1998 American animated direct-to-video anthology film, produced and released by Walt Disney Home Video on July 14, 1998. It features clips from The Mickey Mouse Club, The Wonderful World of Disney , and A Goofy Movie, in the introductory scene, and some of the namesake character's shorts, including The Band Concert, Lend a Paw, Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip and Steamboat Willie.

The Framing devices are centered on Mickey Mouse and his friends presenting some of Mickey's greatest cartoons, using stock footage from The Mickey Mouse Club, Disney's Wonderful World of Color, A Goofy Movie, and various Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck shorts. None of the shorts were shown with their original title cards, instead, the titles were shown on the corner of the screen, disappearing after a few seconds, with an exception for the final short, Steamboat Willie.

Overview

Cartoons

# Title Release Date Director
1 The Band Concert February 23, 1935 Walt Disney/Wilfred Jackson
2 Thru the Mirror May 30, 1936 David Hand
3 Lend a Paw October 3, 1941 Clyde Geronimi
4 Orphan's Picnic February 15, 1936 Ben Sharpsteen
5 The Worm Turns January 2, 1937 Ben Sharpsteen
6 Mickey's Surprise Party February 18, 1939/July 14, 1998; redubbed version Hamilton Luske
7 Mickey and the Seal December 3, 1948 Charles August Nichols
8 Mickey's Trailer May 6, 1938 Ben Sharpsteen
9 Canine Caddy May 30, 1941 Clyde Geronimi
10 Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip November 1, 1940 Clyde Geronimi
11 Steamboat Willie November 18, 1928 Walt Disney/Ub Iwerks

Voice cast

See also

Notes

  • This is the only Walt Disney/Mickey Mouse video in North America to include eleven cartoons.
    • This is also the fifth and final Non-Walt Disney Cartoon Classics video to be released in America around the 1990s (the others four videos are Love Tales, Mickey Loves Minnie, Sweetheart Stories, and The Best of Roger Rabbit).
  • Mickey's Surprise Party was edited for this release, due to the short being originally sponsored by Nabisco. All the Nabisco packaging were replaced by generic products, and all of Mickey and Minnie's lines referencing the products at the end were redubbed by Mickey and Minnie's current voice actors, Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor.
  • Later, in 2013 (fifteen years from right after when was the video was released), Get a Horse! was made, with using three of the shorts' audios, Mickey and the Seal, Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip, and The Worm Turns.
  • The part in the Steamboat Willie short where Mickey uses the Mama Pig as an instrument was edited out from the video when it was released.
  • The opening music for the Steamboat Willie short was tweaked a little bit, the music started by a few minutes earlier than before.
  • Clips from Mickey's Birthday Party and The Pointer are used at the beginning of the video.
  • The "Hey Mickey" song was also used on the 1996 direct-to-video release, Mickey's Greatest Hits, which also serves as the international equivalent of The Spirit of Mickey. Sound effects are also used for the song in Mickey's Greatest Hits, but are muted out in The Spirit of Mickey.
  • It's unknown if the video will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the future.
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