![]() The results is a music festival which proves genuinely amusing. Mickey and his relatives crash their way into the cat's home while the latter is hunting. The Film Daily (July 28, 1929): "Amusing. They play everything from the piano, right down the line of musical instruments." ![]() The cat a-hunting goes and the mice play while the cat's away. It is synchronized for sound, which brings the greater part of the laughs. Motion Picture News (June 8, 1929): "This is one of the series of the Mickey Mouse cartoons. In an early script, the cartoon ended with the pet parrot calling the police, causing the mice to scurry away. The cat signs his name "Tom Cat", which was briefly used as a name for the character who was shortly afterwards identified as Peg-Leg Pete. ![]() This is the last time Mickey is portrayed as the size of a mouse, although he remains fairly small in his next cartoon, The Barnyard Battle. The cartoon is a loose remake of Disney's 1925 film Alice Rattled by Rats, from the Alice Comedies series. In the end, Mickey and Minnie successfully kiss each other. Once inside, Mickey and Minnie play the piano by dancing on the keys and later, others play some of the cat's musical instruments and records (using themselves as the speaker and stylus). ![]() Plot Īfter Tom Cat leaves his house, drunk on hooch, Mickey organizes all his mice friends to break into the cat's house. In this cartoon, Mickey and Minnie are the size of regular mice, and Tom Cat is the size of a person. It was the sixth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the third of that year. It was directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks and Ben Sharpsteen. Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films, Vol.When the Cat's Away is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on May 3, 1929, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series.Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White.Robin Hood (Gold Classic Collection) (colorized).Mickey Mouse: The Black and White Years - Volume One.The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.39: "Minnie Mouse".Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald, episode #2.The Mouse Factory, episode #2.4: "Knighthood".The Mickey Mouse Club, November 3, 1955.a hor-se's ass" plays, indicating that the Prince is not too bright. Upon the Prince's (Dippy Dawg, later renamed Goofy) entrance, the five-note musical phrase "You're.This short is featured as a transition level in Epic Mickey.The plot of this short was recycled from the Oswald short Oh What a Knight.Prince of Poopoopadoo (voiced by Pinto Colvig).The King of Kalapazoo (voiced by Allan Watson).Wandering Minstrel (voiced by Walt Disney).She pulls up a fan and there share a kiss behind it. The princess kisses her father for giving true love a chance and then joins the minstrel's side as he and his mule are paraded by several others. The mule then joins his master in chasing the prince until the young monarch leaps out a window, thus making the minstrel the winner of the duel. The mule and the horse duke it out too, and mule overcomes the horse's superior size by bucking his face and then chomping its rear end, causing the horse to run into a wall and knock itself out. The prince attempts to lance at his opponent, but the minstrel uses a guillotine to chop his weapon and use the sharp end to chase the prince as the crowd cheers on. They then charge at each other, but their steeds end up headbutting into eachother, causing the riders to fly off. The prince dresses up in actual battle armor and rides a horse while the minstrel uses a bucket and a furnace as makeshift armor and rides his mule. Seeing how the princess loves him, as well as an opportunity for some entertainment, the king allows the minstrel a chance to fight for his life and the princess' hand in a duel with the Poopoopadoo's prince, exciting everyone present. He is then sentenced to the guillotine, but the princess pleads for her father to spare him. Having witnessed all this from a window, the minstrel climbs a nearby tree and sings his intention to save the princess from her fate, making her fall in love with him.Īs the king and his friends enjoy the wedding feast, the minstrel uses the handmaiden's clothes as rope to climb down the tower with the princess, but is caught by the king and captured. Angered by this, the king orders her to be imprisoned in a tower alongside her handmaiden ( Clarabelle Cow) until she changes her mind, making her very depressed. Upon meeting the prince, however, the princess rejects him. Meanwhile, the king of Kalapazoo announces to his court his intention to marry his daughter, the princess ( Minnie Mouse) to the visiting prince of Poopoopadoo ( Dippy Dawg). The film takes place in the fictional kingdom of Kalapazoo, where lives a wandering minstrel, portrayed by Mickey himself, playing his lute while riding atop his pet mule across the land. The short features Mickey and his friends putting on a musical set in Medieval times.
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