Playful Pluto
Playful Pluto (1934) is a Walt Disney cartoon, directed by Burt Gillett. It was the first cartoon to showcase Pluto as a major character. It was the 65th Mickey Mouse short film, and the third of that year.[2]
| Playful Pluto | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Burt Gillett |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Walt Disney Pinto Colvig |
| Music by | Frank Churchill Larry Morey Paul J. Smith |
| Animation by | Character animation: Norman Ferguson Dick Lundy Art Babbitt |
| Color process | Black and white Color (1991 computer color edition) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date | March 3, 1934[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
While Mickey Mouse is working in his garden Pluto keeps bothering and interrupting him. After a while Pluto swallows a flashlight and gets stuck on a piece of flypaper.
Voice cast
- Mickey Mouse: Walt Disney
- Pluto: Pinto Colvig
Legacy
The cartoon is well known for a classic scene where Pluto gets stuck on a sticky piece of flypaper. This scene, animated by Norm Ferguson, has been described as vital in the history of character animation, because for the first time an animated character really seemed to think and have a mind of his own. The segment is also classic because it demonstrated how Disney artists were able to take a simple circumstance and build humor through a character.
Clips from the cartoon, including the flypaper scene, were also used in the Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels (1941), in which the title character (Joel McCrea) has a revelation while viewing Playful Pluto alongside an audience of church-goers and chain-gang prisoners.
See also
References
- Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.