Disney Origins (1935-1940) - Short Movies 1
Mickey, Donald, Pluto, Minnie, Goofy
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- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsWalt DisneyMarcellite GarnerBeatrice HagenMickey and Donald take a truckload of mouse boys on a picnic. The boys delight in tormenting Donald, first by filching the picnic food, then giving him a flower with a bee inside (Donald eventually gets the whole hive after him), and finally a sandwich with another bee in it.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsPinto ColvigCount CutelliWalt DisneyMickey is preparing to conduct an opera when he chases Pluto away. Pluto crashes into a magician's props backstage and spars with the hat, its rabbits, and its doves. The opera begins: Clarabelle plays flute, Clara and Donald are the leads in a Romeo and Juliet style opera, "Bella Figlia Dell'Amore" from Verdi's Rigoletto. Pluto follows the magic hat onstage, to Mickey's growing annoyance. The hat falls into a tuba, and soon the animals are filling the stage.
- DirectorDavid HandWilfred JacksonStarsWalt DisneyClarence NashNed NortonMickey Mouse and his friends face off against a team of celebrities in a polo match.
- DirectorDavid HandStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMelvin J. GibbyUp in the Swiss Alps, Mickey Mouse tangles with a mother eagle, Donald Duck scraps with an edelweiss-stealing goat and Pluto gets inebriated with a St. Bernard.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigLee MillarClarence NashPlumber Donald is using a large magnet in his work. When he drops it, it causes trouble for Pluto, especially after Pluto swallows it. Things begin clinging to him, especially his metal dog dish.
- DirectorDavid HandStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyClarence NashDonald continually heckles Mickey's magic act, but Mickey bests him at every turn. Donald shoots off a magic pistol that causes all the stage props to fall down on them at the finish of the act.
- DirectorPinto ColvigErdman PennerWalt PfeifferStarsElvia AllmanPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMickey hosts an amateur hour radio show. Among the acts: Donald forgetting the words to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"; Clara Cluck singing and chasing the microphone; and Goofy with an elaborate one-man-band contraption.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsStuart BuchananPinto ColvigWalt DisneyGoofy (front) and Donald (rear) are dressed in a female moose suit, trying to lure a moose for hunter Mickey. When they do find one, it turns out to be more than they can handle.
- DirectorJack KingStarsAdriana CaselottiBilly BletcherCliff EdwardsDonald Duck visits a museum of modern inventions; among the inventions he struggles with: a robot butler who keeps taking his hat; a package wrapping machine; a robot nursemaid; an automated barber chair.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMarcellite GarnerMickey, Donald, Goofy, and Pluto experience all that Hawaii has to offer. Donald tries hula dancing, Pluto explores the beach and Goofy takes up surfing.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyJames MacDonaldMickey, Donald, and Goofy are cleaning a large clock. Among the complications: Mickey fights a sleeping stork that doesn't want to leave, Donald gets tangled up in the main-spring, and Goofy is inside the bell when the clock strikes four.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigLee MillarPluto wants to chase the sausage man, but Fifi convinces him to look after their five rambunctious puppies instead. The puppies end up in the basement, where they tangle with a compressed air tank, paint, a jug of hooch, and other hazards. Fifi returns and finds a drunk Pluto, paint on everyone, and gets very angry.
- DirectorJack KingStarsAdriana CaselottiPinto ColvigBeatrice HagenDonald is the baggagemaster at a remote railway station. Part of the latest cargo shipment is Hortense the Ostrich, who is a bit too friendly with Donald, and who eats everything in sight, whether it's food or not (mostly not): a concertina, an alarm clock, some balloons, all of which start reacting when Hortense gets the hiccups.
- DirectorBurt GillettStarsBilly BletcherPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMickey, Donald and Goofy run the "Ajax Ghost Exterminators" agency. They receive a call from lonely and bored ghosts to come to their house where they are scared silly by the hilarious haunts and taunts of these spirited pranksters.
- DirectorJack KingStarsAl BernieOtis HarlanFlorence GillDonald hears a radio philosopher advise to laugh and count ten when he gets angry. He tries it successfully, then settles into his hammock for a nap. Between a caterpillar and the hen chasing it, he's soon tangled up and counting ten again. He also shrugs off a bird using his lemonade as a birdbath, but when a woodpecker attacks his apple tree, burying Donald in apples, he snaps.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyMarcellite GarnerMickey, Donald, and Goofy build a boat, but find it's harder than they had anticipated.
- DirectorJack KingStarsThelma BoardmanDon BrodieClarence NashSchoolboy Donald is torn between his angel and devil sides, though in Donald's case, the devil side isn't hard to resist. But the smoking he's encouraged to do turns him green and gives him regrets, and when the good side shows up and kicks evil's butt, Donald cheers.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyRichard EdwardsMickey and Donald ride in a trailer pulled by Goofy, who doesn't realize his car has separated from the trailer as they travel down a mountain.
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigRichard EdwardsClarence NashDonald and Goofy are trappers in the frozen south (Antarctica) with different approaches. Donald sees a penguin and dresses as one to lure her to the chopping block; Goofy baits a trap with fish (then acts like a walrus to capture one that steals his bait bucket).
- DirectorBen SharpsteenStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyRichard EdwardsDonald controls the hounds (or maybe they control him), and Goofy is riding on his shy horse, as the fox outwits both of them. Some other Disney characters are seen briefly in the hunting party at the end.
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashDonald is golfing, and his nephews are along to "help." Between their noise and their practical jokes, Donald isn't having a lot of fun or success with his game.
- DirectorJack KingStarsAurora McCallDavid KermanDorothy LloydDonald Duck, delivery boy, is hired to deliver a mysterious package on Friday the Thirteenth. He is hindered by a bothersome black cat -- and by the fact that the package contains a live bomb.
- DirectorDick HuemerStarsJack BaileyOlcott VailGoofy is going fishing with his best friend, Wilbur, a grasshopper.
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashDonald shows his nephews the moves that won him his hockey trophy. But the boys have a few moves of their own.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiBurt GillettStarsLee MillarClarence NashDonald Duck is at the beach and tries to ride a rubber horse. He notices Pluto sleeping at the shore and decides to have some fun with him by sending the rubber horse over to Pluto which completely mesmerizes him. Meanwhile, a tribe of ants abduct Donald's picnic lunch. Donald lays out fly paper to stop the ants. Pluto follows one of the ants and, of course, he and later Donald become enmeshed in the fly paper.