Mickey's Choo-Choo

Mickey's Choo-Choo (1929)

Mickey is a railroad engineer with an anthropomorphic locomotive. He feeds the train (coal), then feeds his dog, then makes lunch for himself. Minnie drops by and plays a tune on her fiddle while Mickey dances. After lunch, the train has trouble climbing a hill, and the last car with Minnie aboard detaches and runs away.

Date of release
1929-09-30
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (35)
Runtime
7m
Genres
Animation
Director
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks

Interesting facts

Mickey's Choo-Choo is a 1929 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney. It is the eleventh film of the Mickey Mouse film series. Ub Iwerks was the animator. It was the eleventh Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the eighth of that year, and was one of the series of early Disney cartoons that led Mickey Mouse to become a national fad by the end of 1929. Columbia Pictures reissued the film after Walt Disney Productions switched distributors. Originally produced in black and white, this cartoon was one of 45 Mickey Mouse cartoons colorized by American Film Technologies in 1991.

Production

Some of the gags in the cartoon are recycled from the 1927 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short Trolley Troubles. This is the first cartoon in which Mickey says more than a couple of words, "this time in a voice that sounds like Walt's".

The soundtrack includes Mickey singing "I've Been Working on the Railroad" and playing part of Antonín Dvořák's Humoresques on his spaghetti. Minnie's ride on the train is set to the tune of "Dixie".

The closing image of Mickey and Minnie operating a handcar inspired a famous toy version, manufactured by the Lionel Corporation. The toy was extremely profitable for the company, who credited the toy to have saved them from financial disaster.

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