Mickey's Birthday Party

Mickey's Birthday Party (1942)

The gang gives Mickey a surprise birthday party.

The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. Goofy bakes the cake, but keeps having trouble with it falling. The gang does a conga line to a Latin tune.

Date of release
1942-02-07
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (68)
Runtime
8m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Riley Thomson

Casting

Interesting facts

Mickey's Birthday Party is an American animated short film directed by Riley Thomson, produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The 114th short to feature Mickey Mouse, it was released on February 7, 1942. The animated film was directed by Riley Thomson and animated by Les Clark, James Moore, Ken Muse, Armin Shaffair, Riley Thompson, Bernie Wolf, and Marvin Woodward. It was the 116th short in the Mickey Mouse film series to be released, and the first for that year.

Production

This short is an update of the 1931 black and white short The Birthday Party. The 1931 version only had Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar, since none of the other characters existed at the time.

It also has some marks of 1932's The Whoopee Party.

Some of the animation of Mickey's wild dance was actually originally done by Ward Kimball for The Reluctant Dragon, not only used in the film.

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