Mickey's Circus

Mickey's Circus (1936)

Mickey is ringmaster of a circus for orphans. Donald has a trained sea lion act, and does a bit of juggling himself. Mostly, though, he fights with a baby sea lion who keeps stealing both the fish and the show. Donald then finds himself and Mickey in an unrehearsed high wire act, which kicks into high gear when one of the orphans electrifies the wire. They end by doing a high dive into the seals' tank.

Date of release
1936-08-01
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (42)
Runtime
8m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Ben Sharpsteen

Casting

Interesting facts

Mickey's Circus is an animated short film directed by Ben Sharpsteen and produced by Walt Disney Productions and released August 1, 1936. It was the 87th Mickey Mouse short film to be released, the eighth of that year.

Production

In Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, Michael Barrier discusses Mickey's Circus in a passage about stenographers' transcripts of Walt Disney in story meetings:

The value of such transcripts is evident from one of the earliest surviving examples, from an October 1935 meeting on a cartoon called Mickey's Circus; Mickey Mouse was to be the ringmaster and Donald Duck, the impresario of a troupe of seals. Disney steered the writers toward a presentation of the seals that would permit the animators to introduce personality.

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