Along with other Mickey Mouse shorts produced the same year, Fiddlin Around will enter the public domain on January 1, 2026.

In 2009, David Gerstein uncovered an original 1930 release print which shows Fiddling Around, implying that Just Mickey was a working title.

In fact, however, the final title -- under which the film was copyrighted, distributed by Columbia, advertised, and exhibited -- is Fiddling Around.

"[3] On the Disney Film Project, Ryan Kirkpatrick agrees: "The thing that keeps your interest... are the expressions on Mickey's face.

"[6] The Film Daily (June 8, 1930): "Good Cartoon: As a violin virtuoso, Mickey Mouse has plenty of trouble with broken strings and a tough audience that includes one guy who keeps giving him the horse laugh.

Mickey trots into view for a violin solo and shakes, squirms, acrobats, weeps and otherwise accents his playing.

Audience unseen gives him a couple of Bronx cheers to help the situation and Mickey bows out on his back, but still playing the fiddle.