Mickey Mouse walks from his house and spots Horace Horsecollar pulling a hay wagon with all his friends playing music.

Angry at being pranked, Pete kidnaps Minnie and rams his car into the wagon, sending Mickey and Horace flying toward the screen and causing them to burst from their two-dimensional, black-and-white world to the three-dimensional, modern movie theater in full color.

As Mickey tries to return to his world, Horace walks onto the stage carrying items, such as an iPhone and a box of Milk Duds.

Mickey uses Horace as a mock biplane to fly around the theater and fire at Pete with the Milk Duds like bullets.

Getting an idea, Minnie encourages Mickey to flip the screen again, which sets off a chain of further misfortunes until Pete is launched face-first into his car.

Seeing this as an opportunity, Mickey and Horace begin spinning the screen until Pete is completely dazed and knocked out.

[5][11] She started working on the short after Wreck-It Ralph director, Rich Moore, told her that Disney was looking for some Mickey Mouse ideas for television.

[1] To achieve the 1928 look, aging and blur filters were added to the image, while for the CGI part, they created new models, faithful to the character designs of 1928.

[13] Originally temporary, the production team incorporated archival recordings of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse voice from 1928 to 1947, and spliced it into the character's dialogue.

[16] It made its United States premiere on August 9, 2013, at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California,[17] and theatrically accompanied Walt Disney Animation Studios' Frozen, which was released on November 27, 2013.

He particularly points out that the film "begins as an early black-and-white Mickey Mouse cartoon but then bursts its boundaries into color and 3D in marvelously antic ways that call to mind the stepping-off-the-screen techniques of Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. and Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo.

He continues on that "Filmmaker Lauren MacMullan perfectly nails the look and feel of the early days of the Disney studio, and it is the first time I have ever laughed out loud at Mickey Mouse.