Produced by Larry Darmour, the series was notable for essentially launching the careers of Mickey Rooney and Billy Barty.
In 1925 Fox placed a newspaper ad for a dark-haired child to play the role of "Mickey McGuire" in a series of short films.
The litigation settlement awarded damages to the owners of the cartoon character, as well as compelled the twelve-year-old actor to refrain from calling himself by the name Mickey McGuire on and off screen.
In 1945, Darmour and former series director Jesse Duffy edited five of the shorts into a feature film compilation titled Mickey the Great.
The edited versions of the films used for Mickey the Great showed up on the market, as did various five-minute clips of the silent shorts for toy reel projectors.
The Mischief Makers series, created by National Telepix, was a children's program during the early 1960s, and mainly featured various Pathe Our Gang silents cut down to about half of their original length.
United American Video and Summit Media Co. released three volumes of the Columbia Mickey McGuire shorts.
In 2001, ten of the sound shorts made their way to home video on five VHS tapes through Virgil Films and Ent.