Mickey Mouse (film series)

Films from 1929 to 1935 which were re-released during this time also used this naming convention, but it was not used for the three shorts released between 1983 and 1995 (Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Prince and the Pauper, and Runaway Brain).

1995's Runaway Brain returned the series to its single reel format, while the latest installment, 2013's Get a Horse!, was produced in the black-and-white style of the early films and combining color CGI animation scenes.

Notable animators who worked on the series include Ub Iwerks, Norm Ferguson, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, and Fred Moore.

Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Pete, Clarabelle Cow Notes: Disney's first sound cartoon, selected to the National Film Registry in 1998.

After Tom Cat has a drink and goes out for the day with his rifle, Mickey, Minnie, and an army of mice break into the feline's home to play music with whatever they can get their little paws on.

Other appearances: Pete Mickey flirts with Minnie on the farm, but she spurns him, making him look bad in the eyes of his helper, Horace Horsecollar.

Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow Mickey sells animated hot dogs at a carnival and heckles rival barker Kat Nipp.

Mickey gives her a free hot dog, and later under the pale moonlight with the help of two alley cats, serenades Minnie outside her trailer with the 1904 hit song Sweet Adeline.

Other appearances: Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow Set in the desert of Mexico or the southwestern United States; Mickey enters "El Adobe Cafe" where Minnie works as a bar tender.

The group of fire fighters race to the blaze which engulfs a seven-storey building, but on the way the engine loses its water tank.

When the guard Peg Leg Pete falls asleep, Mickey leads the prisoners in some care-free, innovative music making, and eventually escape.

Other appearances: Clarabelle Cow, Pluto (prototypes), Pete Mickey reads about a gorilla named Beppo has escaped the local city zoo in the newspaper and calls Minnie to warn her.

That night after circling the wagons, the pioneers dance to "The Irish Washerwoman" and later hear on old goat sing an emotional rendition of "Nelly Gray".

Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Pluto Mickey and his friends spend a relaxing day at the beach going swimming and enjoying a picnic.

When Pluto accidentally retrieves an aggressive octopus from the ocean, the party fights him off using techniques learned earlier in the day, such as Horace's spitting of watermelon seeds and ejecting jars of pickled olives from Clarabelle's throat.

Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Pete Note: A close, but rather more elaborate remake of Disney's earlier Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Sky Scrappers (1928).

Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Pluto's shoulder angel and devil, kittens Note: Inspired Lend a Paw (1941)[18] Mickey and his friends put on a low-budget stage play adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Pluto, Pete; cameos by over 40 real-life celebrities Note: A 1991 colorized version is known to exist.

A movie ape kept at the store becomes inspired by the 1933 film King Kong, escapes his cage, abducts Minnie, and climbs a tower of boxes.

When Mickey goes into the basement to shut the water off, Pluto accidentally swallows a flashlight causing him to panic and eventually rip a hole in the kitchen screen door which lets in flies.

Other appearances: Pluto, Elmer Mickey and Donald are police officers who hunt down Peg Leg Pete after he dognapps Minnie's dog Fifi.

Other appearances: Donald Duck, Goofy as "The Goof", the Big Bad Wolf; cartoon versions of Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harpo Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Holt, Shirley Temple; cameos by Clarabelle Cow, Pluto, Fifi the Peke, the Three Little Pigs and other characters from the Silly Symphonies, other movie stars Mickey and Donald take the orphans out for a day in the park.

Before the program, Mickey unexpectedly finds Pluto backstage and sends him home, but the dog becomes distracted by an unattended magician's hat with a rabbit inside.

Other appearances: Donald Duck, Clarabelle Cow, Clara Cluck, Pluto; cameo by Goofy Mickey falls asleep while reading Through the Looking-Glass and has a dream based on the book.

Mickey struggles with a squatting stork, Donald fights a talking mainspring, Goofy gets knocked into a daze by an animatronic bell ringer.

Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy; cameos by Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Morty and Ferdie Notes: First cartoon to depict Mickey without a tail.

Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Pluto, Fifi the Peke Notes: Commercial film sponsored by the National Biscuit Company for the 1939 New York World's Fair.

[28] Other appearances: Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Clara Cluck Notes: Remake of the 1931 short The Birthday Party.

On Walt Disney Animation Studios' official YouTube channel, three complete cartoons have been released: Plane Crazy (1928), Steamboat Willie (1928), and Hawaiian Holiday (1937), and most of Thru the Mirror (1936) as seen on the Disneyland episode "The Plausible Impossible" (1956).

Film critic Leonard Maltin, who hosts the collection, implied that there was opposition to releasing the complete series because of some content now considered politically incorrect, such as racial and ethnic stereotypes.

Black-and-white introductory title of the short films between 1928 and 1929, also used for the 2013 short Get a Horse! . Pictured, Plane Crazy .
A 1932 poster promoting the cartoons