Mickey's Mellerdrammer
Mickey's Mellerdrammer is a 1933 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The title is a corruption of "melodrama", thought to harken back to the earliest minstrel shows, as a film short based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and stars Mickey Mouse and his friends who stage their own production of the novel. It was the 54th Mickey Mouse short film, and the fourth of that year.
Plot
In Mickey's Mellerdrammer, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy (known then as Dippy Dawg), Horace Horsecollar, and others present their own low budget light-hearted rendition of the 19th century Tom Shows for a crowd in a barn converted into a theater for the occasion.
More details
author | Wilfred Jackson |
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director | Wilfred Jackson |
editor | Walt Disney Wilfred Jackson |
genre | animation drama |
keywords | 19th century animate blackface clarabelle cow come out dippy dawg dressing room goofy horace horsecollar mickey mouse minnie mouse sight gag simon legree slave girl slave owner tom shows uncle tom uncle tom's cabin |
musicBy | Oliver Wallace |
producer | Walt Disney |
productionCompany | Walt Disney Animation Studios |
publisher | United Artists |
theme | animated animated short melodrama short |