Underplayed Gems

The Jazz Fool (1929)

The Jazz Fool poster
Directed by
Walt Disney
Genre
animation
Country
United States
Runtime
6 min
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 29 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Mickey Mouse sings and plays music. He entertains a crowd of farm animals with his piano and dancing.

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What happens

The Jazz Fool is a 1929 American animated short film. It is the twelfth film of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the twelfth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the ninth of that year. It was released on October 15, 1929, by Celebrity Productions. Columbia Pictures reissued the film after Walt Disney Productions switched distributors. The cartoon's title combines the titles of two Al Jolson films: The Jazz Singer (1927) and The Singing Fool (1928). An early version of Horace Horsecollar appears, but is not yet the anthropomorphized character that he later evolves into. The only dialogue is Mickey singing to a tune using "dohs". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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