The Chain Gang (1930)

Directed by

Burt Gillett

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 36 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Mickey Mouse is in prison. He escapes with the help of a saw hidden in a cake. Bloodhounds track him through a swamp.

lightheartedplayfulwhimsicalenergeticslapstickbouncysepia-toned

What happens

The Chain Gang is a 1930 Mickey Mouse animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions for Columbia Pictures, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the twenty-first Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the sixth of that year. It is one of a group of shorts produced by Disney immediately after Ub Iwerks left the studio. The cartoon was primarily drawn by Norm Ferguson, and featured a pair of bloodhounds, who helped to track down Mickey after his prison escape. Although these dogs were not named, the style in which they were drawn makes them clear forerunners of Pluto, who first officially appeared a few months later in The Picnic. The animation for one of the bloodhound scenes in The Chain Gang was recycled as Pluto in four later cartoons. Additionally, a few scenes contain reused animation from the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Sagebrush Sadie. Since the cartoon was published 1930, it entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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