The Picnic (1930)

Directed by

Burt Gillett

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Mickey Mouse and his friends go on a picnic outing. The short introduces a dog named Rover, who later became Pluto.

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What happens

The Picnic is a 1930 American animated short film directed by Burt Gillett and produced by Walt Disney. It was first released on October 9, 1930, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the twenty-third Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the eighth of that year. The cartoon is notable as the first appearance of a pet dog called "Rover", an early version of a character that was renamed Pluto six months later, in the April 1931 cartoon The Moose Hunt. Due to being published in 1930, the cartoon entered the public domain on January 1, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• The Moose Hunt (1931)
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