Fiddling Around (1930)

Directed by

Walt Disney

Genre

comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rated

AP

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Mickey Mouse puts on a one-mouse show playing the violin on stage. An unseen audience cheers and heckles him through the performance.

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What happens

Fiddlin’ Around (alternately titled Just Mickey) is a 1930 animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Columbia Pictures as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the sixteenth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the first of that year. The film is a one-person show with Mickey Mouse playing a violin on stage; Mickey is the only character to appear in the film, apart from the unseen audience including an equally unseen heckler. It was directed by Walt Disney and is the first Mickey cartoon not animated by Ub Iwerks. Along with other Mickey Mouse shorts produced the same year, Fiddlin Around entered the public domain on January 1, 2026. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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