Underplayed Gems

Mickey's Orphans (1931)

Mickey's Orphans poster
Directed by
Burt Gillett
Genre
Christmas film
Country
United States
Runtime
7 min
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 48 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

At Christmastime, Mickey and Minnie take in a litter of kittens. The kittens cause trouble and mischief around the house.

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What happens

Mickey's Orphans is a 1931 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. The cartoon takes place during Christmas time and stars Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, and Pluto, who take in a group of disruptive and mischievous kittens. It is directed by Burt Gillett and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey and Marcellite Garner as Minnie. It was the 36th Mickey Mouse film and the twelfth of that year. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 5th Academy Awards in 1932, the award's inaugural year. It lost to another Disney film, Flowers and Trees, Disney's first color film. Mickey's Orphans is a remake of the 1927 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Empty Socks, the oldest Disney cartoon with a Christmas theme. The latter was considered lost, but an almost complete copy, missing about one minute, was found in The National Library of Norway in December 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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