Mickey's Mellerdrammer (1933)

Directed by

Wilfred Jackson

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Mickey Mouse and his friends put on a stage version of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. The characters perform in exaggerated costumes and makeup.

whimsicalold-fashionedplayfuldatedsillytheatricalinnocent

What happens

Mickey's Mellerdrammer is a 1933 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The title is a corruption of "melodrama", thought to harken back to the earliest minstrel shows, as a film short based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and stars Mickey Mouse and his friends who stage their own production of the novel. It was the 54th Mickey Mouse short film, and the fourth of that year. The cartoon shows Mickey Mouse and some other characters dressed in blackface with exaggerated lips, bushy sidewhiskers made out of cotton, and the usual white gloves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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