Underplayed Gems

Orphan's Benefit (1934)

Orphan's Benefit poster
Directed by
Burt Gillett
Genre
family film
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Mickey Mouse and his friends put on a vaudeville show for a group of orphans. The orphans are unruly and cause trouble for the performers.

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What happens

Orphan's Benefit is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions in black-and-white. It was first released in 1934 and was later remade in Technicolor in 1941 under the corrected title Orphans' Benefit. It was the 68th Mickey Mouse short film to be released, and the sixth of 1934. The cartoon features Mickey Mouse and his friends putting on a vaudeville-style benefit show for a group of unruly orphans. It contains a number of firsts for Disney, including the first time in which Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck appear together. It was also the cartoon which had the first story to be written that featured Donald Duck, though it was the second Donald Duck short to be produced and released, after The Wise Little Hen. Orphans' Benefit features original music composed by Frank Churchill. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey, Clarence Nash as Donald, and Florence Gill as Clara Cluck. The original cartoon was directed by Burt Gillett and distributed by United Artists while the remake was directed by Riley Thomson and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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