Underplayed Gems

Clock Cleaners (1937)

Clock Cleaners poster
Directed by
Ben Sharpsteen
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
9 min
Rated
NR
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 158 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

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy work together as janitors cleaning a tall clock tower. Their simple job turns into a series of comic mishaps and physical gags.

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What happens

Clock Cleaners is a 1937 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon follows Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy working as janitors in a tall clock tower. The film was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and features original music by Paul Smith and Oliver Wallace. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey, Clarence Nash as Donald, and Pinto Colvig as Goofy. It was the 97th short in the Mickey Mouse film series to be released, and the eighth for that year. Clock Cleaners is one of Disney's most critically acclaimed short films. In 1994, 1,000 members of the animation field voted Clock Cleaners as the 27th greatest cartoon of all time. This cartoon was released two months before Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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