Clock Cleaners (1937)

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

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.

whimsicalslapstickupbeatplayfulfast-pacedchaoticenergeticnostalgic

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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