The Pointer (1939)

Directed by

Clyde Geronimi

Genre

animation, comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

9 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Mickey Mouse takes his dog Pluto out for a quail hunt and tries to teach him how to be a proper pointer dog. Pluto keeps getting distracted and causes comedic trouble in the woods.

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What happens

The Pointer is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures on July 21, 1939, shown in theaters with Way Down South. The short was directed by Clyde Geronimi and animated by Fred Moore, Frank Thomas, Lynn Karp, Seamus Culhane, Ollie Johnston, Preston Blair, Lester Norvi, John Lounsbery, Claude Smitha, Art Palmer, and Josh Meador. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoon) in 1940. It was the 106th short in the Mickey Mouse film series to be released, and the third for that year. The cartoon follows Mickey Mouse as he tries to teach his dog Pluto to be a pointer dog during a quail hunt. It was directed by Clyde Geronimi and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey and Lee Millar as Pluto. Although often cited as the animated debut of Mickey's modern character design, this actually occurred six months earlier in The Standard Parade of 1939. Nevertheless, The Pointer is still considered a milestone Mickey Mouse film for its background art and Mickey's acting which was personally staged by Walt Disney. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 12th Academy Awards in 1940, but ultimately lost to Disney's own The Ugly Duckling, the final installment of the Silly Symphony series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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