Motor Mania
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| Motor Mania
Goofy series |
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 Motor Mania poster. |
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| Directed by | Jack Kinney |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Story by | n/a |
| Voices by | Pinto Colvig John McLeish |
| Animation by | n/a |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Release date(s) | June 30, 1950 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 min (one reel) |
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Motor Mania is a cartoon made by the Walt Disney Company in 1950. In this madcap motoring animation, Goofy (marketed as being him - but apparently another character drawn in a similar style) transforms into a Mr. Hyde-type split personality, when he gets behind the wheel and provides the lowdown on how not to drive safely.
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The cartoon shows how the character, as the pleasant, friendly, and good-natured "Mr. Walker", undergoes a change in personality to the belligerent "Mr. Wheeler" when he gets behind the wheel of his car. Mr. Wheeler is self-centered, inconsiderate, and borderline violent. Upon reaching his destination in town (we are not shown the character's reason for traveling) and leaving his automobile, he reverts to the mild-mannered Mr. Walker, whereupon he is the victim of other motorists' unsafe (and sometimes even predatory) driving habits. However, once he returns to his car, he becomes Mr. Wheeler again, seeking to impose his own will upon traffic, to the point of blaming the tow truck that hauls him away for his slow pace after an auto accident.
This cartoon shows that road rage is not a new phenomenon, but an issue recurring each generation of drivers. Due to its subtle topicality, it and two 1965 Goofy cartoons about freeway safety (Freewayphobia #1 and Goofy's Freeway Trouble), have been shown in driving schools across the country.
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- Goofy's character, Mr. Walker, calls a neighbor "Mr. Geef", the name Goofy himself would go by in many of his "Goofy the Everyman" shorts of the 1950s.
- This short was awarded the Buyer Trophy for the best film on traffic safety.
- An excerpt of this cartoon was shown on the House of Mouse episode, Max's New Car.
