Fiddling Around / Just Mickey

Fiddling Around / Just Mickey
Mickey Mouse series
Directed by Walt Disney
Produced by Walt Disney
Voices by Walt Disney
Studio Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) March 14, 1930 (1930-03-14) (USA)
Color process Black & White
Running time 6:50
Language English
Preceded by The Barnyard Concert (1930)
Followed by The Cactus Kid (1930)

Just Mickey (copyrighted as Fiddling Around[1]) is a 1930 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Columbia Pictures. It was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon not by Ub Iwerks. Walt Disney plays Mickey Mouse.

Summary

Curtains part, and Mickey Mouse enters a stage, with his violin, to a more or less receptive audience. Mickey plays Traumerei and an Hungarian Rhapsody and eventually must leave the stage on account of his overwhelmed emotions. The audience cheers, the mouse re-enters, and as an encore plays the last measure of the William Tell overture; mockingly laughed at by one particular heckler, he nonetheless plays the piece to great success despite breaking his instrument and bow in half in the process.

References

  1. ^ Maltin, Leonard. Of Mice and Magic: a History of American Animated Cartoons. Von Hoffmann Press, Inc., 1980, p. 345.

External links

Just Mickey on YouTube