The Flying Mouse

The Flying Mouse
The Flying Mouse
Directed by	David Hand
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Bea Benaderet; Clarence Nash
Music by	Frank Churchill; Bert Lewis
Animation by	Hamilton Luske; Bob Kuwahara; ;
Backgrounds by
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists Pictures
Release date	July 14, 1934
Running time	9 min
Country	United States
Language	English

The Flying Mouse is a 1934 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by David Hand, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 14, 1934.^[1] The use of color here was rather innovative as it is set during the course of a single day.

Plot[]

To the tune "I Would Like to Be a Bird," a young mouse fashions wings from a pair of leaves, to the great amusement of his brothers. When his attempts to use them fail, he falls into the tub and shrinks his sister's dress and gets spanked by his mother. When a butterfly calls for help, he rescues it from a spider. When the butterfly proves to be a fairy, the mouse wishes for wings. But his bat-like appearance doesn't fit in with either the birds or the other mice, and he finds himself friendless; even the bats make fun of him, making a point that he is "Nothin' But A Nothin'". The butterfly fairy reappears and removes the mouse's wings, telling him: “Be yourself and life will smile on you.”

Production[]

The Flying Mouse boy and his mother make an appearance as spectators in the 1936 Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Polo Team.

Voice cast[]

Bat: Billy Sheets
Male voices: The Three Rhythm Kings
Bird whistles: Marion Darlington
Laughing mice: Marcellite Garner^[1]

Home media[]

The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics.^[2]^[1]

It was also released as a bonus feature, alongside fellow Silly Symphony short Elmer Elephant, on DVD/Blu-Ray releases of Dumbo.

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 146–147. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.
^ "Silly Symphonies: The Historic Musical Animated Classics DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 20 February 2021.

External links[]

The Flying Mouse at IMDb
The Flying Mouse at The Big Cartoon DataBase
The Flying Mouse at the Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts

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[symphony1-1] Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 146–147. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.

[2] "Silly Symphonies: The Historic Musical Animated Classics DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 20 February 2021.

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