Mickey's Choo-Choo
About Mickey's Choo-Choo
Mickey is engineer of a little steam engine that eats coal from the tender and burps. He sits down to spaghetti, Minnie arrives with a fiddle, and she plays Dvořák's Humoresque while he joins in. He looks at his watch and calls "All aboard." The engine cannot climb a hill, the boxcar breaks loose with Minnie aboard, and it strips the feathers off Pete's ducks, hits Clarabelle Cow, and smashes into a tree. The wreck turns into a seesaw, and Mickey and Minnie pump it away like a handcar.
Cast & crew
More about Mickey's Choo-Choo
Walt Disney directed and Ub Iwerks animated the eleventh Mickey Mouse short. Carl Stalling wrote the music, Celebrity Productions distributed the 1929 release, and Columbia Pictures later reissued it. Disney speaks both Mickey and Minnie.
Themes
Background
The short belongs to the 1929 run of Mickey cartoons that made the character a national fad by the end of that year.
In film history
The last image, Mickey and Minnie working a handcar, was manufactured as a toy by Lionel.
Music
Carl Stalling wrote the score.
Preservation
Originally black and white. American Film Technologies issued a colorized version in 1991.
Notes
- It is the eleventh Mickey short produced and the eighth released in 1929.
- Some of the train gags are reused from the 1927 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Trolley Troubles.
- This is the first Mickey cartoon in which he says more than a word or two, in a voice that sounds like Disney's own.
- Minnie's runaway ride is scored to "Dixie," and Mickey sings "I've Been Working on the Railroad.
Scenes
- The engine eats too much coal and burps.
- The loose boxcar plucks Pete's ducks and collides with Clarabelle.
- Mickey and Minnie ride the broken car off like a railroad handcar.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (011 - Mickey's Choo-Choo.webm)
Quotes
All aboard!
