The Plowboy

1929 AnimationComedy 6 minutes Directed by Walt Disney

About The Plowboy

Mickey is plowing with Horace Horsecollar. Minnie comes by and he drops the reins to flirt. She turns him down. Horace, who has been watching, is not impressed, and Mickey is left looking foolish while the horse goes back to the plow.

Cast & crew

More about The Plowboy

Walt Disney directed and wrote it. It is the eighth Mickey Mouse short. Celebrity Productions released it on June 28, 1929. Columbia later reissued it after Disney changed distributors. Carl W. Stalling wrote the music.

Themes

Music

Carl W. Stalling wrote the music.

Preservation

A print is on Wikimedia Commons as The Plowboy (1929).webm.

Notes

  • It is the eighth Mickey Mouse cartoon and the fifth released in 1929.
  • Horace Horsecollar is the plow horse, not a bystander.
  • Columbia Pictures reissued the short after Disney left Celebrity Productions.

Scenes

  • Mickey stops the plow mid-furrow to court Minnie and she walks off.
  • Horace watches the whole performance and goes back to work without him.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (The Plowboy (1929).webm)