The Shindig
About The Shindig
Mickey and Minnie ride to a barn dance in a car packed with animals, singing "A-Hunting We Will Go," while Horace Horsecollar picks up Clarabelle Cow in a wheelbarrow sidecar. At the dance Mickey and Minnie play "Turkey in the Straw," then "Pop Goes the Weasel" on a pail, a washtub, and Minnie's underwear, and she slaps his hand. He tap-dances to "Old Folks at Home" on the harmonica while Clarabelle takes a solo. Mickey dances with Clarabelle, a dachshund, and Patricia Pigg, whose jump squashes him flat.
Cast & crew
More about The Shindig
Burt Gillett directed the twentieth Mickey Mouse short for Walt Disney, with animation by Dick Lundy and Ben Sharpsteen and a Columbia Pictures release. Walt Disney voices Mickey and Horace Horsecollar; Marcellite Garner voices Minnie and Clarabelle Cow.
Themes
Music
Bert Lewis wrote the music.
Preservation
A complete print survives.
Notes
- Before the dance Clarabelle is in bed reading Elinor Glyn's 1907 novel Three Weeks. She hides the book under the straw and covers herself when Horace pulls her tail.
- The short was banned in Ohio because of that book.
- Because it was published in 1930, it entered the public domain in the United States on 1 January 2026.
Scenes
- Clarabelle reads Three Weeks in bed and stuffs it under the straw when Horace arrives.
- Patricia Pigg lands on Mickey and flattens him.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Shindig (1930).webm)
