When the Cat's Away
About When the Cat's Away
While Tom Cat is out hunting, Mickey, Minnie, and the other mice break into his house and play. Some work the piano. Others hit household objects in time. In this short Mickey and Minnie are the size of ordinary mice, and Tom is the size of a person. Walt Disney directed. It is the sixth Mickey Mouse film.
Cast & crew
More about When the Cat's Away
Ub Iwerks and Ben Sharpsteen animated it. Carl W. Stalling wrote the music. Disney produced it. It comes from the Alice comedy Alice Rattled by Rats. Celebrity Productions released it on 3 May 1929. Columbia reissued it after Disney changed distributors. Wikidata times it at 7 minutes. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Music
Carl W. Stalling wrote the music the mice play on the piano and the household objects.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- It was the third Mickey short made in 1929 and the sixth produced.
- The scale is the point: the mice are mouse-sized.
- The Commons file is When the Cat's Away (1929).
Scenes
- The mice take over Tom's piano while he is out.
Influenced by
- Alice Rattled by Rats
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (When the Cat's Away)
