Thursday, October 30, 2014

Cartoons (Before 1950)

Mickey Mouse Piano Solo - The Opry House (1929)


citation
The Opry House. Prod. Disney. Perf. Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney Production Studios, 1929. Youtube.com.

This was Disney's fifth Mickey Mouse film. It is notable that this is the first film in which Mickey is wearing gloves. Disney chose to add the gloves so that his hands would be more visible against darker backgrounds or when they crossed across his body. In this short film, both animals and inanimate objects take on human characteristics. The curtain has the word "asbestos" on it which indicates that it is made of that material. Asbestos is fireproof and would prevent the spreading of a fire if one of the lights in a theater happened to cause one.




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