"A Mickey Mouse Cartoon"
Release Date December
30, 1928 (Copyright date : August 2, 1928)
Running time 6:22
Synopsis
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Gaucho Mickey flirts tempestuously with Minnie in a cantina, but must come
to her rescue when bandit Pete captures her. He only rescues her after a
manic swordfight.
Characters
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Mickey Mouse
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Minnie Mouse
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Pete
Credits
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Director : Walt Disney
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Animation : Ub Iwerks
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Music : Carl Stalling
Cut Scenes
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A scene of Minnie tango dancing has been cut, as well as scenes showing Mickey
smoking.
Laserdiscs
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United States
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Mickey Mouse : The
Black and White Years
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Japan
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Mickey Mouse : The
Black and White Years
DVD
- Disney Treasures : Mickey
Mouse in Black and White
Television
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The Ink and Paint Club : #28 :
Early Mickey
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Mickey's Mouse Tracks :
Episode #9
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Donald's Quack Attack :
Episode #27
Technical Specifications
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Color Type : Black and White
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Animation type : Standard
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Sound mix : Mono ; Cinephone
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Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1
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Negative format : 35mm
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Print format : 35mm
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Cinematographic process : Spherical
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Original language : English
Released by Celebrity Productions, Inc.
Gallery
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Comments
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This short was made as a parody of the Douglas Fairbanks film, "The Gaucho."
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From Jerry Edwards : I enjoy the cartoon,
but the sound doesn't do much for the short - it was obviously animated as
a silent cartoon, with sound added later.
I like several gags in the short. Mickey riding an ostrich instead of a horse
and tying the ostrich's neck to the hitching post. When the ostrich later
collapses in a drunken stupor during the chase of Pete to rescue Minnie,
Mickey "straightens" the ostrich with starch from a nearby farmhouse wash
tub.
One early sight gag is a wanted poster in the cantina for El Gaucho.
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From Calvin Daprice : In this short, Mickey
starts out as having those large eyes with the pupils in them as he did in
"Plane Crazy." The only difference is that he now has shoes. By the end of
the cartoon, he has his black oval eyes.
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From Ryan : At the beginning of this short,
Mickey does have his googly Felix- the -Cat- type of eyes. At the end, they
do turn into ovals. This is the first Mickey short in which Mickey meets
Pete. This short appears to take place in Argentina as the sign on the restaurant
reads "Cantina Argentina." One thing that puzzles me is why Mickey rides
an ostrich rather than a horse (seeing as there are no ostriches in South
America). Another thing that puzzles me is why the scene with Minnie tango
dancing was deleted. I see nothing offensive about that. Perhaps it was deleted
to fit within a certain time frame.
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From Lee Suggs : This short is interesting
in that Mickey was still a rogue. He smokes, drinks and tries to impress
a barmaid. Of course, Minnie is the barmaid, not a job that fits with the
sweet image she has today. When Pete appears he is a smaller, more fluid,
less menacing character than he would be in later shorts. Mickey, Minnie,
and Pete seem all seem to come the same lower class, rough background. Mickey
has not yet developed any moral weight, and the main difference between the
villain (Pete), and Mickey is that Pete is willing to force himself on Minnie.
It is interesting that Mickey developed into such a moral force when he began
as such an ambivalent rodent.
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From Bill : I'm very fortunate to have all
of Mickey's shorts, color and black and white. It is very interesting to
see how his character started to develop from a cigarette smoking, beer drinking
gaucho to the better known hero to children, the downtrodden and anyone else
who would have been bullied by the stronger opponent. Again, this "second"
silent short begins with Mickey saving Minnie from Pegleg Pete, a formula
we'll see throughout Mickey's career. The tango with Minnie is well animated
and the sword fight is also a classic. It also shows Minnie Mouse at the
start of her career as a rough and tumble saloon dancer, almost like the
flappers of the time. Again, a great historical short in Mickey's career.
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From Emiliano : There are no ostriches in
South America, however there are Rheas. Rheas, also known as nandu are large
flightless birds native to South America. More specifically Argentina, Brazil,
Chile and Uruguay. They are very similar in size and appearance to ostriches.
This one is my favorite of the first four Mickey cartoons. It's a product
of it's time obviously but that's one of the reasons I like it. The fact
that Mickey smokes and drinks is also highly amusing as far as I'm concerned.
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From Gijs Grob : Gallopin' Gaucho is Mickey's
second and last silent cartoon. If possible, he is even ruder in this short
than in 'Plane Crazy': according to a poster
in the background, he is a sought-after criminal, he smokes and drinks and
he dances a stout tango with Minnie. Nevertheless, this cartoon is also the
first in which Mickey shows to be a small, but clever and courageous hero.
For when Minnie is abducted by Peg Leg Pete (who, in his first appearance,
still has both his legs), Mickey rescues her in a heroic fight. He then earns
the kiss he tried to get by force in 'Plane
Crazy.' Due to the melodrama Gallopin' Gaucho contains less gags than
'Plane Crazy,' but it's still a wonderful cartoon
with ingenious gags like the scene in which Mickey uses his own tail as a
tackle. Gallopin' Gaucho also set out a storyline that was to be copied a
couple of times (e.g. The Cactus Kid
(1930), Mickey in Arabia (1932), The Klondike Kid (1932)) and self-consciously
parodied in 'Gallopin' Romance', the film shown in 'Mickey's Gala Premiere'.
Two final trivial remarks: one, Mickey's eyes change from the goggly to the
familiar ones when he whistles for his ostrich. Two, the bird Mickey's riding
might very well be a Rhea, a relative of the ostrich, that lives on the pampas
of Argentina.
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From Steven : This was a great cartoon with plenty of funny gags. This cartoon also features one of Carl Stalling's best musical scores in a Disney cartoon,but it's pretty obvious that this was originaly a silent cartoon (the characters say things but no talking comes out.) A great cartoon,I give it a 7 out of 10.
Referenced Comments
- Steamboat Willie (1928)
- The Barn Dance (1928)
- El Terrible Toreador (1929)
- The Cactus Kid (1930)
- The Klondike Kid (1932)
- Building a Building (1933)
- Mickey's Gala Premiere (1933)
