"A Silly Symphony"

Release Date September 26, 1936

Synopsis

The Three Mouseketeers must find different ways to escape the clutches of the devious Captain Katt.

Characters

Three Blind Mousketeers

Captain Katt

Credits

Director : Dave Hand

Animation : Johnny Cannon

Videos

United States

Cartoon Classics : Limited Gold Editions 2 : The Disney Dream Factory : 1933-1938

Italy

Pippo Pluto Paperino Supershow

C'era Una Volta un Topo

Laserdiscs

United States

The Disney Dream Factory 1933-1938

Japan

Mickey's Jungle Trouble

Once Upon a Mouse

Disney Cartoon Jubilee

The Three Little Pigs

DVD

Region 2 : United Kingdom

The Rescuers

Walt Disney's Fables : Volume 5

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #7 : Storybook Silly Symphonies

The Ink and Paint Club : #23 : The "Other" Mice

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by United Artists Pictures

Comments

A Silly Symphony.

From Rod Bennett : The title pun seems to have inspired this entire short, long before anyone thought of applying it to members of TV's "Mickey Mouse Club." The Bad Guy in this one -- the villainous Captain Cat -- is simply Peg Leg Pete sans deformity (but still with Billy Blecher's inimitable voice).

From Jerry Edwards : Simply - this stinks! Except for the well-done special effects of the mouse reflections in the collection of bottles (making it appear to be a mouse army and scaring away the cat), the story and art is so haphazard there is little there to keep my interest. I find the mice so irritating that I find myself rooting for the cat.

From Ryan : I didn't really care much for this short (as I'm not a big fan of the Silly Symphonies). It was rather dumb and not very funny at all. The cat should have gotten the mice and done away with them.

From Mike G : The three blind mice characters do not have much appeal-- not to mention there are several occasions when they do things they plainly would need to see to be able to do! The gags showing how they elude the cat are obvious and rarely ingenious definitely a lesser Silly Symphony.

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