The Karnival Kid (1929)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Walt Disney

Release Date:

23 May 1929 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Comedy | Animation | Short

Plot:

Mickey is selling hot dogs at a carnival next to the tent for Minnie the Shimmy Dancer. He gets into an argument with the barker...

Plot Keywords:

Carnival | Roller Coaster | Kat Nipp | Carousel | Minnie Mouse

Cast

Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)
Marcellite Garner	...	Minnie Mouse (voice)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Cinephone

Certification:

USA:Approved

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

The first cartoon in which Mickey Mouse speaks. His first words are "Hot dogs!"

Goofs:

Continuity: Mickey is supposed to have only four franks for the hot dogs, but in one shot there are five.

Quotes:

Mickey Mouse: [first words spoken by Mickey Mouse] Hot dogs, hot dogs.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Circus (1932)

Mr. Mouse & His Performing Frankfurters

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

Mickey, THE KARNIVAL KID, woos Minnie the Shimmy Dancer.

Full of the quirky humor of artist Ub Iwerks, this very enjoyable black & white film is a delight. Despite its age, the animation has an unexpected panache, with Mickey's hot dogs stealing the show. Look for an early cameo by Clarabelle Cow as the bovine attached to the balloon. Mickey's voice does not sound like Walt Disney this time.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.