Wild Waves (1929)

Release Date:

15 August 1929 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Musical | Short

Plot:

At the beach, Minnie is swept out to sea by a wave (while still wearing her high heels!). Mickey struggles...

Plot Keywords:

Pelican | Beach | Walrus | Mickey Mouse | Anthropomorphism

Cast

Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Marcellite Garner	...	Minnie Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Carl W. Stalling	...	Walrus (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Burt Gillett		(uncredited)

Produced by
Walt Disney	....	producer

Original Music by
Carl W. Stalling		(uncredited)

Animation Department
Ub Iwerks	....	animator

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributors

• Celebrity Productions
• Columbia Pictures

Runtime:

7 min | Argentina:8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (Cinephone)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Soundtrack:

Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep

By The Sea With Mickey & Minnie

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

Lifeguard Mickey saves Minnie from the ocean's WILD WAVES. Such bravery surely deserves a musical celebration and a little romance.

This enjoyable early black & white film has a plot propelled entirely by its lively soundtrack. Walt Disney supplies Mickey with his squeaky speaking voice.

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 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 simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.