Dick Whittington's Cat
A cowardly cat has several adventures involving pugnacious mice.
Ub Iwerks
Director
Casts & Crew
Billy Bletcher
Cook
Also Directed by Ub Iwerks
Celebrate one of the world's most famous characters in this timeless collection of Mickey's most memorable cartoons. VINTAGE MICKEY features the classic "Steamboat Willie," which marked the first appearance of Mickey and Minnie Mouse, as well as other landmark animated shorts, including the Academy Award(R)-nominated "Mickey's Orphans" (Best Short Subject, Cartoons, 1931-32) and "Building A Building" (Best Short Subject, Cartoons, 1932-33). It's an exciting, fun, and wonderful look back at the funny little mouse who became a family favorite all around the world.
The Big Bad Wolf stalks Little Bo Peep and steals one of her sheep. She enlists Little Boy Blue and a dancing scarecrow to assist her and her mischievous black sheep in rescuing it. Singing, dancing, hilarity and impalement ensue.
Flowers, insects, and a crow family all dance to a jaunty tune celebrating spring. After a brief storm, grasshoppers, frogs, and spiders cavort to the Dance of the Hours.
A young grizzly bear, undaunted by his mother's warnings of the coming winter, runs away from home only to be confronted by Old Man Winter himself.
Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.
Mickey runs a small theatre. The orchestra plays, rather badly, excerpts from Carmen. Mickey appears as a snake charmer, but the snake is revealed to be a cat with a snake's head painted on its tail. Mickey does a belly dance, to the audience's delight. Mickey then plays the piano, but the piano and stool, apparently annoyed at the violence and complexity of the piece, kick him off stage.
Flip schemes to get himself hired as an office boy at the Screwy Nuts & Bolts factory, especially because of the attractive typist. He starts well, using a cat's tongue to lick a stack of envelopes.
Playing cards come to life. As in the nursery rhyme, the queen of hearts bakes some tarts; the jack of hearts steals them.
Willie Whopper tells a tall tale of his girlfriend being carried off by a Sultan and his efforts to rescue her.
Willie Whopper and his dog visit Hell, where they meet Satan, Cerberus, and some of the infamous members of the damned.
