Mickey Mouse escapes from prison.Mickey Mouse escapes from prison.Mickey Mouse escapes from prison.
Pinto Colvig
- Hounds
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Walt Disney
- Mickey Mouse
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Lee Millar
- Hounds
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Burt Gillett(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis was the first appearance of Pluto.
- GoofsAfter Mickey gets over the prison wall, he tries to run away, but is pulled back by the weight of the ball and the chain breaks, yet Mickey still carries the ball when he could just run away and leave the ball.
- Alternate versionsAlso available in a computer colorized version.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Magical World of Disney: A Story of Dogs (1954)
- SoundtracksSong of the Volga Boat Men
(uncredited)
Traditional
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Pluto's Debut in Cartoonland
In Mickey Mouse's twenty-first cartoon for Walt Disney Productions, Mickey is a convict in prison who participants in a breakout. A guard emerges from the building with two dogs that sniff the trail of the escapees. According to author Gijs Grob, an expert on Mickey Mouse, "These hounds are possibly the most elaborately designed and most naturally behaving animals in any theatrical cartoon hitherto." One of the dogs eventually morphed into the Disney character Pluto. The cartoon, August 1930's "The Chain Gang," marked the first appearance of one of Disney's more popular animated creations.
Ub Iwerks, who had been with Disney from the start of his business career and was responsible for first sketching the Mickey Mouse character, left Walt in May 1930. One of his replacements was Norm Ferguson, a cameraman with the company since 1929, who switched to the drawing board despite no formal art training. An early assignment of his was to draw the two hounds chasing Mickey. Ferguson modeled the dogs after his own English Pointer. He received praise from his colleagues after "The Chain Gang" was released. Don Graham, an in-house art instructor at Disney, describes "The dogs were alive, real. They seemed to breathe. They moved like dogs, not drawings of dogs. The drawings explained not so much what a real dog looked like, but what a real dog did."
First named Rover in October 1930's 'The Picnic,' as Minnie's pet, Pluto received his permanent name as Mickey's dog in May 1931's 'The Moose Hunt.' The lively dog was reportedly named after the newly discovered (dwarf) planet, Pluto, in the spring of 1930. He's the only animal friend of Mickey's who doesn't have human traits, unlike his counterpart dog Goofy. He communicates with facial and physical expressions as well as barking and grunting. But he's been a popular figure for Disney, appearing in 24 Mickey Mouse films and 90 cartoons from 1930 until 1953. He's seen in several Disney feature films and is currently one of the star attractions at both Disney parks.
Ub Iwerks, who had been with Disney from the start of his business career and was responsible for first sketching the Mickey Mouse character, left Walt in May 1930. One of his replacements was Norm Ferguson, a cameraman with the company since 1929, who switched to the drawing board despite no formal art training. An early assignment of his was to draw the two hounds chasing Mickey. Ferguson modeled the dogs after his own English Pointer. He received praise from his colleagues after "The Chain Gang" was released. Don Graham, an in-house art instructor at Disney, describes "The dogs were alive, real. They seemed to breathe. They moved like dogs, not drawings of dogs. The drawings explained not so much what a real dog looked like, but what a real dog did."
First named Rover in October 1930's 'The Picnic,' as Minnie's pet, Pluto received his permanent name as Mickey's dog in May 1931's 'The Moose Hunt.' The lively dog was reportedly named after the newly discovered (dwarf) planet, Pluto, in the spring of 1930. He's the only animal friend of Mickey's who doesn't have human traits, unlike his counterpart dog Goofy. He communicates with facial and physical expressions as well as barking and grunting. But he's been a popular figure for Disney, appearing in 24 Mickey Mouse films and 90 cartoons from 1930 until 1953. He's seen in several Disney feature films and is currently one of the star attractions at both Disney parks.
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