The Klondike Kid (1932)

Director:

Wilfred Jackson

Release Date:

12 November 1932 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Comedy | Short | Musical

Plot:

Mickey plays piano in the Klondike Bar. He rescues a depressed, half-frozen Minnie. Pegleg Pierre comes storming in and steals her away...

Plot Keywords:

Cartoon Cat | Cat | Dog | Mouse | Dog Cartoon

Cast

Billy Bletcher	...	Pierre (voice)
Pinto Colvig	...	Goofy / Pluto (voice)
Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)
Marcellite Garner	...	Minnie Mouse (voice)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Quotes:

Mickey Mouse: Hello.
Minnie Mouse: [sobbing] Hello.
Mickey Mouse: Who are you?
Minnie Mouse: I'm nobody.
Mickey Mouse: Ain't you got no folks?
Minnie Mouse: Nobody!
Mickey Mouse: Just an orphan?
Minnie Mouse: Oh, there's nobody!
Mickey Mouse: Ha ha! Me too. Guess we're both nobodys.
[both laugh]

Movie Connections:

Featured in Frank and Ollie... and Mickey (2002) (V)

Mickey's Arctic Adventure

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Klondike Bar's saloon, when Peg-leg Pete arrived out of the Arctic blast to kidnap poor waif Minnie from the arms of THE KLONDIKE KID.

Inspired by Robert W. Service's famous poem - `The Shooting of Dan McGrew' - this is a splendid little black & white film full of humor and action. Mickey gets to show-off his talents as a ragtime pianist, while an early version of Goofy makes a brief appearance dancing with a piggy hostess & Pluto acts as Mickey's single sled dog. Typically, the animators subject helpless Minnie to a rather cruel panties gag. Walt Disney provides Mickey's squeaky 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.