Clock Cleaners (1937)

Director:

Ben Sharpsteen

Release Date:

15 October 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Comedy | Animation | Short

Plot:

Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are cleaning a large clock. Among the complications: Mickey fights a sleeping stork that doesn't want to leave...

Plot Keywords:

Donald Duck | Clock | Goofy | Stork | Mickey Mouse

Cast

Pinto Colvig	...	Goofy (voice)
Walt Disney	...	Mickey Mouse (voice)
Clarence Nash	...	Donald Duck (voice)

Runtime:

9 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:G

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Quotes:

Donald: Hey! What's the big idea?
Spring: What's the big idea?
Donald: Aw, shut up!
Spring: You shut up!
Donald: Oh yeah?
Spring: Oh yeah?
Donald: Says you!
Spring: Says you!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Mickey Mouse in Living Color (2001) (V)

Quite good

Though it is yet another 'everything goes wrong' cartoon (pretty much EVERY Disney short) this one has enough imagination to keep you amused. I remember watching it as a kid and being impressed with the set-pieces and hijinks even then.

Basically Mickey, Donald and Goofy are cleaning a huge clock tower, taller than all the little skyscrapers (surely no one would be able to tell the time from down on the street) at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. It's a risky dangerous job but they seem to all know what they're doing and never loose their footholds. But a big stork, an angry spring and a sleepwalking Goofy all make it end in disaster. Funny!