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''Get a Horse!'' is a 2013 American
animated Animation is a filmmaking technique whereby image, still images are manipulated to create Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on cel, transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and e ...
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produced by
Walt Disney Animation Studios Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that produces animated feature films and short films for the Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a s ...
and directed by
Lauren MacMullan Lauren Hunter MacMullan (born April 30, 1964) is an American animation director. She grew up in the Pennsylvania suburbs of Havertown, Lansdowne and Swarthmore, and graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1982. She attended Harvard University, ...
. Combining
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hand-drawn animation and
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computer animation Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating Film, moving images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both still images and moving images, while computer animation refers to moving images. Virtu ...
, the short features the characters of the late 1920s ''
Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large shoes, and white ...
'' cartoons. The film features archival recordings of
Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several develop ...
, Billy Bletcher and Marcellite Garner in their respective posthumous roles as
Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large shoes, and white ...
, Peg Leg Pete and
Minnie Mouse Minerva "Minnie" Mouse is an American cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. The longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse, she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a red or pink bow, blue (or pink or red) polka-dotted dress, w ...
.
Russi Taylor Russi Taylor (May 4, 1944 – July 26, 2019) was an American voice actress. She was best remembered for voicing the character of Minnie Mouse in English from 1986 to 2019, and was married to voice actor Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, ...
and
Will Ryan William Ryan (May 21, 1949 – November 19, 2021) was an American voice actor, musician and singer. He provided the voice of Petrie in the 1988 animated film '' The Land Before Time''. He was also known for his voice work as Eugene Meltsner in t ...
provide some of Minnie's and Pete's lines (Mickey’s final line "Goodbye, goodbye, little feller!" is an uncredited line by Jimmy MacDonald sourced from an archival recording. Disney's voice is also heard as Minnie in one instance crying out "Help! Help! Help! Help!", though he is uncredited in that role.) It is the first original Mickey Mouse theatrical animated short since '' Runaway Brain'' in 1995, and the first appearance of
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (also known as Oswald the Rabbit, Oswald Rabbit, and Ozzie) is an animated series, animated cartoon character created in 1927 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal Pictures. He starred in several animated short film ...
in a Disney animated production in 85 years, albeit for a split second cameo.


Plot

Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large shoes, and white ...
walks from his house and spots
Horace Horsecollar Horace Horsecollar is a cartoon character created in 1929 at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Horace is a tall anthropomorphic black horse and is one of Mickey Mouse's best friends. Characterized as a boastful show-off, Horace served as Mickey’s s ...
pulling a hay wagon with all his friends playing music. He hops on and helps
Minnie Mouse Minerva "Minnie" Mouse is an American cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. The longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse, she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a red or pink bow, blue (or pink or red) polka-dotted dress, w ...
and
Clarabelle Cow Clarabelle Cow is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company. As an anthropomorphic Cattle, cow, Clarabelle is one of Minnie Mouse's best friends. She was once depicted as the girlfriend of Horace Horsecollar, although now she is oft ...
onto the wagon. Just then,
Peg-Leg Pete Pete (also named Peg Leg Pete, Bad Pete and Black Pete, among other names) is a cartoon character created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks of The Walt Disney Company. Pete is traditionally depicted as the villainous Archenemy, arch-nemesis of Mickey ...
shows up in his jalopy, spots Minnie, and gives her a flirty gaze, only for Mickey to put Clarabelle in Minnie's place. Angry at being pranked, Pete kidnaps Minnie and rams his car into the wagon, sending Mickey and Horace flying toward the screen and causing them to burst from their two-dimensional, black-and-white world to the three-dimensional, modern movie theater in full color. As Mickey tries to return to his world, Horace walks onto the stage carrying items, such as an
iPhone The iPhone is a line of smartphones developed and marketed by Apple that run iOS, the company's own mobile operating system. The first-generation iPhone was announced by then–Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007, at ...
and a box of
Milk Duds Milk Duds are a brand of candies made with chocolate, created in 1928 by Hoffman and Company of Chicago and now produced and marketed by The Hershey Company, under license from owners of the brand, Highlander Partners, a Dallas-based global priva ...
. Mickey uses Horace as a mock
biplane A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other. The first powered, controlled aeroplane to fly, the Wright Flyer, used a biplane wing arrangement, as did many aircraft in the early years of aviation. While ...
to fly around the theater and fire at Pete with the Milk Duds like bullets. When they crash-land onto the stage, Mickey sees the iPhone and uses it to call Pete on his candlestick phone, and Horace sprays foam from a fire extinguisher into the phone and out of Pete's after he answers it. Pete's car then lands in a frozen lake, and the screen fills with water, giving Mickey the idea to poke a hole in the screen with his tail and let the water leak out, causing Pete, Minnie, and the other cartoon animals to flood onto the stage. Mickey and Minnie's reunion is short-lived, as Pete chases the gang in and out of the screen until he grabs Minnie again, hits Mickey onto a support beam, and nails the screen shut. Horace and the others try to break through the screen, but flip it upside-down, causing Pete to fall from the ground. Getting an idea, Minnie encourages Mickey to flip the screen again, which sets off a chain of further misfortunes until Pete is launched face-first into his car. Then, Horace's hand gets stuck behind the screen. Mickey tries to pull him out, but only succeeds in spinning the screen like a flip book, which rewinds the scene. Seeing this as an opportunity, Mickey and Horace begin spinning the screen until Pete is completely dazed and knocked out. Minnie then drives Pete's car with Pete in tow and completely tears the screen down, revealing the black-and-white world into color and CGI. With Pete still knocked out, Mickey and his friends enter their world again while Pete's car horn tells him to get a horse and Mickey and Minnie kiss Horace on the cheeks while he blushes. As the iris closes, Pete, who has woken up by now, tries to get back in through the screen but gets his head (and body) stuck. Seconds later, the flap on Pete's pants opens up to reveal the phrase "THE END" on his posterior.


Cast

*
Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several develop ...
and Jimmy MacDonald as
Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse is an American cartoon character co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company, Mickey is an anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large shoes, and white ...
*
Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several develop ...
, Marcellite Garner, and
Russi Taylor Russi Taylor (May 4, 1944 – July 26, 2019) was an American voice actress. She was best remembered for voicing the character of Minnie Mouse in English from 1986 to 2019, and was married to voice actor Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, ...
as
Minnie Mouse Minerva "Minnie" Mouse is an American cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. The longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse, she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a red or pink bow, blue (or pink or red) polka-dotted dress, w ...
* Billy Bletcher and
Will Ryan William Ryan (May 21, 1949 – November 19, 2021) was an American voice actor, musician and singer. He provided the voice of Petrie in the 1988 animated film '' The Land Before Time''. He was also known for his voice work as Eugene Meltsner in t ...
as Peg Leg Pete * Raymond S. Persi as Car Horn ;Additional voices * Bob Bergen * Paul Briggs *
Jess Harnell Jess Harnell (born December 23, 1963) is an American voice actor. His roles include Wakko Warner in ''Animaniacs'', Captain Hero in '' Drawn Together'', Jerry in the first two seasons of '' Totally Spies!'', Ironhide in the first three ''Tr ...
*
Mona Marshall Mona Marshall is an American television and voice actress, known for her work in a number of cartoons, anime shows, films and video games. Her major credits include ''South Park'', where she voices many of the female characters on the show, '' .h ...
* Terri Douglas * Danya Joseph * Nicole Mitchell


Films used

*''
Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip ''Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip'' is a 1940 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was directed by Clyde Geronimi and features original music by Leigh Harline and Oliver Wallac ...
'' (1940) *'' Mickey and the Seal'' (1948)


Production

''Get a Horse!'' was conceived and directed by
Lauren MacMullan Lauren Hunter MacMullan (born April 30, 1964) is an American animation director. She grew up in the Pennsylvania suburbs of Havertown, Lansdowne and Swarthmore, and graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1982. She attended Harvard University, ...
, who became the first woman to solo direct a Disney animated film. She started working on the short after ''
Wreck-It Ralph ''Wreck-It Ralph'' is a 2012 American animated comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It was directed by Rich Moore and produced by Clark Spencer, from a screenplay by Phil Johnston (filmmaker), Phil Johnston and Jennifer Lee ( ...
'' director,
Rich Moore Rich Moore (born ) is an American film and television animation director, screenwriter and voice actor. He is best known for serving as a director on primetime animated television series such as ''The Simpsons'', ''The Critic'' and ''Futuram ...
, told her that Disney was looking for some Mickey Mouse ideas for television. Being fond of the earliest Mickey Mouse shorts, mostly because of their simplicity and freshness, she opted for a style resembling the 1920s " rubber hose" animation style prevalent at the time. Produced in a year and 6 months, its
hand-drawn animation Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation of the 20th century, until there was a shif ...
was supervised by Eric Goldberg, and its
computer animation Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating Film, moving images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both still images and moving images, while computer animation refers to moving images. Virtu ...
by Adam Green. To achieve the 1928 look, aging and blur filters were added to the image, while for the CGI part, they created new models, faithful to the character designs of 1928. The look of Pete's clothing and car were inspired by his design in the 1929 short ''
The Barn Dance ''The Barn Dance'' is a 1929 American animated short film and the third short film in the ''Mickey Mouse (film series), Mickey Mouse'' film series; it was the first of twelve shorts released during that year. It was directed by Walt Disney with ...
''. Originally temporary, the production team incorporated archival recordings of
Walt Disney Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several develop ...
's Mickey Mouse voice from 1928 to 1947, and spliced it into the character's dialogue. However, they did not find recordings of the word "red", so the crew took three sounds, a "rrr", a "ehh", and a "duh" from Disney's recordings and spliced them together. ''Get a Horse!'' would become the last theatrical short film where
Minnie Mouse Minerva "Minnie" Mouse is an American cartoon character created by the Walt Disney Company. The longtime sweetheart of Mickey Mouse, she is an anthropomorphic mouse with white gloves, a red or pink bow, blue (or pink or red) polka-dotted dress, w ...
would be voiced by
Russi Taylor Russi Taylor (May 4, 1944 – July 26, 2019) was an American voice actress. She was best remembered for voicing the character of Minnie Mouse in English from 1986 to 2019, and was married to voice actor Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey Mouse, ...
, almost six years before her death in 2019.


Release

''Get a Horse!'' premiered June 11, 2013, at the
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in Annecy, France. It made its United States premiere on August 9, 2013, at the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, and theatrically accompanied Walt Disney Animation Studios' '' Frozen'', which was released on November 27, 2013. Since 2016, ''Get a Horse!'' is presented as part of the Disney-Pixar Short Film Festival attraction at Disney's Epcot theme park in Orlando, Florida, where it is shown in digital 3-D along with two Pixar short films. It is also part of the Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Short Film Collection.


Home media

''Get a Horse!'' made its home debut on the Blu-ray 3D,
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and
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releases of '' Frozen'' on March 18, 2014. It was later released on the ''
Walt Disney Animation Studios Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that produces animated feature films and short films for the Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a s ...
Short Films Collection'' Blu-ray on August 18, 2015. The short was re-released on Blu-ray/DVD/Digital on the ''Celebrating Mickey'' compilation, released October 23, 2018. ''Celebrating Mickey'' was reissued in 2021 as part of the U.S. Disney Movie Club exclusive ''The Best of Mickey Collection'' along with '' Fantasia'' and ''
Fantasia 2000 ''Fantasia 2000'' is a 1999 American animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Produced by Roy E. Disney and Donald W. Ernst, it is the sequel to Disney's 1940 animated feature film '' Fantasia''. Like its p ...
'' (Blu-ray/DVD/Digital).


Streaming

''Get a Horse!'' was available on
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in North America on October 25, 2015, released in the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection, which also included ''
Frozen Fever ''Frozen Fever'' is a 2015 American animated musical fantasy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. A follow-up to the 2013 feature film '' Frozen'', the short follows Elsa as she attempts to ...
'' and '' Paperman'', as one film title on the service. The title was removed from Netflix on October 25, 2021, six years after it was added. The short film, and most of the others that were released on Netflix, were made available to stream individually, rather than one single collection, on
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on November 12, 2021, for the first Disney+ Day.


Reception

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of ''
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'' lauded the short film as "one of the wittiest and most inventive animated shorts in a long time". He particularly points out that the film "begins as an early black-and-white Mickey Mouse cartoon but then bursts its boundaries into color and 3D in marvelously antic ways that call to mind the stepping-off-the-screen techniques of
Buster Keaton Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent films during the 1920s, in which he performed physical comedy and inventive stunts. He frequently ...
's '' Sherlock Jr.'' and
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's ''
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''. It's a total winner." Scott Foundas of ''Variety'' agreed, labeling the film as "utterly dazzling". Drew McWeeny of
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lauded it as "the perfect companion piece" and "enormously entertaining". He continues on that "Filmmaker Lauren MacMullan perfectly nails the look and feel of the early days of the Disney studio, and it is the first time I have ever laughed out loud at Mickey Mouse. It's an inventive and technically precise short, and it also celebrates and deconstructs Disney's animated history in a very fun way."


Accolades


See also

* List of Mickey Mouse films and appearances *
Sound collage In music, montage (literally "putting together") or sound collage ("gluing together") is a technique where newly branded sound objects or Musical composition, compositions, including songs, are created from collage, also known as musique concrè ...
* Sampling


References


External links

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