Originally published at: The Haunted House is a great Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1929 | Boing Boing
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was mildly cute until the blackface scene.
I’ve seen very few super-early Mickey cartoons. I was surprised by how rudimentary the soundtrack is. Both Mickey’s voice and the ghost’s sound as if they were cast from the animation staff like the Fleischer cartoons. Things pick up when the music begins, though. The other thing that strikes me is how often Mickey plays to the audience, something he’d never do in future cartoons.
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Well, Mickey was Walt, so at least half right.
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Check out “The Mad Doctor”, or as my daughter used to ask for it when she was little, “tuntun (skeleton) Mickey”.
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This one?
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That’s the one! But you can see how much development had happened in 4 short years.
See also: 1937’s Lonesome Ghosts, notable because Mickey, Goofy and Donald are running a ghost extermination company that, I’m fairly convinced, had to be a major inspiration for Ghostbusters. At one point Goofy even says “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.”
It also ends with the victorious ghost hunters covered with sticky white goo. I wonder if anyone has done a video mashup of the two films yet.
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We had this, on a cartridge – it came with the Fisher Price Movie Viewer (which, it seems, is still being made). We also had a Pink Panther cartoon.
Looks like they recycled some of the animation from Skeleton Dance, released in August 1929.
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Oh, that was definitely done.
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there are window displays in Disney’s california adventure’s downtown windows depicting scenes from this cartoon right now.
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