Plane Crazy

For the game, see Plane Crazy (computer game).

Plane Crazy
Mickey Mouse series
Minnie gives Mickey a horseshoe as a good luck charm before his flight
Directed by	Walt Disney Ub Iwerks
Produced by	Walt Disney
Story by	Walt Disney Ub Iwerks
Voices by	Walt Disney
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Ub Iwerks
Studio	Disney Brothers Studio
Distributed by	Celebrity Productions
Release date(s)	March 17, 1929 (1929-03-17)
Color process	Black and white, redrawn colorized (TV)
Running time	6 minutes (one reel)
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	The Barn Dance
Followed by	The Opry House

Plane Crazy is an American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The cartoon, released in 1929 by the Walt Disney Studios, was the first creation of the character Mickey Mouse. It was made as a silent film and given a test screening to a theater audience on May 15, 1928, but failed to pick up a distributor. Later that year, Disney released Mickey's first sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie, which was an enormous success. Following this, Plane Crazy was released as a sound cartoon on March 17, 1929. It was the fourth Mickey film to be released after Steamboat Willie, The Gallopin' Gaucho, and The Barn Dance (1928).

Synopsis

Mickey is trying to fly an airplane to imitate Charles Lindbergh. After building his own airplane, he does a flight simulation to ensure that the plane is safe for flight but the flight fails, destroying the plane. Using a roadster and remains of his plane to create another plane, he asks a young mouse girl, Minnie to join him for its first flight after she presents him with a horseshoe for good luck. They take an out-of-control flight with exaggerated, impossible situations. A cow briefly "rides" the aircraft. This is Clarabelle Cow making her first appearance, though the cow is actually an early, more "cowlike" predecessor of Clarabelle named Carolyn. Mickey even uses a turkey's tail to use as a tail for his plane. Once he regains control of the plane, he repeatedly tries to kiss Minnie. When she refuses, he uses force: he breaks her concentration and terrifies her by throwing her out of the airplane, catching her with the airplane, and he uses this to kiss her. Minnie then parachutes out of the plane using her bloomers. While distracted by her, Mickey loses control of the plane and eventually crashes into a tree. Minnie then lands, and Mickey laughs at her. Minnie then storms off, rebuffing him. Mickey then angrily throws the good luck horseshoe given to him by Minnie and it boomerangs around a tree, hitting him and ringing around his neck; this causes stars to fly out toward the screen, with one of the stars filling the screen up, ending the film.^[1]

Production

The short was co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. Iwerks was also the sole animator for this short and spent just two weeks working (at a rate of over 700 drawings a day to finish it) on it. The sound version contained a soundtrack by Carl W. Stalling.^[2]

This was the first animated film to use a camera move. The POV shot from the plane made it appear as if the camera was tracking into the ground. In fact, when they shot this scene, they piled books under the spinning background to move the artwork closer to the camera.

Characters

Mickey Mouse is portrayed in Plane Crazy as mischievous, amorous, and has often been described as a rogue, much like Disney's own Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and it has been speculated that the cartoon started production as an Oswald entry.

DVD release

Plane Crazy (as well as Steamboat Willie) has been released as part of the Walt Disney Treasures DVD collections twice:

On disc one of Mickey Mouse in Black and White
On disc two of The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, as part of a tribute to animator Ub Iwerks

Legacy

Mickey flying the "Toonplane" in Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

In 1930 the story of Plane Crazy was adapted and used for the first story in the newspaper comic strip Mickey Mouse. This adaptation, entitled "Lost on a Desert Island," was written by Walt Disney with art by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith.^[3]
In the Mickey Mouse short The Nifty Nineties (1941), Mickey and Minnie's car runs out of control and runs into a cow. The scene was taken almost directly from Plane Crazy.
The cartoon "Mickey's Airplane Kit" (1999) from the series Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse featured a similar premise in which Mickey built his own airplane to impress Minnie.
In the television series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006–present), Mickey regularly flies the plane from Plane Crazy which he calls the "Toonplane."
In Porco Rosso, in a theater in Milan, Porco watches a movie which has references to vintage cartoons.
In the feature film Walt Before Mickey, the subject of how Plane Crazy was created is profiled.
Plane Crazy plays in a continuous loop in the Main Street Cinema at Disneyland, albeit silently, next to Steamboat Willie.

References

↑ www.weirdspace.dk
↑ "1928: Plane Crazy". Disney Shorts. Retrieved October 18, 2012.
↑ "Lost on a Desert Island" at INDUCKS

External links

Plane Crazy on YouTube (official posting by Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Plane Crazy at Mickey Mouse Follies: Black and White
Plane Crazy at The Big Cartoon DataBase
Plane Crazy at the Internet Movie Database
Plane Crazy at ; The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts

Mickey Mouse in animation

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Feature films	Fantasia Fun and Fancy Free Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas Fantasia 2000 Mickey's Magical Christmas Mickey's House of Villains Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

TV series	The Mickey Mouse Club The Mouse Factory Good Morning, Mickey! Mickey's Mouse Tracks Mickey Mouse and Friends Mickey Mouse Works Disney's House of Mouse Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Mickey Mouse Mickey and the Roadster Racers

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