Three Blind Mouseketeers
Three Blind Mouseketeers is a Silly Symphonies cartoon based on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice and the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Directed by Dave Hand and Jack Cutting, it stars Billy Bletcher.[1]
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Produced by | Walt Disney |
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Music by | Albert Hay Malotte |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Plot
The Three Blind Mice are musketeers that live in a cellar. Captain Katt (the devious cat) sets a number of traps for them and goes to sleep. Then the musketeers come out to search for food evading all the clutches. The cat eventually wakes up and begins chasing them, but, thanks to their teamwork, they will win.
Voice cast
- Tall Mouseketeer: Pinto Colvig
- Captain Katt: Billy Bletcher
- Other two Mouseketeers: unknown[2]
Syndication
The cartoon was aired on Good Morning, Mickey! on the Disney Channel.
Home media
The short has been released on home video several times. The first was a VHS release in 1985 on Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: The Disney Dream Factory: 1933-1938, then in the UK on VHS on Storybook Favourites Shorts: Three Little Pigs.
Its first DVD was released was in 2003 on The Rescuers, followed in 2006 on More Silly Symphonies.[1] It was also released on Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 2: Three Little Pigs in 2009 and on The Rescuers 35th Anniversary Edition (The Rescuers/The Rescuers Down Under) in 2012.
References
- Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.
- Hischak, Thomas S. (2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company. p. 262. ISBN 978-0786462711. Retrieved 15 February 2020.