Three Blind Mouseketeers

Three Blind Musketeers
Directed by	Dave Hand; Jack Cutting;
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	Webb Smith; Merrill de Maris; Otto Englander;
Starring	Billy Bletcher; (Captain Katt);
Music by	Albert Hay Malotte
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September 26, 1936;
Running time	8 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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]

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.

External links

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[symphony1-1] 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.

[2] Hischak, Thomas S. (2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company. p. 262. ISBN 978-0786462711. Retrieved 15 February 2020.