

The postcard was nothing super special, but boy, was Andy ecstatic! He was just so overjoyed that Mickey remembered him and sent him a letter! He also loved that the other ‘friends’ were on the postcard too. But on May 15th, almost a month later, we got a postcard in the mail! A month went by and I honestly completely forgot about it. We didn’t really know what to expect! I made sure to tell Andy that it might take a while, or he might not get a letter back because Mickey is a very busy Mouse after all. Then he decorated the letter with some of his favorite stickers! Letter from Mickey Mouse Below are the two letters that we sent.įirst off, don’t mind my handwriting! I have terrible handwriting so please excuse me for that. When I told my son that, he was over the moon! He could not wait to write (or, have me write while he dictates) a letter to Mickey! For good measure, we wrote a letter to Minnie Mouse too! He didn’t want her to feel left out. He battles rain and snow, but his biggest battle is against Pete, who has a plane equipped with a machine gun and a harpoon cannon. Synopsis: Mickey the mail pilot is entrusted with a chest of money. Original title: Walt Disneys Mickey Mouse: The Mail Pilot. The Disney Blues are real! That’s when I discovered that you can send letters to Mickey Mouse, and your child will get a letter back! The Mail Pilot (S) is a film directed by David Hand with Animation. I was determined to figure out a way to help my son feel better in between Disney visits. He truly gets very sad because he misses his ‘best friend’ so much! And since we live in Connecticut, we don’t make it to Disney nearly as often as we would both like. He thinks that they are best pals and misses him so much when we aren’t in Disney World. Mickey's plane quickly loses its wings and propeller to Pete's armaments, but he improvise. Retrieved February 19, 2021.Letter from Mickey Mouse: Do you have a child that is just as obsessed with Mickey Mouse as my son is? My son, who is 4 years old, is constantly talking about how Mickey is his friend. Mickey the mail pilot is entrusted with a chest of money. ^ "Mickey Mouse in Black & White Volume 2 DVD Review".^ "Opinions on Pictures: Sound Shorts".Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. The short was released on December 7, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume Two: 1929-1935.

As usual in this Disney series, the cartoon work is well thought out and intelligently and divertingly presented. The results is a music festival which proves genuinely amusing. Mickey and his relatives crash their way into the cat's home while the latter is hunting.

The Film Daily (July 28, 1929): "Amusing. They play everything from the piano, right down the line of musical instruments."

The cat a-hunting goes and the mice play while the cat's away. It is synchronized for sound, which brings the greater part of the laughs.
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Motion Picture News (June 8, 1929): "This is one of the series of the Mickey Mouse cartoons. Another one of those 1974 Buena Vista reissues of black and white Mickeys The Mail Pilot from 1933, scanned from a 16mm Eastman print (where the special int. In an early script, the cartoon ended with the pet parrot calling the police, causing the mice to scurry away. The cat signs his name "Tom Cat", which was briefly used as a name for the character who was shortly afterwards identified as Peg-Leg Pete. This is the last time Mickey is portrayed as the size of a mouse, although he remains fairly small in his next cartoon, The Barnyard Battle. The cartoon is a loose remake of Disney's 1925 film Alice Rattled by Rats, from the Alice Comedies series. In the end, Mickey and Minnie successfully kiss each other. Once inside, Mickey and Minnie play the piano by dancing on the keys and later, others play some of the cat's musical instruments and records (using themselves as the speaker and stylus). Plot Īfter Tom Cat leaves his house, drunk on hooch, Mickey organizes all his mice friends to break into the cat's house. In this cartoon, Mickey and Minnie are the size of regular mice, and Tom Cat is the size of a person. It was the sixth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the third of that year. It was directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks and Ben Sharpsteen. When the Cat's Away is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on May 3, 1929, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series.
