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Barnyard Olympics (1932)

★★★ — Barnyard Olympics (1932)

Barnyard Olympics is a Mickey Mouse short produced by Walt Disney Productions and released in April 1932, during what was already a remarkably productive early period for the studio. Directed by Wilfred Jackson, one of Disney's most reliable short-film hands of the era (he would go on to direct sequences in Snow White and Fantasia later that decade), the film arrives at a moment when the Mickey Mouse series was at its commercial and creative peak, with new shorts appearing almost every fortnight. The 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles lent the subject some topical currency, and the film follows the familiar Mickey-versus-Pete rivalry that anchored many of the studio's most popular entries from this period.

1929 animation from Walt Disney. Watched this with my 7 year old son. He found it hilarious. I must admit this is one of the funnier shorts from this time period.

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 1932 | Watched: 2025-09-06

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