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Mickey's Steam Roller (1934)

★★½ — Mickey's Steam Roller (1934)

Mickey's Steam Roller is a 1934 Walt Disney Productions short, running just under seven minutes and directed by David Hand, one of Disney's key in-house directors during the studio's prolific short film period of the early-to-mid 1930s. Hand worked extensively across the studio's cartoon output before later taking a supervising role on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). The short features Mickey's twin nephews Morty and Ferdie, characters introduced in the Floyd Gottfredson newspaper comic strips and carried over into a handful of animated shorts during this era. Walt Disney himself voiced Mickey (as was standard at the time), with Marcellite Garner providing Minnie's voice, a role she held through most of the 1930s.

Another average Mickey short from the 30s. I'm starting to think the ones not actually directed by Walt Disney aren't as good.

Rating: ★★½ | Year: 1934 | Watched: 2025-09-06

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