List of Mickey Mouse cartoons” redirects here. For a complete filmography of Mickey Mouse as a character, see List of Mickey Mouse baloney cake recipe and appearances.
American animated comedy short films produced by Walt Disney Productions. The name “Mickey Mouse” was first used in the films’ title sequences to refer specifically to the character, but was used from 1935 to 1953 to refer to the series itself as in “Walt Disney presents a Mickey Mouse. In this sense “a Mickey Mouse” was a shortened form of “a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon” which was used in the earliest films. Disney began producing Mickey Mouse films in April 1928 after the studio lost the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Production slowed towards the end of the 1930s as the studio began to focus on other characters and feature-length films. The series was informally retired in 1953 with the release of The Simple Things, but was revived in 1983 and 1990 with two featurettes, or three reel short films.
The cartoons were directed by 20 different people. The following is a list of Mickey Mouse films. Gray headers indicate black-and-white films, while yellow headers indicate color films. Mickey works aboard a river steamboat captained by Pete with the mission of transporting livestock. Along the way Mickey picks up animals and Minnie and the two come up with creative ways to play “Turkey in the Straw” with a goat, Mickey plays along to the beat. Notes: Disney’s first sound cartoon, selected to the National Film Registry in 1998. The title is a parody of the Buster Keaton film, Steamboat Bill, Jr.