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Mickey Mouse series | |
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Directed by | Clyde Geronimi |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Voices by |
Pinto Colvig Walt Disney |
Music by | Leigh Harline |
Animation by | George Nicholas Kenneth Muse Nick Nichols Bill Sturm Eric Gurney Norman Tate Chick Otterstrom Morey Reden Emery Hawkins |
Studio | Walt Disney Productions |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Color process | Technicolor |
Running time | 8:12 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Preceded by | Orphans' Benefit |
Followed by | Mickey's Birthday Party |
Lend a Paw is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and released to theaters on October 3, 1941. Lend a Paw was directed by Clyde Geronimi and features original music by Leigh Harline. George Nicholas, Kenneth Muse, Nick Nichols, Bill Sturm, Eric Gurney, Norman Tate, Chick Otterstrom, Morey Reden, and Emery Hawkins animated the film. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey and Pinto Colvig as Pluto.
In the cartoon, which was largely a remake of Disney's 1933 film Mickey's Pal Pluto, Pluto saves the life of a kitten, and later feels jealous towards the kitten after Mickey Mouse takes the kitten in. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 14th Academy Awards in 1942.