Moving Day (1936 film)
| Moving Day | |
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| Mickey Mouse series | |
Pete: "Ya ain't paid the rent!" (right)
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| Directed by | Ben Sharpsteen |
| Produced by |
Walt Disney John Sutherland |
| Voices by |
Billy Bletcher Pinto Colvig Walt Disney Clarence Nash |
| Music by | Albert Hay Malotte |
| Animation by | Paul Allen, Art Babbitt, Al Eugster, Wolfgang Reitherman, Fred Spencer, Don Towsley, Marvin Woodward, Cy Young |
| Studio | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Mickey's Rival |
| Followed by | Alpine Climbers |
Moving Day is a 1936 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The cartoon, set during the contemporary Great Depression, follows the antics of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy as they frantically pack their belongings after being dispossessed from their home. The film was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and includes the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey, Clarence Nash as Donald, Pinto Colvig as Goofy, and Billy Bletcher as Pete as the Sheriff.
Mickey and Donald are six months overdue on their rent payments for their home. Sheriff Pete bangs on the front door and punches Mickey in the face when he goes to answer. Pete gives them a "Notice to Dispossess" authorizing him not only to evict them, but to sell off their belongings as collateral. He furiously strikes a match on Donald's bill to light his cigar, throws it into his mouth and then leaving to put signs for cheap furniture.
As Donald and Mickey decide to move before Pete can sell all their belongings, Goofy, employed as an iceman, arrives with a delivery. Mickey and Donald decide to have him help with the relocation.
While Mickey struggles with an overloaded suitcase, Goofy attempts to load an upright piano onto the truck, but the piano keeps rolling out of the truck when he leaves it unattended or when he does not notice it. Goofy eventually discovers the piano to have a mind of its own after it runs over him like a car and battles it around the house. Meanwhile, Donald, in his haste to pack everything he sees, grabs a gas heater which is attached to a gas line in the wall. Seeing the leaking gas, he casually plugs it with a plunger, but the pressure in the line shoots the plunger out and it sticks to Donald's buttocks. He struggles to remove the plunger, but squeezes it so hard it flies upward like an airplane propeller and cuts through a lamp, making Donald hang from the wall and then once again get stuck in a fish tank.
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