Mickey's Fire Brigade

Mickey's Fire Brigade
Mickey Mouse series
"Help! Help! Kidnappers!"
Directed by	Ben Sharpsteen
Produced by	Walt Disney
Voices by	Elvia Allman Pinto Colvig Walt Disney Clarence Nash
Music by	Bert Lewis
Animation by	Paul Allen Milt Kahl (inbetweening) Grim Natwick Fred Spencer Bill Tytla Cy Young
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	August 3, 1935 (1935-08-03) (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	8 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Mickey's Garden
Followed by	Pluto's Judgement Day

Mickey's Fire Brigade is a 1935 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The cartoon stars Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy employed as firefighters responding to a hotel fire. It was directed by Ben Sharpsteen and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey, Clarence Nash as Donald, Pinto Colvig as Goofy, and Elvia Allman as Clarabelle Cow.^[1]

Plot

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy are firefighters responding to a hotel fire. Mickey drives a contemporary style hook-and-ladder fire truck, Donald is standing on the stack a ladders on the truck calling out "Fire! Fire! Fire!", while Goofy is steering the rear of the truck.

The three fire fighters arrive at the hotel and go to work. The film is filled with gags which show the trio to be inept fireman, and the fire and smoke to have a mind of its own.

Finally Mickey realizes that there is a woman upstairs who needs to be saved. They find Clarabelle Cow locked in the bathroom taking a bath and singing to herself, still unaware that the hotel is on fire. After Goofy unsuccessfully warns her through the transom, Mickey and Donald break the door down using Goofy as a battering ram. Clarabelle is alarmed and thinks that Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are kidnappers. As Clarabelle is screaming for the police and assaulting them with her scrub brush, the three firefighters lift her bathtub, with Clarabelle still in it, and shove it out the window.

Clarabelle sails through the air in her tub, and slides down a ladder to the ground. The three firefighters then land in the bathtub. The film ends with Clarabelle continuously beating them with her brush.

Releases

• 1935 – Original theatrical release
• 1943 – The Fireman (8mm)^[2]
• 1984 – "Mickey's Crazy Careers" (VHS)
• 1992 – "Fun on the Job" (VHS)
• 1998 – Ink & Paint Club, episode #1.59 "Clarabelle and Horace" (TV)
• 2001 – "Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color" (DVD)

Notes

1. ^ Mickey's Fire Brigade at the Internet Movie Database
2. ^ Popular Science, October 1943

External links

• Mickey's Fire Brigade at the Internet Movie Database
• Mickey's Fire Brigade at The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts
• Mickey's Fire Brigade at the Disney Film Project