Michael reviews films of 100 years old and older, roughly in chronological order.Ī similar blog featuring many stills and comic strips. THE site on classic animation research, hosted by cartoon historian Jerry Beck.įrank Beef analyzes classic cartoons. Topical blog on animation film, led by animation historian Amid Amidi.Īmid Amidi’s blog on modern design cartoon art from the forties, fifties and sixties. Kept until 2016.Īnimation historian Jerry Beck’s animation film news blog. Kept until 2011.Ī blog dedicated to background paintings from animation films. To the next Mickey Mouse cartoon: Mickey’s Gala PremierĪ great blog on Disney’s top animators, old and new. To the previous Mickey Mouse cartoon: The Mail Pilot Watch ‘Mickey’s Mechanical Man’ yourself and tell me what you think: Both films were inspired by rather hysterical stories about robots taking over jobs, which circulated in the early 1930s, and which struck a chord in an era of vast unemployment. ‘Mickey’s Mechanical Man’ is reminiscent of the Fleischer Studio’s equally weak ‘ The Robot‘ (1932). are the robot’s jerky movements, which are clearly mechanical and based on wind-up toys, but which become rather frantic and ridiculously elaborate when the robot goes wild. Nevertheless, there are some traces of Stan Laurel’s boxing moves from ‘Any Old Port’ (1932). Moreover, Mickey’s motives remain unclear and we’re not invited to care about the match. The cartoon is surprisingly low on gags and it’s difficult to sympathize with the robot character, as it’s mechanical after all, while the gorilla is a living being. From that point he actually cheats, using multiple boxing gloves, a hammer and hits below the belt.ĭespite its clear story and high quality animation, ‘Mickey’s Mechanical Man’ is a very weak short, and a low point in the otherwise outstanding Mickey Mouse year of 1933. But then Minnie fetches her car horn, revitalizing the robot. Luckily, this fact helps him in the end: when he’s clobbered by the gorilla (on the tune of Franz Liszt’s second Hungarian rhapsody), he seems almost lost. Mickey’s robot has one disadvantage: he runs wild when he hears Minnie’s car horn. Mickey has build a robot to fight a gorilla in a boxing match, which is called “the battle of the century: machine vs.
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