Building a Building

Building a Building
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDavid Hand
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringPinto Colvig
Walt Disney
Marcellite Garner
Animation byJohnny Cannon
Les Clark
Frenchy Detremaudan
Clyde Geronimi
Dick Lundy
Tom Palmer
Ben Sharpsteen[1]
Color processBlack-and-white
Redrawn colorized (TV)
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • January 7, 1933 (1933-01-07)
[2]
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Building a Building is a 1933 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Production and released by United Artists. A remake of the 1928 Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film Sky Scrappers, the cartoon depicts Mickey Mouse working at a construction site under the supervision of Peg-Leg Pete while Minnie Mouse is selling box lunches to the workers. It was directed by David Hand, his first directorial assignment at Disney,[3] and features the voices of Walt Disney as Mickey, Marcellite Garner as Minnie, and Pinto Colvig as Pete.[1] It was the 51st Mickey Mouse short film, and the first of that year.[4]

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 6th Academy Awards, but lost to Disney's own Three Little Pigs.[5] This was the second Mickey Mouse cartoon nominated for an Oscar.[6]

  1. ^ a b Building a Building Archived August 23, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts
  2. ^ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
  3. ^ Baloney and Maracroni and a Huckleberry Pie at 2719 Hyperion
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  5. ^ "1933 Oscars - Academy Awards - Winners and Nominees". Pop Culture Madness. Archived from the original on June 7, 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2009.
  6. ^ "Building A Building". BCDB. November 16, 2011. Archived from the original on February 15, 2013.