Get a Horse!

Get a Horse!
Title card of the short
Directed byLauren MacMullan[1]
Story byPaul Briggs
Nancy Kruse
Lauren MacMullan
Raymond S. Persi
Produced byDorothy McKim
Starring
Music byMark Watters
Animation byEric Goldberg (lead)
Adam Green (lead)
Layouts byAlfred "Tops" Cruz
Jean-Christophe Poulan
Color processColor
Black-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byWalt Disney Studios
Motion Pictures
Release dates
  • June 11, 2013 (2013-06-11) (Annecy)
  • November 27, 2013 (2013-11-27) (with Frozen)[2]
Running time
6 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Get a Horse! is a 2013 American animated comedy short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by Lauren MacMullan.[4] Combining black-and-white hand-drawn animation and color[5] computer animation, the short features the characters of the late 1920s Mickey Mouse cartoons.

The film features archival recordings of Walt Disney, Billy Bletcher and Marcellite Garner in their respective posthumous roles as Mickey Mouse, Peg Leg Pete and Minnie Mouse.[6] Russi Taylor and Will Ryan provide some of Minnie's and Pete's lines ("Goodbye, goodbye, little feller!" is an uncredited line of Mickey's by Jimmy MacDonald sourced from an archival recording.[5][7] Disney's voice is also heard as Minnie in one instance crying out "Help! Help! Help!", though he is uncredited in that role).

It is the first original Mickey Mouse theatrical animated short since Runaway Brain in 1995, and the first appearance of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in a Disney animated production in 85 years, albeit for a split second cameo.

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  3. ^ Hammond, Pete (September 2, 2013). "Telluride: 'Gravity' Dazzles Fest Audiences So How Is Mickey Mouse Stealing The Show?". Deadline. Retrieved September 3, 2013.
  4. ^ Bahr, Lindsey (August 9, 2013). "Disney Animation preview: Frozen, Big Hero 6, at Disney's D23, Plus Zootopia announced". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 9, 2013.
  5. ^ a b Breznican, Anthony (August 22, 2013). "Old-school Mickey Mouse gets future shock in Get a Horse! – First Look". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 22, 2013.
  6. ^ D23
  7. ^ Keegan, Rebecca (April 23, 2013). "Walt Disney Animation releases new Mickey Mouse short". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 28, 2013.