Lend a Paw

Lend a Paw
Theatrical release poster
Directed byClyde Geronimi
Assisted by:
Don A. Duckwall (uncredited)
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringTeddy Barr
Walt Disney
John Dehner
John McLeish
Marcellite Garner
Music byLeigh Harline
Animation byUncredited character animation:
George Nicholas
Kenneth Muse
Nick Nichols
William Sturm
Eric Gurney
Norman Tate
Chick Otterstrom
Morey Reden
Emery Hawkins
Layouts byUncredited:
Bruce Bushman
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • October 3, 1941 (1941-10-03)
[1]
Running time
8:12
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Lend a Paw is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and released to theaters on October 3, 1941. Lend a Paw was directed by Clyde Geronimi and features original music by Leigh Harline. George Nicholas, Kenneth Muse, Nick Nichols, William Sturm, Eric Gurney, Norman Tate, Chick Otterstrom, Morey Reden, and Emery Hawkins animated the film. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey and Teddy Barr as Pluto.[2] It was the 115th short in the Mickey Mouse film series to be released, and the sixth for that year.[3]

In the cartoon, which was largely a remake of the 1933 short Mickey's Pal Pluto, Pluto saves the life of a kitten, and later feels jealous towards the kitten after Mickey Mouse takes the kitten in. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 14th Academy Awards in 1942, the only Mickey Mouse short to win the award.

  1. ^ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
  2. ^ "Lend A Paw". www.bcdb.com
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 107–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.