| Orphan's Benefit | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Burt Gillett |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Walt Disney Florence Gill Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig |
| Music by | Frank Churchill |
| Animation by |
|
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
|
Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Orphan's Benefit (sic; original title) is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions in black-and-white. It was first released in 1934 and was later remade in Technicolor in 1941 under the corrected title Orphans' Benefit. The cartoon features Mickey Mouse and his friends putting on a vaudeville-style benefit show for a group of unruly orphans. It contains a number of firsts for Disney, including the first time in which Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck appear together, and was the 68th Mickey Mouse short film to be released, and the sixth of that year. It was also the cartoon which had the first story to be written that featured Donald Duck, though it was the second Donald Duck short to be produced and released, after The Wise Little Hen.[1]
Orphans' Benefit features original music composed by Frank Churchill. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey, Clarence Nash as Donald, and Florence Gill as Clara Cluck. The original cartoon was directed by Burt Gillett and distributed by United Artists while the remake was directed by Riley Thomson and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures.[3]
- ^ a b c Kaufman, J.B. (September 28, 2020). ""Orphans' Benefit" Revisited". Cartoon Research. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
- ^ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
- ^ Smith, Dave (1996). "Orphan's Benefit". Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York City: Hyperion. pp. https://archive.org/details/disneytozofficia00smit/page/374 374–375]. ISBN 0-7868-8149-6.