| The Haunted House | |
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| Directed by | Walt Disney |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Walt Disney |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Ub Iwerks |
| Color process | Black-and-white |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Celebrity Productions |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Haunted House, also known as Haunted House, is a 1929 Mickey Mouse short animated film released by Celebrity Productions, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series.[2] The cartoon was produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Celebrity Productions. It was the fourteenth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the eleventh of that year.[3]
The film has a comedy horror theme. It follows Mickey Mouse who is trapped in a haunted house and forced to play music. It was directed by Walt Disney who also provided the voice of Mickey; Ub Iwerks was the primary animator and Carl Stalling wrote the original music.
The Haunted House borrows animation from Disney's first Silly Symphony cartoon, The Skeleton Dance, which was released earlier in 1929, although most of the sequence is new.[2] The Haunted House was Mickey's first cartoon with a horror theme and led the way to later films such as The Gorilla Mystery (1930) and The Mad Doctor (1933).[2] Disney had some trouble with the state censors over this cartoon, because of the gags involving a chamber pot and an outhouse.[1]
- ^ a b Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. p. 46. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
- ^ a b c Grob, Gijs (2018). "The Haunted House". Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse. Theme Park Press. ISBN 978-1683901235.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.