Day 10: Ride, Ichabod, Ride!
For many, Bing Crosby is synonymous with Christmas, with White Christmas and Holiday Inn being Christmas-time American classics. I fell in love with Bing Crosby’s voice in this film, Walt Disney’s 11th animated classic The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.
Day 9: Doctor, Doctor…
Some of the early Mickey Mouse shorts were completely unknown to me and Darling. It appears that sometimes, some things should remain unknown. Today’s short is one of them.
Day 7: House Party!
A year after the iconic Silly Symphony, “The Skeleton Dance” was released to the public, Mickey Mouse made his first theatrical debut within the “horror” genre in the 1929 short “Mickey Mouse in The Haunted House.”
Day 6: Ghoulfy?
In Season 1 of Mickey Mouse there are a number of interesting shorts that try to place Mickey in differing locations than middle-America. Episode 10, “Ghoul Fiend” does it exactly that, places Mickey Mouse in a location that you would not normally find him, a desolate and desiccating forest where an terror waits.
Day 5: Scary Mouse!
In 1995, Jim’s father, took Jim to see A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, little did Jim’s father know but he would be introducing Jim to one of the creepiest Mickey Mouse shorts that he had ever seen.
Day 4: Baked in a Pie…
When both of our children were younger, they loved Mickey Mouse, specifically Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. So, when Darling and I watched the 2017 “The Scariest Story Ever: a Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular”, we were unprepared.
Day 3: Toe tappin’
In 1952, the Walt Disney company produced and released a theatrical short that, I believe, inspired generations of Americans, and others around the world that enjoy Americana, what it means to Trick and Treat. Disney’s “Trick or Treat” is a theatrical short that brings joy to my heart whenever I watch it.
Day 2: Who Ya Gonna Call?
In College, Darling and I took a Disney and Film class and some of the early Mickey Mouse shorts were featured to show how Mickey has changed throughout the years. That was the first time I had watched this short, the 1937 Mickey Mouse feature, “The Lonesome Ghosts.
Day 1: Them Bones
When I was four, my mother would take me to the local Carnegie Library to pick out a book that she would read to me and to participate in the children’s programs.