Lonesome Ghosts | |
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Directed by | Burt Gillett |
Story by | Dick Friel |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | Walt Disney Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig Billy Bletcher Don Brodie Jack Bergman Harry Stanton |
Music by | Albert Hay Malotte |
Animation by | Character animation: Art Babbitt Rex Cox Clyde Geronimi Dick Huemer Milt Kahl Isadore Klein Ed Love Bob Wickersham Dick Williams Marvin Woodward (all uncredited) Additional character animation: Don Williams (uncredited) |
Color process | Technicolor |
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Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Lonesome Ghosts is a 1937 Disney animated cartoon, released through RKO Radio Pictures on Christmas Eve. It was directed by Burt Gillett and animated by Izzy (Isadore) Klein, Ed Love, Milt Kahl, Marvin Woodward, Bob Wickersham, Clyde Geronimi, Dick Huemer, Dick Williams, Art Babbitt, and Rex Cox. [2] In the cartoon, four ghosts named Jasper, Grubb, Boo, and Moss are bored because they have scared away all of the inhabitants of their home, the Old McShiver mansion. The ghosts decide to hire Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy, who are ghost exterminators, in order to prank them. It was the 98th short in the Mickey Mouse film series to be released, and the ninth for that year. [3] This short marked the first use of one of Goofy's catchphrases, "Somethin' wrong here!".
Four ghosts named Jasper, Boo, Moss and Grubb are alone inside their home, the Old McShiver mansion. Jasper and Boo complain about how there is no one remaining inside the mansion to scare. Moss finds an advertisement in a newspaper for the Ajax Ghost Exterminators whose members consist of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. The ghosts decide to hire Mickey, Donald and Goofy in order to prank them. The ghosts call them with Grubb impersonating a woman, claiming that the mansion is haunted.
When they arrive at the mansion, Mickey knocks on the front door but no one opens it. He knocks on it again, causing it to fall down. He announces their arrival but they discover that there is no one inside the mansion. The door lifts up and throws them inside before putting itself back in place, making a mousetrap fall shut on Goofy's nose. After hearing laughter from the ghosts, Mickey decides that he, Donald and Goofy should split up in order to surround them.
Jasper knocks Mickey on the head and puts his fingers in Mickey’s shotgun’s barrels, causing it to explode. Mickey chases Jasper upstairs in frustration and tries to open a door that he disappears into which falls down. All of the ghosts, forming a marching band, come out of the door and go into another door. Mickey opens the door, which causes water to pour out. Jasper, Boo and Moss surf on surfboards while Grubb drives a motorboat that goes in a circle around Mickey until he and the water disappear.
Grubb scares Donald with the sounds of breaking dishes and rattling chains and whacks Donald in the butt with a wooden board twice. Donald punches him, causing him to fall onto the floor. He transforms into water and disappears. Grubb comes out of the floor and spits water at Donald’s face before disappearing again. Donald becomes soaked with water when he puts his hat back on.
Moss scares Goofy by banging a wooden spoon on a pan and playing a trombone, causing Goofy to run into a bedroom. When Moss kicks him in the butt, he chases Moss into a dresser. He sees Moss inside the mirror instead of his reflection. After a mirror gag, Moss punches him in the face. He becomes tangled inside the dresser and stabs his butt with a pin, thinking that his pants are Moss.
The ghosts shove the dresser with Goofy still inside into the basement where Mickey and Donald are. Mickey and Donald take cover behind barrels and bags of molasses, flour and syrup that the dresser crashes into, causing the three to be covered in molasses, flour and syrup. This makes them look like ghosts which scares the actual ghosts out of the mansion.
The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color . [5]
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