Motor Mania

For the unrelated video game, see Motor Mania (video game).

Motor Mania
Poster
Directed by	Jack Kinney
Story by	Dick Kinney Milt Schaffer
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Bob Jackman John McLeish
Music by	Paul J. Smith
Animation by	John Sibley Charles Nichols Ed Aardal Jack Boyd
Layouts by	Al Zinnen
Backgrounds by	Claude Coats
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	June 30, 1950 (1950-06-30)
Running time	7 minutes (one reel)
Country	United States
Language	English

Motor Mania is a cartoon released by Walt Disney Productions on June 30, 1950. ^[1] In this short, Goofy is a Mr. Hyde-type split personality, who gets behind the wheel and shows the dangers of not driving safely. ^[2]

Plot

The cartoon shows how the character, as the pleasant, friendly, and good-natured "Mr. Walker" who "wouldn't hurt a fly nor step on an ant", undergoes a Jekyll-and-Hyde-like change in personality to the violent "Mr. Wheeler, motorist" when he gets behind the wheel of his yellow car. As Mr. Walker, pedestrian, he's polite, safe, and good-natured while as Mr. Wheeler; he is very mean, reckless, and predatory. Upon reaching his destination in town (he apparently only wanted to buy a newspaper) and leaving his automobile, he reverts to the mild-mannered Mr. Walker, whereupon he is the victim of other motorists' unsafe (and sometimes even predatory) driving habits. However, once he returns to his car, he becomes Mr. Wheeler, motorist, again, seeking to impose his own will upon traffic, to the point of blaming the tow truck which hauls him away for his slow pace after his own auto accident, and breaks the fourth wall by telling the narrator, "Ah, shut up!"

Home media

The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy . ^[3]

Voice cast

• Mr. Walker/Mr. Wheeler: Bob Jackman
• Narrator: John McLeish

References

1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 86–87. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
2. Maltin, Leonard (1984). The Disney Films (2nd ed.). Crown Publishers. p.  312. ISBN   0-517-55407-0 . Retrieved February 16, 2020.
3. "The Complete Goofy DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved February 20, 2021.