Uncle Walt (film)

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Uncle Walt
Directed by Robert Swarthe
Production
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Release date
  • 1964 (1964)
Running time
7:33
Country United States

Uncle Walt is a 1964 animated short by Robert Swarthe. [1] [2]

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Summary

Scenes from this satirical student short includes a graveyard for numerous "Perris" (a reference to the 1957 live-action feature Perri ; with music from Bambi playing), pictures of Walt Disney in various ages (with music from Sleeping Beauty , Steamboat Willie and Alice in Wonderland playing), Mickey and Minnie playing music alongside racial caricatures and outhouse gags, the female centaurettes from Fantasia as sex workers in the red district with Goofy as their pimp, bunny viewers in a movie theater watching The Wicked Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves transitioned into an old hag (alongside clips from Mickey's Gala Premiere , The Skeleton Dance and Gulliver Mickey ) and Mickey in a "Mouse-ka-mausoleum" on a glass coffin (similar to the one featured in Snow White). [3] [4] [5]

Rediscovery

Made while as a student at UCLA, the film's only showing was at the 1972 American Film Institute program "50 Years of American Animation". [5] It is preserved by the Academy Film Archive as part of his output. [6] In 2024, Thunderbean Animation was planning to put the film on a Blu-ray set titled "Public Domain Mouse Adventures" that also included the first three Mickey Mouse cartoons that entered into the public domain, but Swarthe prevented the release by threatening to sue which resulted in being withdrawn. Two 16mm prints of the film surfaced on eBay with YouTube user Unckie PNC obtaining and uploading one of them online. [5]

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