The Whoopee Party

The Whoopee Party
The Whoopee Party
Directed by	Wilfred Jackson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Walt Disney; Marcellite Garner; Pinto Colvig
Music by	Maude Nugent
Animation by	David Hand
Color process	Black and white
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September 17, 1932;
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Whoopee Party is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on September 17, 1932. It was the 46th Mickey Mouse short, and the tenth of that year.^[2]

Plot

Mickey Mouse and friends have a party in which Minnie Mouse is playing the piano while Mickey, Goofy (then Dippy Dawg), and Horace Horsecollar are preparing some snacks. Characters at the party start off dancing rather sedately to music in the style of 1900, until the food and beverages come out. They eat and drink, then dance more wildly. The music is a hot jazzy version of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag", followed by "Some of These Days" and "Runnin' Wild". Inanimate objects around the house start dancing as well. A van full of police drive up to the party with siren blaring and storm the house, but rather than shutting the party down they join in the wild dancing. At the end Mickey and Minnie yell "Whoopee!"

Production

The scene of Mickey dancing with Patricia Pigg was lifted from the 1930 short The Shindig.^[1]

Reception

This short appeared on an episode of Disney's House of Mouse, titled "Dennis the Duck".
In The Disney Films, critic Leonard Maltin says: "There is an incredible amount of action on the screen; an opening shot shows a score of couples dancing to the music. Later, when the party starts to jump, every single inch of picture is filled with dancing figures. What is more, nothing is out of bounds for joining the fun: a pair of shirts on the ironing board are as likely to get up and dance as any of the animals at the party".^[3]

Voice cast

Mickey Mouse: Walt Disney
Minnie Mouse: Marcellite Garner
Goofy: Pinto Colvig
Horace Horsecollar: Hubert Dobbs

Home media

The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
^ Maltin, Leonard (1984). The Disney Films (2nd ed.). Crown Publishers. p. 291. ISBN 0-517-55407-0. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
^ "Mickey Mouse in Black and White DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved February 19, 2021.

External links

The Whoopee Party at IMDb

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[ultimate-1] Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

[3] Maltin, Leonard (1984). The Disney Films (2nd ed.). Crown Publishers. p. 291. ISBN 0-517-55407-0. Retrieved February 15, 2020.

[4] "Mickey Mouse in Black and White DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved February 19, 2021.

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