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Though
it might have been shown in a couple of panels,
the strips omits the near misses with cars coming the opposite way (a
very nice point of view sequence in the film).
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In the first cartoon
shorts, Mickey Mouse was quite mischievous and even liabel to resort to
a little dirty trick, as in this scene, where he wants to kiss Minnie;
when she refuses, he tries to scare her into kissing him by making a looping,
making her fall out of the plane, catching her, and kissing her.
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Mickey tried to catch Minnie before she jumped, and now walks back in the air toward the plane; he can barely reach the tail, and the plane crashes.
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Minnie lands softly beside him, but he pokes fun at her and the horseshoe she had given him for luck before he invited her aboard the plane. As she turns her back on him, he throws away the horseshoe-- which, naturally, boomerangs back to him.
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The short ends on a defeated Mickey: his plane crashed, his girlfriend walked out, and he was hit by the horseshoe.
In the strip, however, Minnie's accidental fall ends the Plane Crazy plot: Mickey keeps flying, but gets lost. Bridging
both continuities (but possibly also part of Castaway's plot--
I have never seen it), the strip of January 23 shows the plane falling
part, marking the end of the Plane Crazy sequence and leaving
Mickey stranded, "Lost on a Desert Island". |
Bibliography:
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Color-- 1930s Disney Comic Strip Classics;
Another Rainbow, 1988; articles by Geoffrey Blum & Thomas Andrae, and interview
with Floyd Gottfredson by Disney Studio archivist David R. Smith
The Hand Behind the Mouse-- An intimate biography of Ub Iwerks, the man Walt
Disney called "the greatest animator in the world"; Leslie Iwerks
& John Kenworthy; Disney Editions, 2001
Mickey; Pierre Lambert, Démons & Merveilles, 1998
( to p 1 / back to notes )