The Chain Gang (1930 film)
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The Chain Gang is a 1930 Mickey Mouse animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions for Columbia Pictures, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series.[1] It was the twenty-first Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the sixth of that year.[2] It is one of a group of shorts of strikingly uneven quality produced by Disney immediately after Ub Iwerks left the studio.[3]
The Chain Gang | |
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Directed by | Burt Gillett |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | Walt Disney Lee Millar |
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Color process | Black & White later colorized |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date | September 5, 1930 |
Running time | 7:57 |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The cartoon was primarily drawn by Norm Ferguson,[4] and featured a pair of bloodhounds, who helped to track down Mickey after his escape from prison. Although these dogs were not named, the style in which they were drawn makes them clear forerunners of Pluto, who first officially appeared a few months later in The Picnic.[5] The animation for one of the bloodhound scenes in The Chain Gang was recycled as Pluto in four later cartoons.[1] Additionally, a few scenes contain reused animation from the Oswald The Lucky Rabbit cartoon Sagebrush Sadie.