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Plight of the Bumble Bee (Mickey Mouse 'Lost' Short)
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:55 pm
by Sotiris
It was on YouTube a while back but got deleted. Thankfully I've found it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM-7UGmDlEA
Enjoy!
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:56 am
by Dr Frankenollie
Wow, thanks Sotiris!
I've been looking for this for ages. I wish it had been completed; the unfinished animation looks great already! I particularly loved the ending and the alternate approach to Mickey.
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:30 am
by Sotiris
Dr Frankenollie wrote:Wow, thanks Sotiris!
No problem!
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:38 am
by Will Barks
Thanks for posting! From when is this Fragment?
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:42 am
by Sotiris
Will Barks wrote:From when is this fragment?
It's not a fragment but a complete short on its own albeit unfinished directed by Jack Kinney in 1951.
Here are some storyboards, a model sheet and more info on this short:
http://disneybooks.blogspot.com/2007/01 ... re-is.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87388/Storybo ... -Bumblebee
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:27 am
by Mickeyfan1990
Thanks for the re-upload!
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 11:48 am
by Sotiris
Mickeyfan1990 wrote:Thanks for the re-upload!
No problem! But I didn't re-upload it myself, I just found the video.
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:19 pm
by milojthatch
Great find, I'm sad this was not part of the "Disney Treasures."
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:29 pm
by TsWade2
Awesome. They should of use that as a next animated short, with a little re-write that doesn't involve being drunk.
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 4:28 pm
by Sotiris
I've updated the first post with a working video.
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 10:46 pm
by Big Disney Fan
That looks like how Mickey looked in such cartoons as "Plutopia" or even in "The Simple Things". Around that same time period.
Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 10:23 pm
by Maerj
...and since its a streaming video, when you play it, a copy is made in your cache. That .flv file then can be saved onto a shiny disc-like format in order to watch it on your television. If you don't know how a quick google search on 'how to download streaming video' will help you. Enjoy!
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:18 am
by Sky Syndrome
What a cute short! It made me think of the book The Cricket in Times Square. Chester Cricket performed concerts to give his human friend Mario's family's newstand publicity and his mouse friend Tucker appointed himself as Chester's manager. I was thinking of this before Mickey encountered the cricket making music at the end and wanted to do show business with it.
Also these people and chairs:
made me think of
these people and chairs:
from
The Whale Who Sang at the Met from
Make Mine Music (1946)
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 3:13 am
by Sotiris
Sky Syndrome wrote:Also these people and chairs made me think of the people and chairs from 'The Whale Who Sang at the Met' from Make Mine Music (1946)
Great observation!
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 8:47 am
by Big Disney Fan
Sotiris wrote:Sky Syndrome wrote:Also these people and chairs made me think of the people and chairs from 'The Whale Who Sang at the Met' from Make Mine Music (1946)
Great observation!
Yeah, a lot of the opera scene does remind me of an identical scene in the Willie the Whale scene of "Make Mine Music".
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:04 am
by Disney Duster
TsWade2 wrote:Awesome. They should of use that as a next animated short, with a little re-write that doesn't involve being drunk.
You know he's not really drunk, right? No kids will get that its a reference to that. It's just a bee acting silly on flower nectar. What makes no sense though is that the narrator says he was allergic to flowers. Isn't it extremely obvious that the bee is exactly the opposite of allergic to flowers?!
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:32 am
by Semaj
Disney Duster wrote:TsWade2 wrote:Awesome. They should of use that as a next animated short, with a little re-write that doesn't involve being drunk.
You know he's not really drunk, right? No kids will get that its a reference to that. It's just a bee acting silly on flower nectar. What makes no sense though is that the narrator says he was allergic to flowers. Isn't it extremely obvious that the bee is exactly the opposite of allergic to flowers?!
His reaction was mimicking that of an alcoholic. That was the joke. The old shorts made references to alcoholism all the time, regardless of whether the kids would "get it".
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:40 pm
by Disney Duster
Semaj wrote:His reaction was mimicking that of an alcoholic. That was the joke. The old shorts made references to alcoholism all the time, regardless of whether the kids would "get it".
Oh don't worry I knew that part, I was just pointing out he wasn't really drunk.
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:51 pm
by Big Disney Fan
Semaj wrote:His reaction was mimicking that of an alcoholic. That was the joke. The old shorts made references to alcoholism all the time, regardless of whether the kids would "get it".
Like in "How To Be a Detective" when Goofy downs a martini with a goofball in it.
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 4:55 pm
by musicradio77
Never seen this one before, this was a cartoon that it was never made. It has been kept in the Disney Vault for decades, but then they and found an existing copy of the unfinished Mickey Mouse short. This is considered an abandoned concept. I hope Disney will do a new Mickey Mouse short that has been surfaced since "Destino" where Walt and Savador Dolly did together. Let's hope if it's going to be hand drawn 2D animation, not the CG one.Disney has been doing hand drawn since "Winnie the Pooh" last year.