| Alpine Climbers | |
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| Directed by | David Hand |
| Written by | Vernon Stallings |
| Story by | Homer Brightman |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Walt Disney Clarence Nash Lee Millar |
| Music by | Albert Hay Malotte |
| Animation by | Carl Barks Bill Roberts[1] Norm Ferguson[2] Dick Huemer |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Alpine Climbers is a 1936 American animatedshort film produced byWalt Disney Productions and released byUnited Artists. The cartoon followsMickey Mouse,Donald Duck, andPlutoclimb the side of a mountain. The film was directed byDavid Hand and includes the voices ofWalt Disney as Mickey,Clarence Nash as Donald, and Lee Millar as Pluto. It was the 9th Mickey Mouse short to be released that year. As a work published in 1936 and a proper renewal notice filed within 28 years, the short will enter the American public domain in 2032.[4][a]
Up in the Swiss Alps, Mickey Mouse tangles with a mother eagle, Donald Duck scraps with an edelweiss-stealing goat and Pluto gets inebriated with a St. Bernard.
This is the only known Disney cartoon to feature animation byCarl Barks, an American cartoonist later known for hisDonald Duck comics.[6] One scene involving an Eagle flying was reworked with Walt Disney's input after he suggested the Eagle looked too human.[7]
The short was released on December 4, 2001 onWalt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color.[8]
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