| Moving Day | |
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| Directed by | Ben Sharpsteen |
| Produced by | Walt Disney John Sutherland |
| Starring | Walt Disney Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig Billy Bletcher |
| Music by | Albert Hay Malotte |
| Animation by | Paul Allen Art Babbitt Al Eugster Wolfgang Reitherman Fred Spencer Don Towsley Marvin Woodward Cy Young |
| Color process | Technicolor |
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 9:26 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Moving Day is a 1936 American animatedshort film produced byWalt Disney Productions and released byUnited Artists.[2] The cartoon, set during the contemporaryGreat Depression, follows the antics ofMickey Mouse,Donald Duck, andGoofy as they frantically pack their belongings after beingdispossessed from their home. The film was directed byBen Sharpsteen and includes the voices ofWalt Disney as Mickey,Clarence Nash as Donald,Pinto Colvig as Goofy, andBilly Bletcher as SheriffPete.[3] It was the 85th Mickey Mouse short to be released, and the eighth of that year.[4]
Mickey and Donald are six months overdue on their rent payments for their home. Sheriff Pete arrives with a "Notice to Dispossess" authorizing him not only toevict them, but tosell off their belongings ascollateral. He furiously strikes a match on Donald's beak to light his cigar and leaves to put out signs advertising cheap furniture.
As Donald and Mickey decide to move before Pete can sell all their belongings, Goofy, employed as aniceman, arrives with a delivery. Mickey and Donald decide to have him help with the relocation and request for the use of his truck.
While Mickey struggles with an overloaded suitcase, Goofy tries loading an upright piano onto the truck, but the piano repeatedly rolls out of the truck when he leaves it unattended. Goofy eventually discovers the piano to have a mind of its own and has confrontations with it around the house. Meanwhile, Donald, in his haste to pack everything he sees, grabs a gas heater attached to a gas line in the wall. Seeing the leaking gas, he plugs it with a toilet plunger, but the pressure in the line shoots the plunger into his tail. Donald eventually removes the plunger, but gets stuck in a fish tank.
Just as Donald frees himself, he gets his bill stuck in the leaking gas line. His body fills with gas like a balloon until he shoots off and flies around the room like a rocket. Hearing the commotion, Pete storms into the house to chastise the trio. Unaware of the gas leak, he strikes another match on Donald's beak, triggering an explosion that destroys the house, somehow catapulting all the furniture and items (including the piano) into Goofy's truck with the resulting explosion. As they are driving away in search for a new home, Pete, sitting amid the house's wreckage, yells after them from a second story bathtub, but inadvertently turns on the hot water, leading to another humiliating defeat for him. While Donald laughs at Pete's misfortune, the plunger once again lands on his tail.
The short was released on December 4, 2001 onWalt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color.[5]
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