Playful Pluto


Playful Pluto is a Walt Disney cartoon, directed by Burt Gillett. It was the first cartoon to showcase Pluto as a major character. It was the 65th Mickey Mouse short film, and the third of that year.

Plot

While Mickey Mouse is working in his garden, Pluto keeps bothering and interrupting him. After a while, Pluto swallows a flashlight and gets stuck on a piece of flypaper.

Voice cast

The cartoon is well known for a classic scene where Pluto gets stuck on a sticky piece of flypaper. This scene, animated by Norm Ferguson, has been described as vital in the history of character animation, because for the first time an animated character really seemed to think and have a mind of his own. The segment is also classic because it demonstrated how Disney artists were able to take a simple circumstance and build humor through a character.
Clips from the cartoon, including the flypaper scene, were used in the Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels, in which the title character has a revelation while viewing Playful Pluto alongside an audience of church-goers and chain-gang prisoners.

Home media

The short was released on December 7, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: Wave Four#Mickey Mouse in [Black and White, Volume Two|Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume Two: 1929-1935]. The short was included in bonus on the Diamond Edition blu-ray of 2009 of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
It was released to Disney+ between September 5 and 8, 2023.