The Barnyard Broadcast


The Barnyard Broadcast is a 1931 Mickey Mouse animated short film directed by Burt Gillett, produced by Walt [Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions] and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was the thirty-third short in the Mickey Mouse film series, and the ninth produced that year.

Plot

In a studio constructed in a barn, Mickey Mouse and his friends, Minnie Mouse, Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow, perform music for a radio broadcast. The listeners are all animals in the barnyard. The program goes smoothly, until a cat enters the barn and disrupts the music with his yowling. Mickey chases the cat out of the barn, but it returns through a hole in the door, followed by four unruly kittens. Mickey's attempts to get rid of the felines lead to the destruction of the instruments and the radio station.

Voice cast

In a contemporary review, Motion Picture Herald said: "It is all delightful, nonsensical and amusing."
In Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse, Gijs Grob writes: "The studio uses the cats to a great effect in a second attempt, after Mickey Steps Out, to build a finale from a string of gags. The film is not entirely successful in this, and only gains momentum when Mickey picks up the broom."

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].

Television

The Barnyard Broadcast was included in the TV show The Mickey Mouse Club.