Hitchcoc I would say that half or more of these early Mickey Mouse cartoons involve his turning animals and inanimate objects into musical instruments. Here he faces off with dangerous characters but subdues them with tunes. He also seems able to pull their whiskers or twist their bodies without consequences. This one is loaded with these clever manipulations and comes across pretty well. No plot. Just Mickey doing his thing.

OllieSuave-007 This is not a bad little musical, with Mickey playing all sorts of instruments with a band of animals in the jungle. There's quite a bit of toe-tapping music, including the Blue Danube, Turkey in the Straw, Aloha 'Oe, and Yankee Doodle. There's really not plot to the cartoon, just plenty of songs and dances. Grade B-

Robert Reynolds This is an early Disney cartoon featuring Mickey Mouse. There will be spoilers ahead:The only thing even remotely giving the appearance of a "plot" is the indication early on that Mickey is on safari hunting big game, but that blows away with his weapon disintegrating on him first time out.The cartoon turns musical shortly thereafter. While Mickey is trying to be nonchalant in a tight spot, a monkey starts playing a squeeze-box and off we go.Everyone instantly starts getting along except for three monkeys who become music critics in a riff on the old "see no evil" bit. Mickey seems to find musical "instruments" in everyone and everything, from a tree limb to varied and various animal body parts, on occasion engendering anger along the way.It's a fun ride which goes absolutely nowhere-and it's well worth the trip! This short can be found on the Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume Two Disney Treasures DVD set and is well worth tracking down. Recommended.

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.Mickey shows true JUNGLE RHYTHM in the wilds, making merry music using the bodies of various & sundry creatures.This early black & white Mouse film is almost completely plotless, its action entirely driven by the soundtrack. Music mavens will recognize 'The Blue Danube,' 'Aloha Oe' & 'Yankee Doodle' among other tunes.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.