Robert Reynolds This is an early Mickey Mouse cartoon produced by the Disney studio. There will be spoilers ahead:This is a very good short, with Mickey playing a wandering minstrel, Minnie a princess and Goofy (here named Dippy Dawg) as a prince, of all things.The king announces Minnie's impending wedding to Goofy, to which she objects strenuously by slapping him repeatedly. He should have run after the first slap. Minnie is banished to the attic by the king. Mickey sees this and goes outside the attic window to vow (in "song") that he'll rescue her, then floats up to her window and into the attic, asking her if she has a rope! If she had a rope, she wouldn't need rescuing.While king and court are pigging out at the banquet (at which the guillotine is put to a creative use) Mickey and Minnie are escaping out the window on an improvised rope made from Clarabelle Cow's clothing (don't ask!). They get caught because the short needs a stirring ending, so Mickey gets introduced to the guillotine in its traditional form of usage. Minnie pleads that she loves this complete stranger and the king suggests a duel, in the form of a joust. This takes up most of the last two minutes and is hilarious. The outcome is obvious and the ending is cute.This short is available on several DVDs and is well worth tracking down.

TheLittleSongbird I really enjoyed this silly symphony. It was fun and enjoyable, with some genuinely funny moments, my favourite being when Mickey spikes Goofy in the bottom with a broken spear. The short is set in a medieval age, and because of that, it was jolly fun from start to finish. The animation in colourful and vibrant Technicolour is really very nice to look at, and all the characters, especially Mickey as a minstrel are endearing. The vocals of Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney and Marcelitte Garner are flawless, and the music is rousing and wholly memorable. If you love Silly Symphonies or Disney in general, then I think you have a winner in the name of Ye Olden Days. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) This short is my favorite Mickey Mouse shorts from 1933; I am quite terribly particular about that (a favorite cartoon short from which year). Now this cartoon is set like a stage-theatre play, and it shows Mickey in a medieval setting as a wandering minstrel, saving Princess Minnie from having to marry Prince Goofy of Poopoopadoo. Yep! Prince Goofy, a villain, strange but true. Here is a note I like to point out: This short is the first Mickey short that is set in a medieval setting. The second short is the popular colored short The Brave Little Tailor.I don't have any particular scene I like, because I love this cartoon from beginning to end.

Ron Oliver A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.In YE OLDEN DAYS, medieval minstrel Mickey tries to rescue Princess Minnie from marrying a foolish, dimwitted Prince.This is an excellent old black & white cartoon and features fine animation, action & plenty of humor. As the Prince, Goofy appears in his early - and blessedly brief - Dippy Dawg incarnation. A feisty Clarabelle Cow plays Minnie's lady-in-waiting. Walt Disney provides Mickey's squeaky voice.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.