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6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Solid proof that cartoons were better back in the day..., 13 MÁJUS 2000
Author: (pvtkeyser@yahoo.com) from Cedar Rapids, IA

I had a video with a few old Disney cartoons back when I was ten or so, and haven't watched it in about 10 years. I happened to be watching my nephew today, when I decided to pop it in again. And to my surprise, I was still entertained.

The best on this tape was a toon from '38 called "Mickey's Trailer." An incredible short, with loads of amazing sight gags...the house revealing itself to be just a trailer by the dump, Goofy getting the short end of the stick via some disagreeable drawers, and probably best of all, a near-miss with a train--TWICE!

It is so hard to believe this was made over 60 years ago. Somehow the animators back then had a knack for making their works timeless. Hopefully, kids will be watching this short for another 60 years.

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Anything can happen in a cartoon!, 20 DECEMBER 2003
10/10
Author: Robert Reynolds (minniemato@hotmail.com) from Tucson AZ

Disney in the late 1930s did animated shorts like no one else did them. Warner Brothers was after the visual gag and creating continuing characters, while MGM was interested in making visually pretty cartoons and mostly one-shots, with few recurring characters. For Walt Disney, shorts served a couple of primary purposes: one, they kept the Disney name and his principal characters before the public and two, most importantly to Disney, they were a good testing and training ground for new animation techniques, so he could make the feature films as close to perfect as possible. In this short (a fantastic cartoon in its own right), the visual gags are great, but the timing on everything has to be perfect or it won't work. You can see the seeds of things Disney did later in features like Dumbo and Bambi in shorts like Mickey's Trailer, which serve as dry-runs while being great works in and of themselves. Some of the best bits ever done were done for these shorts just to see what worked and what didn't. Magnificently animated. Well worth watching. Most highly recommended.

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Mickey & Friends Take The High Road To Adventure, 1 MÁRCIUS 2003
10/10
Author: Ron Oliver (revilorest@juno.com) from Forest Ranch, CA

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.

With Goofy at the wheel, a vacation spent in MICKEY'S TRAILER soon turns into a road trip to terror for The Mouse & Donald Duck.

Here is one of the classic Disney cartoons, full of good humor, keen inventiveness & some genuine hair-raising thrills. The animation is excellent, giving each member of the trio a chance to shine. The animators took obvious delight in showing the trailer's various gizmos & gadgets, all compacted into a very small space. The opening sequence is very clever, with a tiny cottage and its bucolic setting being transmogrified by Mickey into a jalopy, trailer and stinking city dump.

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 comic 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 childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work will always pay off.

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Perfect Disney Classic Mickey Mouse and Friends Cartoon, 14 NOVEMBER 2006
Author: Safari-1969 from Northeastern United States

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1938 is the year of this gem. That's an instant classic even back then. Mickey turns his house into a camper which is actually parked at the city dump. Mickey, Donald, and Goofy enjoy their trip. But the trouble starts when Goofy leaves the car pulling the trailer and eating breakfast with Mickey and Donald.

The animation is great, and the mayhem gets better and better. The scene where Mickey and Donald trying survive in the trailer rolling around the mountains, classic. It ends so ironic too. See this cartoon immediately, this is one of the best Mickey and Friends cartoons to be coming out of the studio.

A 10 out of 10. This one is a classic.

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Probably the best of all the Mickey Mouse shorts, 25 DECEMBER 2001
10/10
Author: zetes from Saint Paul, MN

I was obsessed with this cartoon when I was a child, and now that I have the new DVD box set "Mickey Mouse in Living Color," I can watch it every day! This is just filled to the brim with some of the funniest jokes Disney ever created. The animation is simply gorgeous, as it always was in this era of Disney Studios. 10/10.

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Mickey, Donald and Goofy on a trip, 24 ÁPRILIS 2004
7/10
Author: rbverhoef (rbverhoef@hotmail.com) from The Hague, Netherlands

In this cartoon from Disney we see Mickey, Donald and Goofy on a trip with Mickey's trailer. It is not a normal trailer, but one that can transform to many things. The room where Donald wakes up changes into a bathroom and then into a dining room. Goofy is behind the wheel before Mickey, who was working in the kitchen, serves dinner. When dinner is served the three start eating but especially Goofy forgets there is no one behind the wheel and the trailer is still moving.

This is a very nice cartoon, with terrific animation. From the start where the trailer reveals it is not a normal one and it can even create a beautiful scenery, to the ending, where the trailer and the car that pulls it are separated, this cartoon will give you a smile.

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I remembered this!!!!!, 30 JÚLIUS 2006
10/10
Author: Seth Nelson from (Near) D/FW Airport, Texas, USA

1938 had brought about everyone's favorite Disney color short, "Mickey's Trailer." Now, I won't spoil the story for you, kids, but at least I can say that...it has Mickey Mouse in it and.....he's got a car...with a trailer!!!!!

5 things I liked the best about this short:

1. It's original!!!!! I can't think of any other cartoon short series out there that had crazy trailer driving!

2. It's animated!!!!! Mickey and his friends all are here in this short, having fun!

3. It's Disney!!!!! Ditto!

4. It's short!!!!! A great way to laugh and smile in just 7 to 10 minutes!!!!!

5. It's a classic!!!!!

Yep, they have convinced me to like "Mickey's Trailer" very, very much!

10/10

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Mickey's Trailer is another entertaining Walt Disney/Mickey Mouse cartoon, 19 FEBRUÁR 2009
8/10
Author: tavm from Baton Rouge, La.

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Just watched this Walt Disney/Mickey Mouse cartoon on YouTube as linked from the Federator blog. In this one, Mickey-along with Goofy and Donald Duck-inhabit a trailer which can literally become a house in a beautiful setting as evidenced by the beginning scene when it's revealed to actually occupy a city dump! As the trailer moves, the Mouse gets corn and milk from outside (and without permission, I must say!), while sleepy Donald has his room transform from a bedroom to a bathroom to a table as he, Mickey, and Goofy-who leaves his attached moving car going to the table-eat to their heart's content. Then the Goof realizes no one's driving...This mostly amusing Disney animated short takes its own sweet time in presenting the various gags and thrills that makes this so entertaining and the characters so lovable in how they react. Mickey's Trailer is well worth seeing for animation buffs of Walt Disney.

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A Trailer So Advanced We Haven't Reached It Yet In Reality, 26 JANUÁR 2007
Author: theowinthrop from United States

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This is not a brilliant cartoon, but it is inventive. Mickey is seen leaving the door of his home, and it is on a brilliant morning, with a gorgeous view behind the house. And he pulls a switch, and the whole house and it's outer perimeter (complete with white picket fence) is mechanically collected and returned to the house, and the gorgeous view turns out to be a fan like device that folds into the back of what is actually a commodious trailer.

With Goofy driving, Mickey is in the trailer's kitchen making breakfast. This includes collecting corn from stalks along the roadside (cut as the trailer passes the stalks), and even milking a cow that Goofy is feeding hay to as he drives. Donald gets out of bed (a little difficulty is involved in his arising from bed) and the bed is dropped into a wall, while a huge purse-like bag appears - which is Donald's bathtub with water.

So it goes, with crazy inventions turning up. Then the defects of this travel method are shown thanks to Goofy, who first leaves the car still moving along a curvy mountain road, and then manages to disconnect the trailer from the car. The rest of the cartoon involves how the runaway trailer with Mickey and Donald keeps just avoiding disaster - especially by cartoon assistance in avoiding the law of gravity), and how it is reunited with Goofy's car at the end. The action never drops, and the crazy advanced luxury items of that trailer makes the cartoon enjoyable enough - even if it is not a great Disney cartoon. It's a good example of his later color cartoon work, but nothing particularly special.

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An okay cartoon, 15 MÁRCIUS 2005
6/10
Author: Shawn Watson (gator_macready@yahoo.com) from The Underverse

In this short Mickey, Donald and Goofy are living a sort of Gypsy lifestyle, moving from place to place in their caravan. Goofy is the driver and when breakfast is served he leaves the car driving on it's own and goes back into the caravan to eat. Well, you pretty much know what's going to happen now huh? That's right...disaster.

Disaster seems to follow these characters everywhere and their cartoons only ever seem to be made up of it. However, some of the contraptions and near-misses in this one are quite imaginative and bring a tiny bit of something new to something old and increasingly boring. Expect only a few mild laughs.

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