The cartoon ends improbably with Mickey lifting up Pluto’s hind-quarters, and the dog flies like a bird, flapping its ears (no “illusion of life” here, folks). They can now easily escape a charging moose.
Mickey plays Pluto’s tail as a Jew’s harp. Then, because Disney cartoons had a rear end fetish, Mickey slaps the dog’s butt in rhythm to “Shave and a Hair Cut” as the iris closes.
Pluto fakes a death scene. Bugs Bunny did it a lot better, albeit it was nine years later.
Same gag was done four years earlier in Oswald's Africa Before Dark (previously lost, newly discovered!), but with an elephant. Hmm...Disney and an airborne pachyderm.....
ReplyDeleteSuffice it to say, Muttley and Snoopy's pioneering use of their appendages as helicopter rotor blades would not have been possible without Pluto's trailblazing efforts here.
ReplyDeleteI like how Pluto's shadow remains in the sky after flying off the cliff.
It seems to me Oswald or Felix did it in the silent days, I can't remember which.
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