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The early scenes of this cartoon manage to evoke a genuine feel of horror, but in the end the short resembles the boring song-and-dance routines of both the early Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony series too much to be a standout." Indeed, he looks repeatedly into the camera for sympathy, dragging us into the haunted house with him. In his book Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse, Gijs Grob disagrees: "Mickey's role in this short is limited, and his only function is as the carrier of the audience's fear. The music, the rain animation and the blowing wind that moves the objects in the foreground all help to give a sense of foreboding." Then we see Mickey struggling through a storm trying to reach the house. Instead, it starts off with an establishing shot of the titular house, which looks like a menacing face on the horizon. On the Disney Film Project, Ryan Kirkpatrick praises this short as a step forward in the series' sophistication: " The Haunted House breaks the formula of putting Mickey into a setting and having the music start immediately.
The 1931 short The Moose Hunt is also included in that section because of a similar gag featuring Pluto. The Haunted House is included in that group because of Mickey's "Mammy!" impression, which refers to Al Jolson's famous blackface performance, " My Mammy". On the 2004 Walt Disney Treasures DVD set Mickey Mouse in Black and White: Volume Two, The Haunted House is in the bonus-features "From the Vault" section, which begins with an introduction by film historian Leonard Maltin explaining the origins of racial stereotypes seen in Disney cartoons of the 30s and 40s.
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He finally falls out of a window and into a barrel full of skeletons, a skeleton that pops out from the door of an outhouse and Mickey runs away terrified. He runs up a staircase and bumps into two more skeletons in a bed. He tries to open a door, but the door handle is actually a skeleton hand who shakes Mickey frantically. When the music stops, Mickey tries to escape, but runs into dead ends. The cloaked figure and several skeletons corner Mickey in a room, and compel him to play the organ while skeletons dance along to the music, one of them using a thermostat as an accordion. He lights a match, looks around, and finds a shadow of a cloaked figure appearing in his shadow. After climbing out of the chamber pot, Mickey then hears the sound of ghosts and flees into a hallway before the lights of a chandelier above go out. When Mickey enters the house, the door locks itself, before Mickey is startled by several bats appearing from cracks in the wall and a large spider descending from the ceiling, while hiding in a chamber pot. On a dark and stormy night, Mickey Mouse takes shelter in a house that he is passing and soon discovers that it is haunted. Disney had some trouble with the state censors over this cartoon, because of the gags involving a chamber pot and an outhouse. The Haunted House was Mickey's first cartoon with a horror theme and led the way to later films such as The Gorilla Mystery (1930) and The Mad Doctor (1933). The Haunted House borrows animation from Disney's first Silly Symphony cartoon, The Skeleton Dance, which was released earlier in 1929, although most of the sequence is new. It was directed by Walt Disney who also provided the voice of Mickey Ub Iwerks was the primary animator and Carl Stalling wrote the original music. The film follows Mickey Mouse trapped in a haunted house and forced to play music. It was the fourteenth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the eleventh of that year. The cartoon was produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Celebrity Productions.
The Haunted House, also known as Haunted House, is a 1929 Mickey Mouse short animated film released by Celebrity Productions, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series.
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