Back The Chain Gang Czech Symphonie enchaînée French The Chain Gang Irish כנופיית השלשלאות HE Fuga di Topolino Italian ミッキーの陽気な囚人 Japanese Заключённые (мультфильм, 1930) Russian Musse Pigg i Sing-Sing Swedish
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| Directed by | Burt Gillett |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
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| Color process | Black-and-white later colorized |
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| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 7:57 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Chain Gang is a 1930 Mickey Mouse animated film produced by Walt Disney Productions for Columbia Pictures, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series.[1] It was the twenty-first Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the sixth of that year.[2] It is one of a group of shorts of strikingly uneven quality produced by Disney immediately after Ub Iwerks left the studio.[3]
The cartoon was primarily drawn by Norm Ferguson,[4] and featured a pair of bloodhounds, who helped to track down Mickey after his prison escape. Although these dogs were not named, the style in which they were drawn makes them clear forerunners of Pluto, who first officially appeared a few months later in The Picnic.[5] The animation for one of the bloodhound scenes in The Chain Gang was recycled as Pluto in four later cartoons.[1] Additionally, a few scenes contain reused animation from the Oswald The Lucky Rabbit cartoon Sagebrush Sadie.
Due to being published in 1930, the cartoon will enter the public domain on January 1, 2026.
- ^ a b Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. p. 63. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
- ^ Barrier, Michael (September 25, 2003). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-19-516729-0. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
- ^ Watts, Steven (June 27, 2002). The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life. University of Missouri Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-8262-1379-2. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
- ^ Barrier, Michael (September 25, 2003). Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-19-516729-0. Retrieved September 17, 2011.