Plane Crazy (1928) on Netflix
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Mickey Mouse sets out to fly like Charles Lindbergh. A test destroys his plane, so he builds another from a car, a turkey's tail and the wreckage. Minnie brings a horseshoe.
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Plot summary
Mickey Mouse wants to fly an airplane, imitating Charles Lindbergh. He builds his own plane and runs a flight simulation to check that it is safe, but the attempt fails and the aircraft is destroyed. With a car, a turkey's tail and the wreckage he puts together a second plane. His girlfriend Minnie brings him a horseshoe for good luck, and he invites her along on the new plane's first flight.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Plane Crazy (1928)
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- Plane Crazy was the first finished film produced by Disney Cartoons and the first short to star Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse; after a test screening on May 15, 1928, an MGM executive saw it but it failed to pick up a distributor.
- Ub Iwerks was the sole animator on Plane Crazy and spent only two weeks on it in a back room, turning out over 700 drawings a day.
- For the shot where the view from the plane seemed to track into the ground, the animators piled books under the spinning background to move the artwork closer to the camera.
- In 1930 the story of Plane Crazy became the first Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip, "Lost on a Desert Island", written by Walt Disney with art by Ub Iwerks and Win Smith.
- The 1941 Mickey Mouse short The Nifty Nineties lifted a scene almost directly from Plane Crazy: Mickey and Minnie's car runs out of control and runs into a cow.
