Tugboat Mickey (1940)
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- Approved
- 7min
- Animation, Short
- 26 Apr 1940 (USA)
- Short
As Mickey, Donald and Goofy are preparing their tugboat to head out to sea, they receive a distress call from a sinking ship. This program is presented as originally created.
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Cast
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| Walt Disney | ... |
Mickey Mouse (uncredited) (voice)
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| Clarence Nash | ... |
Donald Duck (uncredited) (voice)
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Danny Webb | ... |
Goofy (uncredited) (voice)
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Directed by
| Clyde Geronimi | ... | (uncredited) |
Produced by
| Walt Disney | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Errol Gray | ... | assistant director (uncredited) |
Sound Department
| George Lowerre | ... | sound engineer (uncredited) |
Animation Department
| Ed Aardal | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Jim Armstrong | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Jack Bailey | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Johnny Cannon | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Larry Clemmons | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Rex Cox | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Andy Engman | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Arnold Gillespie | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Lloyd Harting | ... | layout artist (uncredited) |
| Volus Jones | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Hal King | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Ed Love | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Kenneth Muse | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Ken Peterson | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Grant Simmons | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Cornett Wood | ... | animator (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
| Esther Newell | ... | secretary (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- RKO Radio Pictures (1940) (United States) (theatrical)
- RKO Radio Pictures (1940) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Disney+ (2019) (United States) (video)
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Storyline
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Mickey is performing routine maintenance on his tugboat (with interference from a pelican) when a call comes on the radio that there's a sinking ship needing assistance. Sadly, Mickey's crew consists of Donald and Goofy, so getting underway to help is not easy. Goofy has to fight a boiler's door to get it stoked with coal (and when he succeeds, he overfills it) and Donald gets tangled up in the machinery. Not to mention that nobody casts off, so they drag half the dock along with them. The overworked boiler soon explodes.
Written by Jon Reeves |
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| Taglines | Mickey captains a tugboat with Donald and Goofy as the crew. See more » |
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| Parents Guide | Add content advisory for parents » |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | When Donald struggles with the connecting rod of one of the pistons in "Tugboat Mickey" from 1940, it at one point hisses back at him when he says something and Donald getting angry at it is similar to "Clock Cleaners (1937)" from 1937, where a spring hisses back at Donald when he says something and Donald getting angry at it. Both say a few of the same lines as well and cause Donald similar trouble at the end of their interaction. See more » |
| Movie Connections | Edited into The Adventure Story (1957). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Blow the Man Down See more » |