Lonesome Ghosts

Lonesome Ghosts
Mickey Mouse series

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Burt Gillett
Produced by Walt Disney
Story by Dick Friel
Voices by Walt Disney
Clarence Nash
Pinto Colvig
Billy Bletcher
Music by Albert Hay Malotte
Animation by Art Babbitt
Rex Cox
Clyde Geronimi
Dick Huemer
Milt Kahl
Isadore Klein
Ed Love
Bob Wickersham
Dick Williams
Marvin Woodward
Studio Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s) December 24, 1937 (Christmas Eve)
Color process Technicolor
Running time 8 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Lonesome Ghosts is a 1937 Disney animated cartoon, released through RKO Radio Pictures on December 24, 1937, three days after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). It was directed by Burt Gillett and animated by Izzy Klein, Ed Love, Milt Kahl, Marvin Woodward, Bob Wickersham, Clyde Geronimi, Dick Huemer, Dick Williams, Art Babbitt and Rex Cox.[1] The short features Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy as members of The Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

Plot

The Ajax Ghost Exterminators -Mickey, Donald and Goofy- are hired by telephone to drive out four ghosts from a haunted house that has long been abandoned. Unbeknownst to them, they were hired by the ghosts themselves, who are bored because nobody has visited the house they had long been haunting for a long time (either because none of the locals were scared or they had scared them all away, as one ghost puts it: "Guess we're too good!"). They wish to play tricks on the living, and do so through a series of inventive, annoying pranks. The exterminators arrive and knock on the front door, which falls down. When they announce themselves, but there is nobody to receive them. Mickey decides they should get to work anyway. When entering, the door lifts up and throws them inside before putting itself back in place. After hearing the ghost's laughter, the three split up to hunt the ghosts individually. The exterminators are toyed with at every turn; The ghost knocks Mickey on the head and puts his fingers in his gun and it explodes. Mickey is driven upstairs and tries to open a door, which falls down and the ghosts (forming a marching band) come out of the fallen door and go into another. Mickey opens the door which causes a splash of water. Donald, meanwhile, is whacked with a wooden board and is scared away by the sounds of banging chains and dishes. Goofy, in a bedroom, becomes tangled in a dresser and stabs his own rear with a pin, mistaking his blue pants for a ghost and is shoved down into the basement. In the end, the three exterminators accidentally become covered in molasses and flour, making them look like ghosts and consequently scaring the actual ghosts out of the house in a panic. The ghost hunters stand victorious, having driven the spirits out of the house, although not exactly certain how. Donald smugly assumes the ghosts fled in capitulation to their superior tactics.

Goofy says, while warily looking around him: "I'm brave! But I'm careful." Donald's observes, "So you can't take it, you big sissies!", and Goofy quips, "I ain't scared of no ghosts!" (weakly boasting while hiding from a ghost-engineered scare).

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References

  1. ↑ "Lonesome Ghosts". www.bcdb.com, April 12, 2012
  2. ↑ Archived September 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
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