Mickey Cartoons — Building a Building (Jan. 7, 1933)
Mickey saves box-lunch-seller Minnie from Pete, who’s boss on a construction site. Characters — Mickey Mouse Minnie Mouse Pluto Pete Credits: Director — Dave Hand Animation — Ben Sharpsteen Johnny Cannon Awards Nominated for an Academy Award (Short Subjects – Cartoons.) The award was won by “The Three Little Pigs.”
Video Rating: 4 / 5
@96bcrs And I thought it was just me. But yeah, I think all of this is from “Oswald the Lucky rabbit- Sky Scrappers (1928)”
wait… this seems familiar, could it be ripped from… oswald?
oh shit! mickey got bashed up D:
@TheNumber1Engine if you watch the movie, “the reluctant Dragon”, it shows how they did that particular sound effect with the voice
I don’t really like that bunny Oswald, but I love this episode, I’m still amused of how violent these cartoons used to be, but they are amazing. Btw Minnie & Mickey are the cutest couple on earth!!
Yeah both Sky Scrapper and Building a Building also had Pete in it.
lol His sandwich is a fish in bread
@MetalChoby
jajajaja
just kidding man jaja
@kawatzaki What…?
ah the good old days
@smbmadman1 Good thing like his big brother Oswald, Mickey is quite tough and not easily hurt.
@munizcruz That’s not surprising, both were made by Walt Disney, Sky Scrappers some 5 years prior to this one.
Wow, for a cartoon this Mickey Mouse short is surprisingly violent, especially when Pete’s just wailing on Mickey, who’s just laying there and getting pummelled. I guess you can understand his earlier frustration as Mickey was goofing off repeatidly, but his stealing his lunch and then his girlfriend definitely puts Pete over the top as a villain.
I saw the Oswald short Sky Scrappers, and this Mickey one definitely borrrows from it, but it’s got enough original stuff to make it stand out.
I love this cartoon <3
@MetalChoby
you got no social life…
This was an oswald cartoon
Women: Distracting construction workers for over a century.
I love it when Pete’s running with water pouring out the holes in his pants with the ironically cute jingle playing.
@Tributor123 *lying.
For some reason I find it extremely amusing that Pete has a peg-leg and swears “You blankity blank baboon!”
there’s a restaurant in my town that has old fashioned pictures of actors and actresses and lk old fashioned advertisements for lk cracker jacks and there is a poster and it’s building a building and its all colorful and i luv it
5:05 is like the old school Donkey Kong arcade game
aww :3
For a comparison, check out the HQ version of ‘Sky Scrappers’ (Oswald 1928)
They did make these until the ’50s.
However — the real reason Disney discontinued them was basically that Mickey had been Oswald – i.e. the same character — and it’s easy to see that something was missing in the early Mickeys by comparison. In a way, the years from ’28 – ’53 were a kind of extended goodbye to the character.
(Good news, though – Oswald’s back at Disney after 80 years!)
Why couldnt Disney keep going with these Mickey cartoons? The only thing I could count on is Toy Story nowadays