The Chain Gang (1930)
August 6, 1930Release Date
The Chain Gang (1930)
August 6, 1930Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
George Magrill
Singing Prisoners
David Hand
Animation
Ben Sharpsteen
Animation
Pinto Colvig
Hounds
Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse
Wilfred Jackson
Animation
Jack Cutting
Animation
Burt Gillett
Director
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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. It was the twenty-first Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the sixth of that year. It is one of a group of shorts of strikingly uneven quality produced by Disney immediately after Ub Iwerks left the studio.The cartoon was primarily drawn by Norm Ferguson, and featured a pair of bloodhounds, who helped to track down Mickey after his escape from prison. 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. The animation for one of the bloodhound scenes in The Chain Gang was recycled as Pluto in four later cartoons. Additionally, a few scenes contain reused animation from the Oswald The Lucky Rabbit cartoon Sagebrush Sadie.