The Mickey Mouse Theater Of The Air

Show Information based on John Dunning's book "On The Air"

Music and talk for children (1938).

The Mickey Mouse Theater arrived just in time to publicize the first Disney feature-length animation, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was broadcast from the Disney Little Theater on the RKO lot, with most of the characters from Disney cartoons appearing at some point. The Seven Dwarfs, singly or together, were regulars.

The Felix Mills music had a proper cartoon sound to it, with "Donald Duck and his Webfoot Sextet" a feature of sorts. Donald's "gadget band" consisted of such instruments as meat grinder, auto horn, a Bob Bums-style bazooka, and a "syrup-cruet hurdy gurdy." The latter was operated by maestro Mills and soundman Reese, who really could coax music out of it.

CAST:

Walt Disney, host, and as the voice of Mickey Mouse.

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck.

Thelma Boardman as Minnie Mouse.

Stuart Buchanan as Goofy.

ANNOUNCER: John Hiestand.

MUSIC: Felix Mills.

SOUND EFFECTS: Hal Reese.

THEME: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

BROADCAST HISTORY:

Jan. 2-May 21, 1938, NBC. 30m, Sundays at 5:30 for Pepsodent.