May 3, 1929 – The Mickey Mouse Short Film When the Cat’s Away is Released to Theaters
On May 3, 1929, the Mickey Mouse short film When the Cat’s Away was released to theaters. This is one of the few shorts where the main title music no longer survives, and one of the few shorts where Mickey is portrayed more as a mouse than his anthropomorphic self. The short was directed by Walt Disney.
Tom Cat posts a sign on his door that he is gone for the day, and locks up before he leaves with a bottle of moonshine and a shotgun. Mickey steps out of a hole in Tom’s porch and unlocks Tom’s door, entering with a whole brigade of mice. Mickey and Minnie start playing the piano together, whiel the rest of the mice start playing with various objects in Tom’s house. Mickey and Minnie discover that the piano is a player piano, and Mickey decides to use Swiss cheese as the player roll, which starts to play a mellow tune. Afterwards, the mice discover Tom’s record collection, and play the music via a makeshift record player. Mickey and Minnie entertain their friends with some slow dancing, ending with a kiss.
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