August 3, 1935 – The Mickey Mouse Short Film Mickey’s Fire Brigade is Released to Theaters
“I’ll get you, you little devil!”
On August 3, 1935, the Mickey Mouse short film Mickey’s Fire Brigade was released to theaters. It was directed by Ben Sharpsteen. Although a Mickey Mouse short, the cartoon features Goofy and Donald as leading characters. The short also features a small segment of the popular song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” from the popular 1933 Silly Symphony The Three Little Pigs.
A fire has broken out at a boarding house, and the residents are struggling to get out. The sound of the fire brigade is heard, with Mickey, Donald, and Goofy heading to the rescue. Poor Goofy has difficulty staying with the fire wagon, and when the three arrive, they don’t exactly act like the most coordinated fire brigade. Donald tries to enter the house through the root cellar, and is chased through a window by flames, while Goofy is sucker punched by the smoke. Mickey finally gets the hose going, but the flames shut the window, leaving Mickey to flail in the air while holding on to the hose for dear life. As he tumbles to the ground, he accidentally activates the ladder, which sends him crashing through a window and then through the roof, where he sits precariously in a chest of drawers.
Donald chases a flame around the boarding house, hoping to destroy it with his axe
Donald chases after a flame with his axe and ends up doing more damage to the house than the flames. Goofy chucks as much furniture as he can out the window, unaware that he is throwing it straight into the fire wagon’s boiler. One table with collapsible sides flies out the window and flies right back in, knocking Goofy against the wall. Meanwhile, Donald gets the idea to trap the flames with flypaper, which works, but then the flames band together to attack Donald with the water bucket. Mickey ends up falling down the chimney, crashing into the fireplace Goofy and Donald are holding. They hear Clarabelle Cow singing upstairs, unware of any fire, and decide to go rescue her. When she sees them, she throws her scrubbing brush at them, thinking that they’re just being fresh. They manage to cart her out, although she accuses them of being kidnappers and keeps screaming for the police. She manages to slide her way down the ground, while the boys land in the bathtub, and are continuously beaten by Clarabelle and her scrub brush.
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