TheLittleSongbird Mickey's Gala Premiere is a superb cartoon that I loved as a child and still love to this day. There is so much to love about it, with everything I love about the Disney cartoons present here. The animation is crisp, clean and beautifully shaded. I do agree somewhat about the character designs of some of the caricatures being on the slightly cruel, but never offensive, side, but that didn't deter me from enjoying, loving even, Mickey's Gala Premiere. Besides Mickey and the gang were animated perfectly I felt. I also loved the cartoon for its energetic music(as ever enhancing the action wonderfully without it feeling repetitive) and the glitzy, exciting Hollywood atmosphere. As well as having Mickey(the star of the cartoon), Minnie, Pluto(their stepping out the limousine signifies classic Hollywood), Horace and Clarabelle, there is the wonderful gag where Mickey keeps changing vehicles with a galloping xylophone, a turtle, an octopus and a kangaroo.Mickey's Gala Premiere is notable also for three things. The caricatures, some I recognised immediately like Greta Garbo, Mae West, Laurel and Hardy, Joe E.Brown, The Marx Brothers, Maurice Chevalier, The Barrymores, Charlie Chaplin, Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich, Buster Keaton and Douglas Fairbanks, and others like Will Hays(looking very like Prince Charles), Sid Graumann, Wheeler and Whooley, George Arliss and Janet Gaynor that I wasn't so familiar with. Also, the interesting use of the cartoon-within-a-cartoon with Galloping Romance, which is like Galloping Gaucho, The Birthday Party and The Cactus Kid all in one and with amusing if slightly predictable results. Finally, the "it's all a dream" ending; some may find this strategy a cop-out, and at first it did disappoint me, but after watching it many more times since then I realise that this approach was deliberate, not just because the cartoon like with the cartoon-within-a-cartoon idea was acknowledging its medium but also taking away any since of arrogance the cartoon could've had. The voice work from all is spot on.In conclusion, a classic cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox

didi-5 This Mickey Mouse cartoon, as well as being extremely charming, is a joy to watch if you are a 1930s movie buff. The caricatures of leading players of the time such as Clark Gable, Eddie Cantor, Wheeler and Woolsey, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, Mae West, Marie Dressler, Greta Garbo, and Will Rogers are fun to spot; I especially laughed at Will Hay (film censor of the time) in regal get-up, and at the slouchy, big-footed Greta Garbo.The film within a film, Galloping Romance, is a kind of companion piece to an earlier Mickey cartoon, Galloping Gaucho. Again Pete kidnaps Minnie and again Mickey saves the day. This film is funny, snappy, and well put-together.'Mickey's Gale Premier' stands out from many of the other shorts made at the time because of its currency and reference to many stars. Other studios made similar forays into celebrity caricature (Warner Bros. Coo-Coo Nut Grove for one) but this one is the most successful, even if you can't place who many of the people depicted are - if you can, this cartoon is a sheer delight.

F Gwynplaine MacIntyre "Mickey's Gala Premiere" is an above-average Mickey Mouse cartoon from Disney's best period. The premise is simple: Mickey Mouse produces a movie, and all the biggest stars in Hollywood (1933 vintage) show up for the premiere.Unfortunately, most modern viewers will be unable to identify some or all of the big stars who appear (in cartoon form) in this cartoon. The caricatures are quite cruel: Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler are drawn to look like a couple of gross hippopotami. Greta Garbo is drawn with exaggerated feet. (During Garbo's stardom, she was frequently the butt of jokes about her allegedly large feet ... actually, her feet were quite normal, but she had an ungainly gait that made them seem larger.)Even viewers who recognise all the film stars in this cartoon might still be baffled by some of the references. Why are Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante shown handcuffed together? Answer: this is a reference to one scene in 'What! No Beer?' ... a film that was released just as "Mickey's Gala Premiere" went into production.From a British standpoint, the most notable aspect of "Mickey's Gala Premiere" is its unique role in the history of television. Before World War Two, television reception in Britain was only available in London and the Home Provinces, from a transmitter at Alexandra Palace. On the first day of September 1939, executives at 'Ally Pally' decided to shut down tv transmission for the duration of the war, so that the transmitters could not be used as signal beacons by German bombers. At the precise instant when the plug was pulled, London audiences were watching "Mickey's Gala Premiere" on television ... and the screens went blank about halfway through the cartoon. After the war, when the time came to resume tv transmission, a BBC executive jokingly suggested that transmission should begin with the same Mickey Mouse cartoon ... starting in mid-film, at the precise spot where it left off six years earlier.Cooler heads prevailed, and on 7 June 1946, the Earl of Listowel threw the switch to resume British tv transmission ... starting with "Mickey's Gala Premiere" shown from its *beginning*. The cartoon was followed with performances from ballerina Margot Fonteyn, harpist John Cockerill and the New Zealand-born cartoonist David Low whose political cartoons had done so much to maintain wartime morale.I'll rate "Mickey's Gala Premiere" 7 points out of 10, but at least one point is for this cartoon's unique role in the history of British television.

Squonk This is an enjoyable black and white Mickey Mouse short in which Mickey is the guest of honor at the premiere of his latest film. Most of this short's humor relies on cartoon versions of many famous faces from when this film was made. I'm sure many of today's viewers would have a difficult time recognizing all of them. Some of them are kind of bland but others are very funny, the Joe E. Brown character is especially funny. The movie within the movie has it's share of funny moments.