Mickey Mouse in Vietnam
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mickey Mouse in Vietnam |
| Original title | Mickey Mouse in Vietnam |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1968 |
| length | 1 minute |
| Rod | |
| Director | Whitney Lee Savage |
| script | Dave Dixon |
| production | Milton Glaser |
Mickey Mouse in Vietnam (original title: Mickey Mouse in Vietnam ) is an animated 16-mm ground - Short , who in traditional animation has been created.
It was created in 1968 and with a duration of 1:07 minutes one of the shortest anti-war films of cinema history . The film was drawn in black and white. The director was Whitney Lee Savage (father of Adam Savage ), the producer and illustrator was Milton Glaser . The anti-war film was made at the time of the great anti- Vietnam War protests in the USA and quickly achieved a high level of awareness as an underground film within the global anti-war movement . In 1969 the film was presented for the first time in Hof at an international film festival . The anti-war film received an award at the short film festival in Oberhausen in 1970 .
The film infringes the copyrights of Walt Disney, who died two years before it was made . The Disney Company waived a lawsuit for strategic reasons.
action
Mickey Mouse (a form of representation borrowed from the early days) enters the screen from the left and with a broad smile walks past an advertising sign that says:
JOIN THE ARMY AND SEE THE WORLD (Go to the Army and see the world)
The sign catches Mickey's attention and he comes back and looks at the advertising message for a few seconds, turning his back on the viewer. He then disappears to the right from the picture and returns from there with a helmet on his head and armed with a rifle . He goes out of the picture to the left again and comes back from there.
For the next cut, Micky is still wearing a helmet. He is now on a steamship called To Viet Nam . The subsequent crossing of the Pacific Ocean is shown from a bird's eye view . Explosions can be seen on the headland of Vietnam . Arrived on the bank, Micky is shown again as a full figurine, there are two signs here, one says that he is now in Vietnam, the other shows him the way to war.
Mickey goes ashore and into the jungle , which is indicated by towering grass. Mickey goes into this jungle but after only three steps he is hit in the head by a shot, which is illustrated by the helmet flying away. Micky sinks down and is now presented in a lying view. At first he smiles with his eyes closed, this smile vanishes when dark blood trickles out of the circular headshot hole. This scene focuses on the head. The film then ends by darkening this scene to total blackness.
Aftermath
The film attracted media attention especially at the time it was made and during the Vietnam War.
In 2009 the illustrator Milton Glaser was honored by US President Barack Obama with the National Medal of Arts for his life's work.
The film was long considered lost. In 2013 a surviving copy was discovered in the archive of the Sarajevo Film Festival . The short film was uploaded to YouTube for the first time on April 22, 2013 and had over 100,000 views in the first year. The fact that the film was thought to be lost for so long is attributed to the fact that the Disney Company tried to buy up all copies to prevent distribution. Even the first time creator of the video on YouTube deleted the video after three weeks, but it was copied and re-uploaded many times during this period.
Web links
- Mickey Mouse in Vietnam on YouTube
- Mickey Mouse in Vietnam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mickey Mouse in Vietnam on filmaffinity.com