When Magoo Flew

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Movie
Original title When Magoo Flew
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1955
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director Pete Burness
script Barbara Avedon ,
Tedd Pierce
production Stephen Bosustow
for UPA
music Hoyt Curtin

When Magoo Flew is a 1955 American animated short film directed by Pete Burness .

action

The extremely short-sighted Mr. Magoo wants to go to the cinema. He mistakenly mistook the nearby airport for the cinema building, happily reads the advertising posters for Hawaii trips as a hint for a 3D film, pulls out a "movie ticket" from the Your Weight Fortune machine and sits down in his airplane seat full of anticipation. He is enthusiastic about the 3D feeling when the plane takes off, as it feels as if you were sitting on the plane yourself. He also praises the realism of the dialogues, as a detective is talking to a stewardess near his armchair and is looking for a thief. He happens to be the person sitting next to him, Mr. Magoos, and escapes, leaving his bag behind. Mr. Magoo decides to bring it to him.

Because of his short-sightedness, he opens the emergency exit he holds for the elevator to the lobby and walks around on the wings , criticizing the ailerons as a potential stumbling block. He continues to wander around on the plane, finally looks unmoved from the outside into the cockpit and is pushed inside by the pilots using a gripper arm. Mr. Magoo brings the thief his suitcase when the thief has just protested to the detective that he has never owned one.

The plane lands and Mr. Magoo leaves the airport. He praises the stewardess for the good film, but regrets that it was not a cartoon and wants to know whether they would also show the films about the short, very short-sighted man who always laughs so strangely.

production

When Magoo Flew was released in Technicolor on January 6, 1955 . It was the first cartoon about Mr. Magoo that was made in Cinemascope .

The series of films about Mr. Magoo began in 1949 with the short cartoon Ragtime Bear . When Magoo Flew was the 16th film in the cartoon series. As in every Magoo episode, the main character in When Magoo Flew is voiced by Jim Backus .

Awards

When Magoo Flew won in 1955 the Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ". Previously, in 1951 ( Trouble Indemnity ) and 1952 ( Pink and Blue Blues ) two films about Mr. Magoo had been nominated for an Oscar; In 1957, Magoo's Puddle Jumper, a second Mr. Magoo film, won an Oscar.

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