The Mouse Factory
A celebrity-hosted anthology of Disney cartoon and film clips.
Each episode featured Disney cartoon and movie clips, with a celebrity guest host interacting with costumed Disney park characters. The show later reran on the Disney Channel during the 1980s and 1990s.
Quick Facts
- Creator
- Ward Kimball
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes
- 43
- Runtime
- 22 minutes
- Company
- Walt Disney Productions
- Channel
- Syndicated
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Did You Know?
- The theme played over previews of each episode was a fast instrumental version of 'Whistle While You Work' from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
- The series mixes live-action with animation and features a different theme in each episode.
- Each episode includes about three short films and clips of feature films.
Ending credits
The ending credits begin with Mickey Mouse in a biplane flying across the screen while carrying a banner reading 'the end'. A large ape resembling King Kong then swipes the plane and Mickey, dropping them into its mouth and devouring them. In season 2, this was changed to Donald Duck uttering 'it won't work'. The song played over the end credits is 'Minnie's Yoo Hoo', using a version that originated in a 1968 episode of The Wonderful World of Disney.
Records
Disneyland Records put out two 12-inch LPs and three seven-inch 33 1/3 rpm records as tie-ins to the series. None of these albums included new music from the show; they all repackaged older recordings. The LP The Mouse Factory Presents Mickey and His Friends gathered songs and comedy bits. Another LP, Stories and Songs from The Mouse Factory, offered four shortened read-along versions of TV episodes. Each of the three seven-inch records featured four songs by Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy.
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