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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Flying Mouse
| image          =
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| caption        = 
| director       = [[David Hand (animator)|David Hand]]
| producer       = [[Walt Disney]]
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| screenplay     = 
| story          = 
| narrator       = 
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| starring       = [[Marcellite Garner]]<br>Marion Darlington<br>Billy Sheets<br>The Three Rhythm Kings
| music          = [[Frank Churchill]]<br> [[Bert Lewis]]
| cinematography = 
| editing        = 
| animator       = [[Hamilton Luske]]<br>[[Bob Kuwahara]]<br>Harry Bailey<br>Bob Wickersham
| layout_artist  = 
| background_artist = Carlos Manríquez
| studio         = [[Walt Disney Productions]]
| distributor    = [[United Artists Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1934|07|14}}
| color_process  = [[Technicolor]]
| runtime        = 9 min
| country        = United States
| language       = English
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'''''The Flying Mouse''''' is a ''[[Silly Symphonies]]'' cartoon produced by [[Walt Disney]], directed by [[David Hand (animator)|David Hand]], and released to theatres by [[United Artists]] on July 14, 1934.<ref name="symphony1">{{cite book |last1=Merritt |first1=Russell |last2=Kaufman |first2=J. B. |year=2016 |title=Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series |location=Glendale, CA |edition=2nd |publisher=[[Disney Editions]] |pages=146–147 |isbn=978-1-4847-5132-9}}</ref> The use of color here was rather innovative as it is set during the course of a single day.

==Plot==
To the tune "I Would Like to Be a Bird", a young mouse fashions wings from a pair of leaves, to the great amusement of his brothers. When his attempts to use them fail, the mouse got blown backwards and his rear end crashes into a thorn, he falls into the tub and shrinks his sister's dress and gets spanked by his mother. When a butterfly calls for help, he rescues it from a spider. When the butterfly proves to be a fairy, the mouse wishes for wings. But his bat-like appearance doesn't fit in with either the birds or the other mice, and he finds himself friendless; even the bats make fun of him, making a point that he is "Nothin' But A Nothin'". The butterfly fairy reappears and removes the mouse's wings, telling him: "Be yourself and life will smile on you". Then the boy mouse runs all the way home where he is reunited with his mother and 3 mouse brothers.

==Production==
The Flying Mouse boy and his mother make an appearance as spectators in the 1936 [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon ''[[Mickey's Polo Team]]''.

==Voice cast==
* Bat: Billy Sheets
* Male voices: The Three Rhythm Kings
* Bird whistles: Marion Darlington
* Laughing mice: [[Marcellite Garner]]<ref name=symphony1/>

==Home media==
The short was released on December 4, 2001, on ''[[Walt Disney Treasures: Wave One#Silly Symphonies|Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Silly Symphonies: The Historic Musical Animated Classics DVD Review|url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/sillysymphonies.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref><ref name=symphony1/> Prior to that, the featurette also appeared on the ''Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition: Silly Symphonies'' VHS in the 1980s.

It was also released as a bonus feature, alongside fellow ''Silly Symphony'' short ''[[Elmer Elephant]]'', on DVD/Blu-Ray releases of ''Dumbo''.

==References==
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== External links ==
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* {{IMDb title|id=0025126}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20121122171522/http://www.disneyshorts.org/shorts.aspx?shortID=209 ''The Flying Mouse''] at the Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts

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[[Category:1930s English-language films]]
[[Category:American animated short films]]
[[Category:1930s Disney animated short films]]
[[Category:Silly Symphonies]]
[[Category:Animated films about mice]]
[[Category:Animated films about bats]]
[[Category:Films about fairies]]
[[Category:Films directed by David Hand (animator)]]
[[Category:Films produced by Walt Disney]]
[[Category:Films scored by Frank Churchill]]
[[Category:1930s American films]]
[[Category:English-language short films]]
[[Category:1934 animated short films]]


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