Orphans' Benefit
Orphans' Benefit
NR | 11 August 1941 (USA)
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Mickey and friends put on a revue for the orphans. Donald recites nursery rhymes, but the orphans torment him. Horace, Goofy, and Clarabelle do a dance number. Donald tries again. Clara clucks a song while Mickey plays piano (with support from an unseen orchestra). Donald returns, and the orphans finally send a parade of bricks and eggs on balloons over him and use slingshots to drop them on his head.

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AshUnow

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Keira Brennan

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

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Blake Rivera

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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Nicole

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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OllieSuave-007

This is a color remake of the original black and white 1934 cartoon of the same name and soundtrack. Here, Mickey and his friends put on a benefit show for orphans. The plot line for this story sounds touching and meaningful enough, but the orphans themselves were actually pretty mischievous with no redeeming qualities. They torment poor Donald Duck, who tries to recite nursery rhymes for them. Donald got the brunt of all the mean jokes and gags from the orphans.While the animation of this color remake is very nice and seeing Mickey team up with Donald Duck and Clara Cluck is a treat, the overall cartoon is not very entertaining or funny.Grade D--

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John T. Ryan

THE REMAKE HAS long been a staple of the great Hollywood motion picture business. But until now, we weren't aware of the extent to which redoing a picture had pervaded the studios, extending into the cartoon units. In this case, it is at the Walt Disney Studios that we find this absolute carbon copy of the black & white release from the previous decade.IF IT WEREN'T for the evolved, modified and updated appearance of the principal players, one could not be faulted for believing that this 1941 version was simply a colorized copy of the old 1934 original. The design, the background and the scripted action & gags all match in a nearly perfect manner.BY THIS TIME, Mickey had been either promoted or relegated to the straight man of the group. His stature as the "leader" of the Disney stable of characters was reassured and strengthened with his starring in the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment of FANTASIA that previous year. That left the comedy business up to the others. Goofy, Horace Horse Collar, Clarabelle Cow and the Hen.THAT LEFT ONLY the participation of Donald Duck, who had by this time affixed his rising star to the very zenith of the animated comedy. His reprising of his 1934 performance seems to be a case of spinning his wheels and wasting time.ALTHOUGH IT SEEMS to be a sort of sacrilege to even think, let alone to write or say, the animation in this installment appears to be just a trifle rough, poorly executed and even somewhat "limited"(a word that one never uses in reference to Disney).

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Ron Oliver

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.Mickey and his pals put on an ORPHANS' BENEFIT for a theater full of little brats.This was a color remake of a black & white cartoon originally produced in 1934. Donald's nursery rhymes, the acrobatic apache dance performed by Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow & Goofy, and Mme. Clara Cluck's operatic aria are all awfully funny. Florence Gill does the clucking for Clara, Clarence Nash provides Donald with his unique voice, Walt Disney does the honors for Mickey.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a storm of naysayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.

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boblipton

This short was made during the fallow period in Disney shorts: Disney was concentrating on feature production, the strike that would result in much of his staff going off to form UPA was on and the result was that his bread-and-butter work, the shorts distributed by RKO, showed a severe drop in script quality. It was not until the the following year, when he 'exiled' some of his more talented people who, he felt, had supported the strike, to the shorts department, that quality would be re-established.In the meantime, shorts like this and MICKEY'S BIRTHDAY PARTY resulted, basically redrawn version of earlier successes. Do we need to speculate on why all the 'orphans' look exactly like Mickey?

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