Get a Horse!

Get A Horse! is a 2013 black-and-white/color traditional/CGI hybrid Walt Disney Animation Studios short film. The short features archival voice recordings of Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse.

Plot
Get A Horse! follows Mickey, his favorite gal pal Minnie Mouse and their friends Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow as they delight in a musical wagon ride - until Peg-Leg Pete shows up and tries to run them off the road.

Synopsis
The film begins with Mickey Mouse walking from his house and seeing a hay wagon riding down the road. He jumps on the wagon, which then picks up a hitchhiking Clarabelle. Mickey then sees Minnie running along and helps her up onto the wagon. Just then, Peg-Leg Pete shows up in his jalopy, and Pete honks his horn that bellows "Make way for the future!". Mickey and Minnie laugh at Pete's car, so Pete snatches Minnie and hurls Mickey and Horace away, but they seem to bounce against the screen. So Pete throws them harder until they rip through the screen and Mickey sees that he's now in color and CGI.

As Pete from the screen taunts Mickey on the stage, Horace comes onto the stage wearing a t-shirt eating some popcorn. Mickey gets the idea to turn Horace into a mock biplane, with the popcorn and bullets, to attack Pete as he speeds away with Minnie. After that attempt fails, Mickey finds a smartphone on stage and contacts Pete (who uses an old candlestick phone) to insult him over it. However, Pete's car rolls off a cliff and into a lake, giving Mickey the idea to punture a hole in the screen to let the water leak out, which causes a large hole to open and flood the stage, washing Minnie, Pete and the other cartoon animals out.

Mickey and Minnie's reunion is short-lived however, as Pete gives chase to the gang both inside and out until he catches Minnie again. Not knowing what to do, Mickey gets a brilliant idea to flip the screen over, causing Pete to fall down onto the ground and have his car crash down on him. Mickey flips the screen again and causes all sorts of humiliation fo Pete, such as having him get stabbed with a pitchfork, get electrocuted on telephone wires and having his car crush him. After several rounds of this, Pete falls through the screen, completely tearing it down, and is knocked out on the stage, as the car's horn shouts to him "Get a horse!". The characters go back into their environment and pull down a new black and white screen and Mickey and Minnie kiss as the iris closes. Pete tries to leap back into the screen, but gets stuck getting through as the flap on the back of his pants opens up to reveal the words "THE END".

Characters

 * Mickey Mouse
 * Minnie Mouse
 * Horace Horsecollar
 * Clarabelle Cow
 * Pete
 * Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (cameo)

Cast

 * Walt Disney as Mickey Mouse
 * Marcellite Garner/Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse
 * Billy Bletcher/Will Ryan as Peg-Leg Pete

Release
Get A Horse! debuted June 11, 2013 at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in Annecy, France.

It made its U.S. premiere on August 9, 2013 the 2013 D23 Expo and will theatrically accompany Walt Disney Animation Studios' Frozen, which will be released on November 27, 2013.

Production
Get a Horse! was conceived and directed by Lauren MacMullan (Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Simpsons), who became the first woman to solo direct a Disney animated film. She started working on the short after Wreck-It Ralph director, Rich Moore, told her that Disney was looking for some Mickey Mouse ideas for television. Being fond of the earliest Mickey Mouse shorts, mostly because of their simplicity and freshness, she decided for a style resembling the 1928 animation. Produced in 18 months, its hand-drawn animation was supervised by Eric Goldberg, and its computer animation by Adam Green. To achieve the 1928 look, ageing and blur filters were added to the image, while for the CG part, they created new models, faithful to character designs of 1928.

It took about two weeks for the editors to edit Walt Disney's voice tracks to assemble the word "red" and make it sound like a surprised statement.