The Flying Mouse

The Flying Mouse
Directed by	David Hand
Produced by	Walt Disney
Written by	William Cottrell
Starring	Marcellite Garner Marion Darlington Billy Sheets The Three Rhythm Kings
Music by	Frank Churchill Bert Lewis
Studio(s)	Walt Disney Productions
Distributor	United Artists
Released	July 14, 1934
Language	English
Preceded by	The Wise Little Hen
Followed by	Peculiar Penguins

The Flying Mouse is a Silly Symphony that was originally released on July 14, 1934.

Synopsis

A little mouse dreams to have his own set of wings. He saves a butterfly from a spider's web. The butterfly turns out to be a fairy who gives the mouse one wish: to be able to fly. But his wish turns out to be not quite what he bargained for.

Voice Cast

• Marcellite Garner - Laughing Mice
• Marion Darlington - Birds
• Pinto Colvig - Spider
• Billy Sheets - Bat
• The Three Rhythm Kings - Bats

Releases

Television

• The Mouse Factory, episode #2.7: "The Mouse Show"
• The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.23: "The 'Other' Mice"
• The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.53: "Silly Symphonies at the Zoo"

Home video

VHS

• Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions: Silly Symphonies

DVD

• Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
• Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
• Dumbo: Big Top Edition

Blu-ray

• Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition

Songs

• "I Would Like to Be a Bird"
• "You're Nothin' But a Nothin'

Trivia

• The Butterfly Fairy is very similar to the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio.
• As revealed in the documentary Frank and Ollie, future Disney animator Frank Thomas saw this cartoon as one of the first times emotions and pathos were depicted by an animated character during the sequence where the mouse was tormented in being a "nothing", convincing him to join the Walt Disney studio.
• This story is also similar to Aesop's Fables, "The Bat, The Bird And The Beast", the mouse is not welcomed by the birds nor his family, instead greeted only by the bats.

Gallery

The wind blows the mouse's rear end into a tree thorn.

The Mouse boy falls out of the tub.

The boy mouse gets his sister mouse wet and shrinks her dress.

The mouse boy exposed rear end is turning red from getting whipped.

The mouse is getting spanked by his mother.

"Help!"

A butterfly is about to be eaten by a spider.

The mouse fights the spider.

The boy mouse rescues the butterfly.

The butterfly turns into a fairy.

Hello there brother.

You're nothing but a nothing you're not a thing at all.

The poor little mouse is sad.

The butterfly fairy reappears.

The mouse is glad to be with his mother.

The Flying Mouse concept art of the mother mouse spanking the boy mouse with his tail.

v - e - d

1929 The Skeleton Dance • El Terrible Toreador • Springtime • Hell's Bells • The Merry Dwarfs 1930 Summer • Autumn • Cannibal Capers • Frolicking Fish • Arctic Antics • Midnight in a Toy Shop • Night • Monkey Melodies • Winter • Playful Pan 1931 Birds of a Feather • Mother Goose Melodies • The China Plate • The Busy Beavers • The Cat's Out • Egyptian Melodies • The Clock Store • The Spider and the Fly • The Fox Hunt (1931 short) • The Ugly Duckling (1931) 1932 The Bird Store • The Bears and Bees • Just Dogs • Flowers and Trees • King Neptune • Bugs in Love • Babes in the Woods • Santa's Workshop 1933 Birds in the Spring • Father Noah's Ark • Three Little Pigs • Old King Cole • Lullaby Land • The Pied Piper • The Night Before Christmas 1934 The China Shop • The Grasshopper and the Ants • Funny Little Bunnies • The Big Bad Wolf • The Wise Little Hen • The Flying Mouse • Peculiar Penguins • The Goddess of Spring 1935 The Tortoise and the Hare • The Golden Touch • The Robber Kitten • Water Babies • The Cookie Carnival • Who Killed Cock Robin? • Music Land • Three Orphan Kittens • Cock o' the Walk • Broken Toys 1936 Elmer Elephant • Three Little Wolves • Toby Tortoise Returns • Three Blind Mouseketeers • The Country Cousin • Mother Pluto • More Kittens 1937 Woodland Café • Little Hiawatha • The Old Mill 1938 The Moth and the Flame • Wynken, Blynken and Nod • Farmyard Symphony • Merbabies • Mother Goose Goes Hollywood 1939 The Practical Pig • The Ugly Duckling