Trader Mickey is a Mickey Mouse short that debuted August 26, 1932.
Summary[]
While taking a shipload of musical instruments along the African coast, Mickey and Pluto are captured by cannibals. The savages plan to eat them until Mickey trades the instruments for their freedom, then engages in a wild jam session to "The Darktown Strutters' Ball."
Characters[]
- Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney)
- Pluto (voiced by Pinto Colvig)
- Cannibals
- Chief (voiced by Pinto Colvig)
Home video releases[]
DVD
- Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume 2
Trivia[]
- The Chief reads Ballyhoo, a humorous magazine from at the time, laughing.
- The Chief is voiced by Pinto Colvig, who uses the same laugh that he used to Goofy.
- This cartoon is known for including stereotypical Native Africans depictions, such as exaggerated lips, half naked, cannibals, and dim-witted, examples include:
- Almost all of them have nose piercings
- They wear bones in their heads
- They speak actual gibberish
- The Chief eats and salts a cuckoo clock bird
- They do not understand how to play instruments
- The cook uses a saxophone to stir food