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I had a video with a few old Disney cartoons back when I was ten or so, and haven't watched it in about 10 years. I happened to be watching my nephew today, when I decided to pop it in again. And to my surprise, I was still entertained.

The best on this tape was a toon from '38 called "Mickey's Trailer." An incredible short, with loads of amazing sight gags...the house revealing itself to be just a trailer by the dump, Goofy getting the short end of the stick via some disagreeable drawers, and probably best of all, a near-miss with a train--TWICE!

It is so hard to believe this was made over 60 years ago. Somehow the animators back then had a knack for making their works timeless. Hopefully, kids will be watching this short for another 60 years.

Disney in the late 1930s did animated shorts like no one else did them. Warner Brothers was after the visual gag and creating continuing characters, while MGM was interested in making visually pretty cartoons and mostly one-shots, with few recurring characters. For Walt Disney, shorts served a couple of primary purposes: one, they kept the Disney name and his principal characters before the public and two, most importantly to Disney, they were a good testing and training ground for new animation techniques, so he could make the feature films as close to perfect as possible. In this short (a fantastic cartoon in its own right), the visual gags are great, but the timing on everything has to be perfect or it won't work. You can see the seeds of things Disney did later in features like Dumbo and Bambi in shorts like Mickey's Trailer, which serve as dry-runs while being great works in and of themselves. Some of the best bits ever done were done for these shorts just to see what worked and what didn't. Magnificently animated. Well worth watching. Most highly recommended.

This is one of my favorite Disney cartoons, featuring stars Mickey, Donald and Goofy. Here, they are going on a camp-out in their hi-tech trailer. Goofy takes the driver's seat, Mickey is cooking in the kitchen and Donald is in bed, trying hard to wake up.

This cartoon is filled with hilarious scenes that will send an audience laughing their hearts out, including parts where Mickey tries to wake Donald up, Goofy trying hard to get some food in his mouth while the trailer is rolling up and down on bumpy roads, and the part where Donald gets down on his knees and pray as their trailer came close to colliding with an incoming train. My favorite part is where the trailer tumbles down the hill, in a comedic way.

Filled with laughter, adventure and some camp-time music, this cartoon short is surely a timeless classic for all ages to enjoy.

Grade A

1938 had brought about everyone's favorite Disney color short, "Mickey's Trailer." Now, I won't spoil the story for you, kids, but at least I can say that...it has Mickey Mouse in it and.....he's got a car...with a trailer!!!!!

5 things I liked the best about this short:

1. It's original!!!!! I can't think of any other cartoon short series out there that had crazy trailer driving!

2. It's animated!!!!! Mickey and his friends all are here in this short, having fun!

3. It's Disney!!!!! Ditto!

4. It's short!!!!! A great way to laugh and smile in just 7 to 10 minutes!!!!!

5. It's a classic!!!!!

Yep, they have convinced me to like "Mickey's Trailer" very, very much!

10/10

I was obsessed with this cartoon when I was a child, and now that I have the new DVD box set "Mickey Mouse in Living Color," I can watch it every day! This is just filled to the brim with some of the funniest jokes Disney ever created. The animation is simply gorgeous, as it always was in this era of Disney Studios. 10/10.