The next one to watch in the Disney Plus "shorts" section was this 1948 Pluto story that was a bit better than some of the other ones I've watched from a similar period.
Pluto (James MacDonald) decides that he needs a bone from the stash he's got buried in Mickey's Garden. He discovers that a gopher has been digging underneath the garden and utilising his bones as support struts. Though with an obvious physical advantage, Pluto's attempts are regularly thwarted by his allergies to the plant that is currently in bloom.
I did find the relationship between Pluto and the Gopher to be an interesting one. They're not quite Pro/An tagonist in their interactions, certainly nothing like the same way that Donald and Chip n Dale would prove to be, perhaps because you need a pompous character to be foiled like this for it to be funny, and Pluto is essentially a regular dog. I also found it interesting that Mickey would grow a plant that Pluto is allergic too, seems like a jerk move.
I thought this looked pretty good. By 1948 we've advanced a little further than the basic animation of some of the earlier ones. I particularly liked the side on views that we see, with a cut out of the ground so we can see exactly how the gopher is using the bones in his construction.
It's only seven minutes long, so there's isn't a lot to make much of a decision about, but of the shorts from this era that I've watched so far, this was one of the better ones.
