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The Barnyard Concert
The Barnyard Concert is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on April 5, 1930, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the seventeenth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the second of that year.
Due to being published in 1930, the cartoon entered the public domain on January 1, 2026.
Mickey Mouse conducts an orchestral performance on the farm, with an orchestra of cats, dogs, horses, cows, pigs and goats. They play the overture from Franz von Suppé's Poet and Peasant at Mickey's direction. Some of the animals find themselves in conflict—a dog's tuba playing disturbs a pig's toupee, and a goat spanks another pig with his violin bow. Mickey creates music by pulling the tails of baby pigs, and a horse plays drums on the rear end of a cow. At the end of the short, Mickey—tired of being hassled by a cow's tail—ties the tail to a bucket of water, and the cow upends the bucket on Mickey's head. Mickey shivers and whimpers as the concert comes to an end.
This is the first cartoon to include a horse and a cow that would soon evolve into Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow, two members of Mickey's early supporting cast. Neither animal has lines, or the costumes that they would later adopt, but the resemblance is clear. The film has no dialogue.
Some of the animation in this short was reused in the 1931 short The Castaway.
Mickey would return to the music of Franz von Suppé in 1942's Symphony Hour, when he conducts the Light Cavalry Overture.
According to Gijs Gorb in Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse: "Unfortunately, at this stage, the animators still had problems with Mickey's eyes: in one close-up in particular they are placed awkwardly in his face. In a few other scenes, Mickey still is very bland. His best moments are when he's confronted by a pig repeatedly playing a wrong note on the trumpet and when he gets dragged around by a cow's tail."
It has been noted that this cartoon is an early example of the cinematic cliche of a conductor tapping his baton on the music stand to indicate to the orchestra that the song is about to begin, an action which never happens in actual concert performing. Mickey performs the action again when he plays a conductor in 1935's The Band Concert.
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The Barnyard Concert
The Barnyard Concert is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on April 5, 1930, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series. It was the seventeenth Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the second of that year.
Due to being published in 1930, the cartoon entered the public domain on January 1, 2026.
Mickey Mouse conducts an orchestral performance on the farm, with an orchestra of cats, dogs, horses, cows, pigs and goats. They play the overture from Franz von Suppé's Poet and Peasant at Mickey's direction. Some of the animals find themselves in conflict—a dog's tuba playing disturbs a pig's toupee, and a goat spanks another pig with his violin bow. Mickey creates music by pulling the tails of baby pigs, and a horse plays drums on the rear end of a cow. At the end of the short, Mickey—tired of being hassled by a cow's tail—ties the tail to a bucket of water, and the cow upends the bucket on Mickey's head. Mickey shivers and whimpers as the concert comes to an end.
This is the first cartoon to include a horse and a cow that would soon evolve into Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle Cow, two members of Mickey's early supporting cast. Neither animal has lines, or the costumes that they would later adopt, but the resemblance is clear. The film has no dialogue.
Some of the animation in this short was reused in the 1931 short The Castaway.
Mickey would return to the music of Franz von Suppé in 1942's Symphony Hour, when he conducts the Light Cavalry Overture.
According to Gijs Gorb in Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse: "Unfortunately, at this stage, the animators still had problems with Mickey's eyes: in one close-up in particular they are placed awkwardly in his face. In a few other scenes, Mickey still is very bland. His best moments are when he's confronted by a pig repeatedly playing a wrong note on the trumpet and when he gets dragged around by a cow's tail."
It has been noted that this cartoon is an early example of the cinematic cliche of a conductor tapping his baton on the music stand to indicate to the orchestra that the song is about to begin, an action which never happens in actual concert performing. Mickey performs the action again when he plays a conductor in 1935's The Band Concert.
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