MICKEY'S MECHANICAL MAN

MICKEY'S MECHANICAL MAN. Wilfred Jackson, dir. USA: Walt Disney Productions (prod.) / United Artists (dist.), 1933. Walt Disney, John Sotherland, prod. Mickey Mouse voiced by W. Disney, Minnie by Marcellite Garner.

Cartoon. IMDb plot summary by Jon Reeves (reeves@imdb.com) says that "Mickey has built a robot to compete in the boxing ring against the giant gorilla, the Kongo Killer. Whenever it hears Minnie's car horn, it goes crazy and starts punching any picture of Killer that it sees, even if it's on a brick wall, thus hurting itself. Mickey manages to barely patch his robot together to take on Killer, but after some early success, it gets pummeled by the ape. Minnie fetches the car horn, which brings it back, and it trounces Killer, then flies apart." We cautiously call attention to the date of this cartoon, the conflict between US robot and "Kongo" gorilla, and a partial victory of high-tech, helped by low-tech and Minnie Mouse. Mentioned in Dan Scapperotti's coverage of RUNAWAY BRAIN (1995), Cinefantastique 28.11, page 8.