1935 Movie Project: The Talent Show

Mickey, Minnie, Donald, needs fruit and the fruit tree that they normally get the fruit from is no longer there. They see a poster for a talent show, and to their surprise the winner of the talent show gets a big basket of fruit. So by working together, the friends join the show and they sing and dance and they think that they might lose. But, they win just by a landslide and they get to take the fruit to their tree house and they enjoy the fruit together as pals. This movie would have worked well in 1935, because there was still the Great Depression going on, and the children especially needed

something to make them happy and not feel so down about their situation and/or just keep them occupied and not getting into trouble. Also, the fact where people needed up building from their situation and they wanted hope and maybe a cartoon might have done the trick. There was no important message or underlying meaning behind this cartoon, the cartoon was made for kids and maybe even for people who has it rough and just needed a good laugh or cartoon to cheer up their situation. The genre is Animation and Kid-Friendly. We chose this genre because it was the easiest and the children would most likely find this cartoon amusing and they would really enjoy seeing something to liven up their day. We chose to do The Walt Disney Company to produce this movie because the cartoon characters that are being used, are from this specific company and we could not have used these cartoon characters and chosen MGM. For one, MGM did not produce cartoons and two they did not use these characters because they did not have the legal precedent from The Walt Disney Company to use these cartoons. This would be on a nationally scale and the scale would fit perfectly with the studio because Walt Disney Company was

well known then and they would have a better pay out in the end if it was shown nationally then shown just in local movie theaters. The cast and crew was an easy fit and find. The cast was the 4 original characters, that Walt Disney had created and they were easy and not too hard to find. The crew as well, to be honest not needed because this was a cartoon and really we did not need lightning technician or a stunt man because it was a cartoon. In reality all that was needed was a director and people to voice the characters which was Walt Disney to voice Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse voiced by Marcellite Garner and Donald Duck voiced by Clarence Nash. The Hays Code did and it did not effect our movie because it is a cartoon and in cartoons there is no violence or bad language. However, on the flip side it did effect our movie because, even if we wanted to choose a movie where

there is violence and some bad language we could not because that was against the Hays Code. The technology we are using is Technicolor because instead of just doing this cartoon in black and white, we chose to use color to make the movie more vibrant and the cartoon exciting. We were always going to do a cartoon, but we disagreed on what the whole story should be about. I think that if I were working alone, maybe I would have done like a little party or sleepover or something to celebrate about to make the kids happier and show that even they can have fun while living in their certain circumstances.