He does the famous Mickey Mouse giggle and says "Gosh, this is swell!" Apparently, there was also a talking Minnie Mouse but I never saw that one although I have since seen it advertised for sale on eBay. So he contacted the syndicate and they left it in."Ī flood of merchandise (most difficult to obtain today and sometimes even generally unknown to many collectors at the time) was unleashed in support of "The Perils of Mickey" marketing campaign in hopes of revitalizing Mickey Mouse as a vibrant heroic figure on his 65 th birthday.įor instance, I have in my collection a 5-inch tall talking PVC Mickey Mouse Mail Pilot figure that many of my friends never saw offered for sale. He thought it was a good adventure and was confident that we had a way of making the resolution of the peril humorous. I took the photostats to Walt and he just laughed. King Features sent us a frantic telegram that they were going to cut out the entire sequence because the alligators would upset women and children reading the newspaper. In a 1979 interview, cartoonist Gottfredson told me about the comic strip sequence that originally ran in late 1932/early 1933 that inspired that striking image, "There was one sequence where Mickey grabs a pole and vaults over this alligator pit but as he is leaping, the pole breaks.
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The main iconic image for the series was Mickey Mouse swinging on a rope over a pit of hungry green alligators with their mouths wide open that certainly referenced a sense of impending peril. Its formula inspired other similar films, television commercials, animated cartoons and much more.
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The phrase, of course, was meant to reference "The Perils of Pauline", the iconic cliffhanging silent movie serial where the heroine is constantly menaced by a variety of villains and dangers but escaping at the last minute. In 1993-1994 the Walt Disney Company launched an extensive branding campaign called "The Perils of Mickey" inspired by vintage Floyd Gottfredson comic strip art and stories from the 1930s.
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