Three Blind Mouseketeers

1936 American film

Three Blind Mouseketeers

Directed by|

* Dave Hand
* Jack Cutting

Written by|

* Webb Smith
* Merrill de Maris
* Otto Englander

Produced by| Walt Disney
Starring|

* Billy Bletcher
* (Captain Katt)

Music by| Albert Hay Malotte

Production
company

Walt Disney Productions

Distributed by| United Artists

Release date

* September 26, 1936 (1936-09-26)

Running time

| 8 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

Three Blind Mouseketeers is a Silly Symphonies cartoon based on the nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice and the 1844 novel The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas. Directed by Dave Hand and Jack Cutting, it stars Billy Bletcher.[1]

## Plot

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The three blind mice are disguised as musketeers in a cellar. Captain Cat (the devious cat) sets a number of traps for the mice and goes to sleep. The mice come out to search for food, avoiding all the traps. When they uncork three bottles of wine, the corks hit Captain Cat on the nose. Captain Cat wakes up and starts chasing the mice, only ending up trapping one mouse, who starts asking for help from the other two mice reflecting on numerous bottles. Captain Cat thinks he is surrounded by mice and runs away, falling into a multitude of traps that he has prepared himself.

## Voice cast

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* Tall Mouseketeer: Pinto Colvig
* Captain Katt: Billy Bletcher
* Other two Mouseketeers: Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney

## Syndication

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The cartoon was aired on Good Morning, Mickey! on the Disney Channel.

## Home media

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The short has been released on home media several times. The first time was on a VHS release in 1985 on Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: The Disney Dream Factory: 1933-1938, then in the UK on VHS on Storybook Favourites Shorts: Three Little Pigs.

Its first DVD release was in 2003 on The Rescuers, followed on December 19, 2006, on Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two.[1] It was also released on Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 2: Three Little Pigs in 2009 and on The Rescuers 35th Anniversary Edition (The Rescuers/The Rescuers Down Under) in 2012.

## References

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1. ^ a b Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016). Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series (2nd ed.). Glendale, CA: Disney Editions. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-1-4847-5132-9.

## External links

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* Three Blind Mouseketeers at IMDb
* The cartoon on YouTube
* The encyclopedia of Disney animated shorts

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The d'Artagnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas

* The Three Musketeers
* Twenty Years After
* The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later

Characters|

* Athos
* Aramis
* Porthos
* d'Artagnan
* Cardinal Richelieu
* Milady de Winter
* Rochefort
* Buckingham
* Queen Anne
* Louis XIII
* Louis XIV
* de Tréville

Films|

| The Three
Musketeers|

* The Three Musketeers (1916)
* Les Trois Mousquetaires (1921)
* The Three Musketeers (1921)
* The Three Musketeers (1932)
* The Three Musketeers (1933)
* The Three Musketeers (1935)
* The Three Musketeers (1939)
* The Three Musketeers (1942)
* The Three Musketeers (1946)
* The Three Musketeers (1948)
* Blades of the Musketeers (1953)
* The Three Musketeers (1953)
* The Three Musketeers (1961)
* The Three Musketeers (1973)
* The Four Musketeers (1974)
* The Three Musketeers (1993)
* The Musketeer (2001)
* The Three Musketeers (2011)
* 3 Musketeers (2011)
* The Three Musketeers (2013)
* The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023)
* The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023)

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Twenty Years
After|

* The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
* Musketeers Twenty Years After (1992)

The Vicomte of
Bragelonne|

* The Iron Mask (1929)
* The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
* Uthama Puthiran (1940)
* Lady in the Iron Mask (1952)
* The Count of Bragelonne (1954)
* The King's Prisoner (1954)
* Uthama Puthiran (1958)
* Le Masque de fer (1962)
* The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
* The Secret of Queen Anne or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993)
* The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)

Other sequels|

* At Sword's Point (1952)
* The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962)
* Revenge of the Musketeers (1994)
* The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009)

Animated|

* The Four Musketeers (1936)
* Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936)
* The Three Musketeers (1974)
* Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004)
* Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009)
* Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (2021)

Tom and Jerry|

* The Two Mouseketeers
* Touché, Pussy Cat!
* Tom and Chérie
* Royal Cat Nap

Television|

| Series|

| Live-action|

* The Three Musketeers (1954)
* The Three Musketeers (1966)
* The Mind Robber (1968)
* d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978)
* Young Blades (2005)
* The Three Musketeers (2009–10) (puppetry)
* The Musketeers (2014)

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Animated|

* The Three Musketeers (1968)
* Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds (1981)
* The Three Musketeers Anime (1987–89)
* The Return of Dogtanian (1989)
* Albert the Fifth Musketeer (1993–94)

Films|

| Live-action|

* The Three Musketeers (1959)
* The Three Musketeers (1969)
* The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
* La Femme Musketeer (2004)

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Animated|

* The Three Musketeers (1973)
* The Man in the Iron Mask (1985)
* Dogtanian: Special (1985)
* The Three Musketeers (1986)
* Dogtanian: One For All and All For One (1995)

Games|

* Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
* The Three Musketeers (1987 video game)
* The Three Musketeers (2006 video game)
* The Three Musketeers: One for All!

Musicals|

* The Three Musketeers (1928)
* 3 Musketiers

Other
adaptations|

* The Three Mesquiteers
* Dog in Boots
* The Three Must-Get-Theres
* The Three Mouseketeers (comics)
* The Three Musketeers (South Korean adaptation)
* Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (video game)

Khaavren Romances|

* The Phoenix Guards
* Five Hundred Years After
* The Viscount of Adrilankha
* The Baron of Magister Valley

Related|

* Auguste Maquet (collaborator)
* A Modern Musketeer
* The Three Muscatels
* Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno
* Man in the Iron Mask
* Musketeers of the Guard
* 3 Musketeers (chocolate bar)

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Silly Symphony film series

1929|

* The Skeleton Dance
* El Terrible Toreador
* Springtime
* Hell's Bells
* The Merry Dwarfs

1930|

* Summer
* Autumn
* Cannibal Capers
* Frolicking Fish
* Arctic Antics
* Midnight in a Toy Shop
* Night
* Monkey Melodies
* Winter
* Playful Pan

1931|

* Birds of a Feather
* Mother Goose Melodies
* The China Plate
* The Busy Beavers
* The Cat's Out
* Egyptian Melodies
* The Clock Store
* The Spider and the Fly
* The Fox Hunt
* The Ugly Duckling

1932|

* The Bird Store
* The Bears and the Bees
* Just Dogs
* Flowers and Trees
* King Neptune
* Bugs in Love
* Babes in the Woods
* Santa's Workshop

1933|

* Birds in the Spring
* Father Noah's Ark
* Three Little Pigs
* Old King Cole
* Lullaby Land
* The Pied Piper
* The Night Before Christmas

1934|

* The China Shop
* The Grasshopper and the Ants
* Funny Little Bunnies
* The Big Bad Wolf
* The Wise Little Hen
* The Flying Mouse
* Peculiar Penguins
* The Goddess of Spring

1935|

* The Tortoise and the Hare
* The Golden Touch
* The Robber Kitten
* Water Babies
* The Cookie Carnival
* Who Killed Cock Robin?
* Music Land
* Three Orphan Kittens
* Cock o' the Walk
* Broken Toys

1936|

* Elmer Elephant
* Three Little Wolves
* Toby Tortoise Returns
* Three Blind Mouseketeers
* The Country Cousin
* Mother Pluto
* More Kittens

1937|

* Woodland Café
* Little Hiawatha
* The Old Mill

1938|

* Moth and the Flame
* Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
* Farmyard Symphony
* Merbabies
* Mother Goose Goes Hollywood

1939|

* The Practical Pig
* The Ugly Duckling

Related|

* Donald Duck
* Comic strip
* Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics
* Bucky Bug
* "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
* The Thrifty Pig
* Mickey Mouse Works
* Once Upon a Studio
* Disney Magic Kingdoms

* Category

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* t
* e

Films directed by David Hand

* Building a Building (1933)
* The Mad Doctor (1933)
* Birds in the Spring (1933)
* The Mail Pilot (1933)
* Old King Cole (1933)
* Camping Out (1934)
* Mickey's Steam Roller (1934)
* The Flying Mouse (1934)
* The Dognapper (1934)
* Mickey's Man Friday (1935)
* Mickey's Kangaroo (1935)
* The Robber Kitten (1935)
* Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)
* Pluto's Judgement Day (1935)
* Three Orphan Kittens (1935)
* Mickey's Polo Team (1936)
* Three Little Wolves (1936)
* Thru the Mirror (1936)
* Alpine Climbers (1936)
* Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936)
* Mickey's Elephant (1936)
* The Country Cousin (1936)
* Mother Pluto (1936)
* More Kittens (1936)
* Magician Mickey (1937)
* Little Hiawatha (1937)
* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
* Moth and the Flame (1938)
* The Whalers (1938)
* Fantasia (1940)
* Bambi (1942)
* Mickey Mouse Disco (1980)

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