Bone Trouble
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{{Infobox film
| name = Bone Trouble
| image = Bone Trouble.jpg
| caption = Promotional poster
| director = Jack Kinney
| producer = Walt Disney
| music = Frank Churchill
Paul J. Smith
| story = Carl Barks
| animator = John Lounsbery
Reuben Timmins
Norm Ferguson
Jack Gayek
Art Fitzpatrick
| starring = Lee Millar
Clarence Nash
| studio = Walt Disney Productions
| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1940|06|28}}
| color_process = Technicolor
| runtime = 8:44
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Bone Trouble is a 1940 animated short produced by Walt Disney, and directed by Jack Kinney.{{Cite book |last=Lenburg |first=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |pages=120–121}} It stars Pluto and Butch the Bulldog, in the latter's first appearance.{{Cite web |title=Bone Trouble (1940) – Pluto Theatrical Cartoon Series |url=https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5377-Bone-Trouble |access-date=September 8, 2022 |website=The Big Cartoon DataBase}}{{dead link|date=January 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Plot
The short begins with Pluto waking up in his dog house. Pluto is hungry, but birds have eaten his dish. He hears snoring over the nextdoor fence. Butch the Bulldog, who is sleeping nearby, has a bone which Pluto attempts to steal without awakening him. Pluto has to sneak past trees and tires to reach to the bone. After a couple of attempts, he successfully steals it. Before Pluto can enjoy the bone, an angry Butch shows up, having awoken some time before. A surprised Pluto takes the bone and Butch chases him.
Butch chases Pluto through town and into a deserted carnival. They go through the Tunnel of Love ride where Pluto reverses the chase. Butch loses sight of Pluto when Pluto goes into a hall of mirrors. In each mirror, Pluto sees a reflection of himself shaped like a different animal. Pluto has fun with the mirrors until he sees Butch again. Pluto takes advantage of one set of mirrors to successfully scare Butch off. He winks at his reflections and goes off with the bone.
Production
The story was written by Carl Barks, who was soon to become a prolific and popular Disney comics artist and writer. This story partly inspired Barks' first Disney comics story, Pluto Saves the Ship, in 1942.{{Cite book |last=Andrae |first=Thomas |title=Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity |date=2006 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-57806-858-6 |page=292}}
Cast
- Lee Millar as Pluto
- Clarence Nash as Butch
Releases
- 1940 – theatrical release
Home media
The short was released on December 7, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto: 1930–1947.{{Cite web |title=The Complete Pluto Volume 1 DVD Review |url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/pluto1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321203048/https://www.dvdizzy.com/pluto1.html |archive-date=March 21, 2021 |access-date=19 February 2021 |website=DVD Dizzy}} It was released to Disney+ between September 5 and 8, 2023.{{cite web|url=https://d23.com/disney-to-debut-28-restored-classic-walt-disney-animation-studios-shorts/|title=Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts|author=The D23 Team|work=D23|date=June 19, 2023|accessdate=June 19, 2023}}
Additional releases include:
- 2002 – Old Yeller DVD
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0032269}}
- {{Letterboxd title | Bone Trouble}}
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Category:1940s Disney animated short films
Category:American animated short films
Category:Animated films without speech
Category:Films directed by Jack Kinney
Category:Films produced by Walt Disney
Category:Films scored by Frank Churchill
Category:Films scored by Paul Smith (composer)
Category:Films with screenplays by Carl Barks
Category:Pluto (Disney) short films
Category:RKO Pictures animated short films