Motor Mania

{{Infobox film

| name = Motor Mania

| image = Motormaniaposter.jpg

| caption = Poster

| director = Jack Kinney

| story = Dick Kinney
Milt Schaffer

| animator = John Sibley
Charles Nichols
Ed Aardal
Jack Boyd

| layout_artist = Al Zinnen

| background_artist = Claude Coats

| music = Paul J. Smith

| starring = Bob Jackman
John McLeish

| producer = Walt Disney

| studio = Walt Disney Productions

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1950|06|30}}

| country = United States

| color_process = Technicolor

| runtime = 7 minutes (one reel)

| language = English

}}

Motor Mania is a cartoon released by Walt Disney Productions on June 30, 1950.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/86/mode/2up |pages=86–87}} In this short, Goofy is a Mr. Hyde-type split personality, who gets behind the wheel and shows the dangers of not driving safely.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |title=The Disney Films |date=1984 |publisher=Crown Publishers |isbn=0-517-55407-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/disneyfilms00malt/page/312 312] |edition=2nd |url=https://archive.org/details/disneyfilms00malt |url-access=registration |access-date=16 February 2020}}

Plot

The cartoon shows how the character, as the pleasant, friendly, and good-natured "Mr. Walker" who "wouldn't hurt a fly nor step on an ant", undergoes a Jekyll-and-Hyde-like change in personality to the violent "Mr. Wheeler, motorist" when he gets behind the wheel of his yellow car. As Mr. Walker, pedestrian, he's polite, safe, and good-natured while as Mr. Wheeler; he is very mean, reckless, and predatory. Upon reaching his destination in town (he apparently only wanted to buy a newspaper) and leaving his automobile, he reverts to the mild-mannered Mr. Walker, whereupon he is the victim of other motorists' unsafe (and sometimes even predatory) driving habits. However, once he returns to his car, he becomes Mr. Wheeler, motorist, again, seeking to impose his own will upon traffic, to the point of blaming the tow truck which hauls him away for his slow pace after his own auto accident, and breaks the fourth wall by telling the narrator, "Ah, shut up!"

Home media

The short was released on December 2, 2002, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy.{{cite web |title=The Complete Goofy DVD Review|url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/completegoofy.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=20 February 2021}}

Voice cast

Mr. Walker/Mr. Wheeler: Bob Jackman
Narrator: John McLeish

References

Category:1950 films

Category:1950s Disney animated short films

Category:Goofy (Disney) short films

Category:Films directed by Jack Kinney

Category:Films produced by Walt Disney

Category:Films scored by Paul Smith (composer)

Category:Animated films about automobiles

Category:1950s English-language films

Category:English-language short films

Category:1950 animated short films