Mickey Mouse conducts an orchestra, while the rest of the Disney menagerie of the era provides a dance recital, with Horace Horsecollar as stage manager, and Pluto continually sneaking on stage.

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Besides tweaks made to the bears’ appearances in those initial years, which is not unusual in the realm of cartoon characters (“If you look, for instance, at early Mickey Mouse cartoons, they ...