The Sleepwalker (1942 film)

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The Sleepwalker
Pluto is walking in his sleep.
Directed byClyde Geronimi
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringPinto Colvig
Music byLeigh Harline
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
July 3, 1942 (USA)
Running time
7 min (one reel)
LanguageEnglish

The Sleepwalker is a cartoon starring Mickey's dog Pluto. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures in 1942.[1] The short marks the debut of Dinah the Dachshund, who later appears (with a design change) in Canine Casanova (1945), In Dutch (1946), Pluto's Heart Throb (1950) and Wonder Dog (1950), becoming Pluto's recurring love interest.[2]

Plot

Pluto is seen, happily sleeping while licking his bone. Dinah the Dachshund (in her first cartoon appearance), watching from a hole in a fence also wants the bone too, so she closes up and carefully pulls Pluto's bowl which contains the bone away from him and to herself. Pluto's tongue detects that the bone is gone before he wakes up and is shocked to see that Dinah is licking his bone. Furious, Pluto chases after Dinah through the neighbourhood starts sleepwalking and, while in this state, gives his bone to Dinah the Dachshund, but every time he wakes up, he cannot seem to understand how Dinah got a hold of his bone and wants it back.

Voice cast

Releases

Home media

The short was released on December 7, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto: 1930-1947.[3]

Additional releases include:

References

  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 119–120. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
  2. ^ Grant, John (1998). Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters (2nd ed.). Hyperion. p. 42. ISBN 978-0786863365.
  3. ^ "The Complete Pluto Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 19 February 2021.

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