Bone Trouble

Bone Trouble
Bone Trouble
	Promotional poster
Directed by	Jack Kinney
Story by	Carl Barks
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Lee Millar; Clarence Nash
Music by	Frank Churchill; Paul J. Smith
Animation by	John Lounsbery; Rueben Timmins; Norm Ferguson; Jack Gayek; Art Fitzpatrick
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	June 28, 1940;
Running time	8:44
Country	United States

Bone Trouble is a 1940 animated short produced by Walt Disney, and directed by Jack Kinney.^[1] It stars Pluto and Butch the Bulldog, in the latter's first appearance.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4] It was released to Disney+ between September 5 and 8, 2023.^[5]

Additional releases include:

2002 – Old Yeller DVD

References

^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 120–121. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
^ "Bone Trouble (1940) – Pluto Theatrical Cartoon Series". The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved September 8, 2022.^{[dead link]}
^ Andrae, Thomas (2006). Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity. University Press of Mississippi. p. 292. ISBN 978-1-57806-858-6.
^ "The Complete Pluto Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Archived from the original on March 21, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
^ The D23 Team (June 19, 2023). "Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts". D23. Retrieved June 19, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

External links

Bone Trouble at IMDb
Trouble/ Bone Trouble at Letterboxd

[1] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 120–121. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.

[2] "Bone Trouble (1940) – Pluto Theatrical Cartoon Series". The Big Cartoon DataBase. Retrieved September 8, 2022.^{[dead link]}

[3] Andrae, Thomas (2006). Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity. University Press of Mississippi. p. 292. ISBN 978-1-57806-858-6.

[4] "The Complete Pluto Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Archived from the original on March 21, 2021. Retrieved February 19, 2021.

[5] The D23 Team (June 19, 2023). "Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts". D23. Retrieved June 19, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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