He battles rain and snow, but his biggest battle is against Pete, who has a plane equipped with a machine gun and a harpoon cannon.
The Mail Pilot is no exception, featuring some fantastic animation to compliment a simple but fun plot.įrom Ryan Kilpatrick at The Disney Film Project : I know I’ve said it a million times already, but Disney hit its stride with Mickey Mouse in late 1932, and all of the 1933 shorts have kept that going.Mickey the mail pilot is entrusted with a chest of money. This one features Mickey as a pilot carrying an important package, looking to avoid the mail bandit Pete. Of course, that doesn’t happen, and the two battle it out in the skies, using their planes to fight high and low. Our hero ends up winning, and delivers the package as required as well as turning Pete over to the authorities.
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The animation in The Mail Pilot is outstanding, not just getting us from point A to point B, or plodding along from side to side, but taking dynamic angles, shooting the camera straight on at Mickey flying in the rain, looking up or down at the planes in flight and making sure to keep the action in full focus. #The mail pilot 1933 original titles full# This is probably the most dynamic of the Mickey shorts in quite some time, for that reason. This features Mickey as the dashing hero, a role he has not played since his earliest appearances. Certainly, he gets menaced and is the underdog, but he resorts to quick thinking, trying to make his downed plane into a helicopter with a jury-rigged clothesline or taking the propeller off a windmill to power his plane. There’s also a bit of the romantic, as Mickey has a picture of Minnie with him in the plane. It’s a bit of a prescient piece, as this is still 6 years before World War II, when many American men would be in planes with pictures of their sweethearts. Here, it’s a simple gag, but Minnie’s picture gives Mickey the strength to push forward. The gags here are pretty darn good as well, including the ways Mickey makes his plane keep going that I mentioned before. There’s also some great gags like Pete being dragged through a church steeple and then to the ground, having the church bells wrapped around him as he clanks his way into a mail bag to be captured. I think The Mail Pilot might be my new favorite of 1933.
Disney found a formula that works with Mickey in the 1932-33 era, and it makes me pretty happy just to be watching the greatness.While working various jobs, Saint-Exupéry began to write stories inspired by his experiences as a pilot.Ĭonsidering I’ve said that about three times now, it shows you how high the quality of these shorts is. He published his first work, “The Aviator,” in 1926, the same year that he returned to flying as a mail pilot with the aviation company Aéropostale in Toulouse, covering routes between France, Spain and North Africa. The remainder of Saint-Exupéry’s life would be defined by the intertwining of his dual occupations as aviator and author, with the former providing the inspiration for his literary work. In 1927, Saint-Exupéry was placed in charge of an airfield in the Sahara. His experiences there informed his first novel, Southern Mail, which celebrated the courage of pilots, and was published in 1929. His similarly themed Night Flight was published in 1931 after he returned from a two-year posting in Argentina, where he had helped to establish an air mail system. Night Flight would become his first true literary success, receiving the Prix Femina literary prize and later being adapted into a 1933 Hollywood film starring John Barrymore, Helen Hayes and Clark Gable. However, from a literary perspective, his most important work during this period was the children’s fable for adults, The Little Prince. The poetic and mystical tale of a pilot stranded in the desert and his conversation with a young prince from another planet, it was written and illustrated by Saint-Exupéry and published in both French and English in the United States in 1943, and later in more than 200 other languages.
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