Motor Mania
Motor Mania is a cartoon released by Walt Disney Productions on June 30, 1950.[1] In this short, Goofy is cast as a Mr. Hyde-type split personality, when he gets behind the wheel and shows how to not drive safely.[2]
| Motor Mania | |
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 Motor Mania poster. | |
| Directed by | Jack Kinney |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Story by | Dick Kinney Milt Schaffer |
| Starring | Pinto Colvig John McLeish |
| Music by | Paul J. Smith |
| Animation by | John Sibley Charles Nichols Ed Aardal Jack Boyd |
| Layouts by | Al Zinnen |
| Backgrounds by | Claude Coats |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date | June 30, 1950 (USA) |
Running time | 7 min (one reel) |
| Language | English |
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 change in personality to the violent "Mr. Wheeler" when he gets behind the wheel of his yellow car. The car is a yellow Lincoln-Zephyr convertible. As Mr. Walker he's polite, safe, and good-natured while as Mr. Wheeler; he is very mean, reckless, and predatory. Upon reaching his destination in town (we are not shown the character's reason for traveling) 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 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, while educating him (and the fourth wall) on safe driving habits with, "Ah, shut up!"
Voice cast
- Goofy: Pinto Colvig
- Narrator: John McLeish
References
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 86–87. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- Maltin, Leonard (1984). The Disney Films (2nd ed.). Crown Publishers. p. 312. ISBN 0-517-55407-0. Retrieved 16 February 2020.