Lend a Paw

Lend a Paw
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Clyde Geronimi Assisted by: Don A. Duckwall (uncredited)
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Teddy Barr Walt Disney John Dehner John McLeish Marcellite Garner
Music by	Leigh Harline
Animation by	Uncredited character animation: George Nicholas Kenneth Muse Nick Nichols William Sturm Eric Gurney Norman Tate Chick Otterstrom Morey Reden Emery Hawkins
Layouts by	Uncredited: Bruce Bushman
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	October 3, 1941 (1941-10-03) [1]
Running time	8:12
Country	United States
Language	English

Lend a Paw is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and released to theaters on October 3, 1941. Lend a Paw was directed by Clyde Geronimi and features original music by Leigh Harline. George Nicholas, Kenneth Muse, Nick Nichols, William Sturm, Eric Gurney, Norman Tate, Chick Otterstrom, Morey Reden, and Emery Hawkins animated the film. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey and Teddy Barr as Pluto.^[2] It was the 115th short in the Mickey Mouse film series to be released, and the sixth for that year.^[3]

In the cartoon, which was largely a remake of the 1933 short Mickey's Pal Pluto, Pluto saves the life of a kitten, and later feels jealous towards the kitten after Mickey Mouse takes the kitten in. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 14th Academy Awards in 1942, the only Mickey Mouse short to win the award.