The Picnic (1930 film)

The Picnic
The Picnic
Directed by	Burt Gillett
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Walt Disney; Marcellite Garner; Lee Millar
Production; company	Walt Disney Studios
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	October 9, 1930;
Running time	7:02
Country	United States
Language	English

The Picnic is a 1930 American animated short film directed by Burt Gillett and produced by Walt Disney.^[2] It was first released on October 9, 1930, as part of the Mickey Mouse film series.^[3] It was the twenty-third Mickey Mouse short to be produced, the eighth of that year.^[4]

The cartoon is notable as the first appearance of a pet dog called "Rover", an early version of a character that was renamed Pluto six months later, in the April 1931 cartoon The Moose Hunt.

^ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
^ "The Picnic (1930) - SFdb". Sweden: Swedish Film Database, Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
^ Grob, Gijs (2018). "The Picnic". Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse. Theme Park Press. ISBN 978-1683901235.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

[ultimate-1] Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.

[2] "The Picnic (1930) - SFdb". Sweden: Swedish Film Database, Swedish Film Institute. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[movies-3] Grob, Gijs (2018). "The Picnic". Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse. Theme Park Press. ISBN 978-1683901235.

[4] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 108–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

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