As you can know in my previous blog about the song in Walt Disney Production: Cinderella, a song entitled Oh Sing Sweet Nightingale, there is a hidden mickey here. It’s clearly seen in bubble when Cinderella is mopping the floor (right before Lucifer the cat make it dirty again).
To make it clearer, I’ve captured it See below!
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If you have watched Cinderella, I’m sure that you know that Lady Tremaine wants her daughter to have talent in music. She is telling Anastasia to play flute and Drizella to sing.
The result?
Even their cat, Lucifer, hates it!
But Cinderella sings it beautifully while she’s doing her chores. With bubbles appears as Hidden Mickey in this movie, Cinderella sing sweet nightingale…
The words and lyrics in this movie are written by Mack David, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. Walt Disney uses Ilene Woods to voice Cinderella and Rhoda Williams as Drizella.
Here is the lyrics, and below you can watch the clip…
OH SING SWEET NIGHTINGALE
Oh, sing sweet nightingale Sing sweet nightingale High above me Sing sweet nightingale
High above Oh, sing sweet nightingale Sing sweet nightingale, high Oh sing sweet nightingale Sing sweet nightingale Sing sweet Oh, sing sweet nightingale, sing Oh, sing sweet nightingale Oh, sing sweet Oh, sing Oh, sing sweet nightingale Sing sweet nightingale High
"The song is copyrighted by Walt Disney Music Company (ASCAP)"
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We have seen Walt Disney’s the Three Musketeers. We all love it. But there are another things about it which I want you to know…
Enjoy…
an A113 (an inside joke present as Easter egg in animated films) is seen in the carriage. The carriage in which Mickey is captured has a licence plate that says “A-113″.
Pete also quotes part of Mickey Mouse March when he brings Mickey to the island prison. He says, “Hey there! Hi there! Ho there! You’re as welcome as can be!”
When Pete leaves Mickey to drown, Pete also states that he is going to stop a show which he likes to call I Just Can’t Wait to Be King (the same song as The Lion King’s song when Simba tries to escape from Zazu).
In this movie, we can find Minnie has a bang (a fringe of hair, cut to hang or curl over the forehead). It’s her first and only bang that Minnie has.
A hidden Mickey can be seen clearly when Donald and Goofy comes to rescue Mickey from drowning. When Mickey lets go of the breath, the bubbles float and make the forms of Mickey’s head (see pictures below).
Mickey and Donald use their own clothes in this movie (red pants for Mickey and blue sailor suit for Donald). We can see Mickey’s original suit when he is in a fight with the Beagle Boys and his original suit is under his uniform.
While Donald’s real suit can be seen when he refuses to save Minnie. Mickey says, “As long as we wear our uniforms, we have to protect Princess Minnie.” That makes Donald tear his own uniform and use his original suit. But then after he decides to help Mickey, he wears the uniform again.
The Beagle Boys are re-modeled, and they are not voiced by the usual voice actors. They are more greyish, and two of them has British accent instead of French.
The opera in this movie contains songs from the musical The Pirates of Penzance by Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert.
Do you want to hear the Goofy hooler in this movie? Don’t worry! Goofy and Clarabelle make it for you… Goofy hooler is a sound effect used frequently which shows Goofy’s cry when he is falling or being launched into the air. Bill Farmer, the current voice of Goofy, made the Goofy hooler in the Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy.
The part when Donald Duck says to Pete, “How’s this for a coward?” and poked him in the eyes was edited and removed when this movie was aired on Disney Channel and Toon Disney.
The film is adapted into a comic The Three Musketeers published by Gemstone Publishing. It shows a gag in the end when the Beagle Boys “Shorty” suggests to Pete that after they escape from the prison, they will rob the rich duck clan I heard about in Scotland.” Who is the duck they are talking about? Of course, they are talking about their everlasting rival, Mr. Scrooge McDuck.
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Walt Disney Works usually challenge their audience and fans with Hidden Mickeys.
What are Hidden Mickey?
Hidden Mickey is a formation of silhouette of Mickey’s head with his two ears, as the representation of Mickey Mouse. It is more like the trademark of Disney works. It’s always challenging to find Hidden Mickeys in the movie, Walt Disney World, or anything.
It’s sometimes formed as the head of Mickey, but sometimes it also appears as the whole Mickey Mouse itself. Of course, that counts as Hidden Mickey. I’ll give you the examples from Lilo and Stitch. It appears near Lilo’s hand, as the fruits.
Sometimes, we can also find another Disney characters in a movie, either animation or anything. For example, we can find Nemo (Finding Nemo) in Brother Bear 2. It is not easy to see, sometimes we miss it, but if you can find it, it is fun, isn’t it? The form of not-Mickey is called as Hidden Jokes.
Besides on the movie, we also can find Hidden Mickey in comic strips. We can find a lot of Hidden Mickeys in Don Rosa’s comics. Don Rosa always puts Hidden Mickey in first pages of his story, plus, he also provide the notes D.U.C.K in the pictures (more about Don Rosa will be provided later).
Ready to find Hidden Mickeys? Don’t forget to share it with me!