Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This is 2 out of 3 videos from the “Saint Patrick Star Week!”

So do any of you remember those Mickey Mouse cartoons from the 1930s? The ones that were just put on DVD a few years ago? Well, I hear there's one that was unreleased to even the most avid classic Disney fans.

According to sources, it's nothing special, just a continuous loop (like The Flintstones) of Mickey walking past six buildings that goes on for two or three minutes before fading out. Unlike the cutesy tunes usually put in, though, the song in this cartoon was not a song at all, just constant banging on a piano for a minute and a half before switching to white noise for the remainder of the film.

It wasn't the jolly old mouse we've come to love, either. Mickey wasn't dancing or smiling; he was just kind of walking like you or me with a normal, slightly dismal facial expression and his head tilted to the side.

Up until a year or two ago, everyone believed that after the film cut to black, that was it. When Leonard Maltin was reviewing the cartoon to decide whether it belonged in the complete series, he decided it was too junk to be on the DVD, but wanted to have a digital copy due to the fact that it was an original creation of Walt. Once he'd created a digitized version on his computer and looked at the file, he noticed something. The cartoon was actually 9 minutes and 4 seconds long.