Today’s Silly Symphony is a mash-up (before there was such a term as “mash-up”). In this 1936 short, directed by David Hand, Disney combines Three Blind Mice and The Three Musketeers to an oddly satisfying end. While these characters don’t appear in another short, Disney would revisit the Musketeers story in a live-action film in 1993, and in a long-form animated film in 2004 starring Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. And of course, the members of the Mickey Mouse Club would be referred to as Mouseketeers.
