Building a Building

Building a Building is a Mickey Mouse short that was released on December 20, 1932 for a limited run before its widespread release on January 7, 1933.
==Summary==
The film depicts Mickey Mouse working at a construction site under the supervision of Pete and Minnie Mouse singing a song called "Box Lunch" about selling box lunches to the workers. Mickey pays more attention to Minnie than to his work and causes several accidents that annoy Pete. Pete also flirts with Minnie, but she rejects him. When Mickey accidentally drops a load of bricks on Pete, the latter begins to strangle him, but the workers have their lunch break soon after. Mickey settles down to eat a fish sandwich, but it is stolen by Pete. Minnie offers Mickey a free box lunch, but Pete uses a crane to abduct her. 
Mickey chases after Pete, and finally fights him high up on the building. Minnie grabs a pan of red-hot rivets and drops them down Pete’s pants, which gives the mice enough time to flee as Pete pours water down his pants. In the process of chasing Mickey and Minnie, Pete has an anvil fall on his head and fires rivets at them with a handheld pneumatic hammer. This turns on him when the hammer falls into his pants and gets attached to his peg leg. The mice escape down a chute riding a wheelbarrow, while Pete falls into a cement mixer, and accidentally dismantles a large portion of the building. Enraged by the damage, Pete angrily fires Mickey, but the latter doesn't care as he immediately goes into business with Minnie selling box lunches.
==Characters==
*Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney)
*Pete (voiced by Pinto Colvig)
*Minnie Mouse (voiced by Marcellite Garner)
*Pluto (voiced by Pinto Colvig)
==Notes==
*This is a remake of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short Sky Scrappers.
*The "LUNCH!!!" call was later used in the 1945 Goofy cartoon Tiger Trouble and in the Mickey Mouse Works short Sandwich Makers.
*This short was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoon). It lost to Three Little Pigs.
*When iTunes began selling movies and shorts, this was one of the shorts made available on the service.
==Releases==
===Television===
*The Mickey Mouse Club, October 10, 1955
*The Mouse Factory, episode #2.19: "Homes"
*Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #13
*Donald's Quack Attack, episode #66
===Home video===
VHS
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions - How the Best Was Won: 1933-60
Laserdisc
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions - How the Best Was Won: 1933-60
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Here's Mickey
*Mickey Mouse: The Black and White Years - Volume One
*Mickey Mouse: A Star is Born
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Mickey and Company
DVD
*Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White
*Vintage Mickey
===Streaming===
*Disney+, July 7, 2023
==Gallery==
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==Video game appearances==
*Building a Building is an area in the Timeless River world in Kingdom Hearts II. Other shorts that are featured as areas of that world are Steamboat Willie, Gulliver Mickey, Mickey's Orphans, and The Fire Fighters.
*One of the projector transition levels in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two is based on this cartoon.
*This cartoon serves as the inspiration for one of the minigames in the Classic Kingdom games in Kingdom Hearts III.
==References==
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Category:Animated shorts
Category:Mickey Mouse shorts
Category:Minnie Mouse shorts
Category:Disney films
Category:1933 shorts
Category:Epic Mickey transition levels
Category:Pete Shorts
Category:Pluto shorts
Category:Kingdom Hearts locations
Category:Academy Award nominated films
Category:1932 shorts