Fiddling Around

Fiddling Around, also known as Just Mickey, is a Mickey Mouse short that was released on March 21, 1930.
==Synopsis==
Mickey Mouse faces an unseen audience and a heckler as he earnestly plays several music pieces.
==Character==
*Mickey Mouse (voiced by Walt Disney)
==Songs==
*"Traumerei"
*"Hungarian Dance No. 5"
*"William Tell Overture"
==Summary==
In a solo stage act, Mickey Mouse performs "Traumerei" and Brahms' Hungarian dance on the violin but during a sad song, he is soon overcome with emotion and has to stop. He leaves the stage still overwhelmed by emotions until he hears the off screen audience screaming for an encore. As an encore, he finishes with the finale to the William Tell Overture in a rousing (and ridiculously silly) violin performance.
==Releases==
===Television===
*Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #53
*The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.44: "Musical Mickey"
===Home video===
DVD
*Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Black and White, Volume 2
===Streaming===
*Disney+, October 6, 2023
==Trivia==
*The film's copyright was renewed on December 16, 1957.Catalog of Copyright Entries (1957 renewals)
*This is the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to be released by Columbia Pictures.
*This was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon not animated by Ub Iwerks.
*This short reuses the theme music from Wild Waves.
*An issue concerning this cartoon is whether the title of the short is Fiddling Around or Just Mickey. The former was copyrighted as such and was seen on the original theatrical poster, while the latter is its common title and it was shown on the recreated title card seen on the Walt Disney Treasures DVD release, Mickey Mouse In Black And White: Volume 2, as no original release print with the title had yet surfaced. In 2009, David Gerstein uncovered an original 1930 release print which shows the title as Fiddling Around, implying that Just Mickey was a working title.
*This is the first time the William Tell Overture is featured in a Mickey Mouse cartoon. The piece was later performed in the 1935 cartoon, The Band Concert.
==Gallery==
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==References==
Category:Animated shorts
Category:Mickey Mouse shorts
Category:1930 shorts