
The Mail Pilot
A cheerful, slapstick-driven animated short where Mickey's ingenuity and optimism triumph over a villainous air pirate through escalating absurd improvisation.
Mickey the mail pilot is entrusted with a chest of money. He battles rain and snow, but his biggest battle is against Pete, who has a plane equipped with a machine gun and a harpoon cannon. Mickey's plane quickly loses its wings and propeller to Pete's armaments, but he improvises a helicopter blade with a clothes-drying rack, then, when that gives way, a replacement prop from a windmill.
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