Mickey's Mellerdrammer
A frenetic 1933 animated short built on slapstick and sight gags, in which anthropomorphic animals stage a theatrical adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, marred by period-typical racial caricature.
Mickey Mouse and his friends stage their own production of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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