Symphony Hour

I loved Symphony Hour when I was a kid, and I have had trouble finding it. Finding it on YouTube after five or so years brought all those memories back. The concept of Symphony Hour has Mickey Mouse conducting a radio orchestra with a performance of the popular Light Calvary overture by Franz Von Suppe. It is loved by the sponsor in rehearsal, but after the instruments are crushed in a lift, it falls downhill from there. Along with the Band Concert and Mickey's Good Deed, this ranks as one of the best Mickey Mouse shorts. The music was outstanding of course, but what was even more impressive were the wonderful Technicolour animation, a nice script, expert voice acting from Florence Gill, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash and Pinto Colvig and some truly sublimely hilarious moments. Anything said or done by Pete or Donald is bound to bring you tears of laughter, and Madame Clara Cluck shines in the few seconds of screen time she has. Like Band Concert, symphony Hour is very special to me, and I hope that people now will recognise it as the classic it really is. A definite 10/10 Bethany Cox