The Fire Fighters
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Mickey and others are firemen; they slide down an ostrich’s neck when the alarm sounds. A squealing cat whose tail Mickey pulls acts as the siren. The nearest hydrant isn’t working too well, so Horace Horsecollar takes drinks from a pond and uses that water to put out the fire. Minnie is trapped on an upper floor; Mickey climbs the neighboring building fire escape and uses a clothesline to cross to Minnie’s building.
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An early fire-brigade short where the equipment is all animals — the alarm is a cat, the fire pole is an ostrich's neck. The pre-1932 cartoons routinely treated living creatures as machinery, a convention that reads as strange now and was completely standard then.