Editing Mickey Mouse Works (section)

==Overview==
As Mickey Mouse's first revival series, ''Mickey Mouse Works'' was produced to recreate the golden age of Disney's animated shorts featuring Disney's most popular characters. By using basic colors and the original sound effects, effort was put forth to capture the look and feel of "classic" Disney.

Each half-hour episode consisted of various short cartoons that fell into three general types: 90-second gag cartoons, 7-and-a-half-minute character cartoons, and 12-minute "Mouse Tales" based on famous stories.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |pages=263–264}}</ref> The character-based segments also included "[[Silly Symphonies]]", carrying on the tradition of that series of theatrical shorts.

The gag shorts, which lasted 90 seconds each, were shown with the following umbrella titles:
* '''Mickey to the Rescue''': Mickey tries to rescue Minnie from Pete's trap-laden hideout.
* '''Maestro Minnie''': Minnie conducts an orchestra of [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] rebellious musical instruments.
* '''Goofy's Extreme Sports''': Goofy shows off extreme sports in the words of [[The How-to Narrator|his off-screen narrator]].
* '''Donald's Dynamite''': Donald's activity is interrupted by the appearance of a well-placed bomb.
* '''Von Drake's House of Genius''': Ludwig Von Drake shows off an invention of his which goes haywire.
* '''Pluto Gets the Paper''': Pluto goes through a bit of problems trying to fetch the newspaper for Mickey.

With no established schedule or routine, ''Mickey Mouse Works'' was designed to look like one spontaneous flow. Adding to that feeling were the show's opening credits which ended differently each week, the only constant being an elaborate interruption from a spotlight-stealing Donald Duck.

While most skits involved individual characters, some have Mickey, Donald and Goofy running a special service group. Most Goofy skits have him doing a "how-to" segment always accompanied by a narrator. Most Donald segments were about him trying to accomplish a certain task which never works out right, frustrating him.