Mickey Mouse Gas Mask

Now for something truly creepy this Halloween:

The Mickey Mouse gas mask was created in January 1942 by T.W. Smith, Jr., the owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and his designer, Dietrich Rempel, with Walt Disney’s approval. 

This design of the Mickey Mouse Gas Mask for children was presented to Major General William N. Porter, Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. The mask was designed so children would carry it and wear it as part of a game. 

After approval of the CWS, Sun Rubber Products Company produced approximately 1,000 masks. They were never used and after the war they were distributed to senior officers as keepsakes.”

- Major Robert Walk

This is Halloween! Sing Along

Happy Halloween!! Sing Along to our favorite Disney Halloween song!

[SHADOW]

Boys and girls of every age

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

[SIAMESE SHADOW]

Come with us and you will see

This, our town of Halloween

[PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

[GHOSTS]

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene

Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright

It's our town, everybody scream

In this town of Halloween

Classic Halloween Commercials

Let's relive Halloweens-gone-by with some classic commercials. 

Not all Disney related, but fun :)

Wonderful World of Disney 1987 - intro to Scary Tales of Halloween

McNuggets Halloween commercial I remember and love from the '80s

Time to make the (Halloween) Donuts! Miss Fred the Baker!

I remember this one! We still have some of these cars from when my brothers were little.

Toys R Us 1985 - love it!

Pumpkin Carving & Disney's Halloween Treat

Having a festive night carving pumpkins, Sam Octoberfest and Disney Halloween!

Disney's Halloween Treat - 1982

Disney's Halloween Treat was a 47-minute Halloween-themed clip show which first aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on October 30,1982 and featured a compilation of Disney animated shorts involving spooky or supernatural themes as well as excerpted segments from Disney feature films.

We used to watch this EVERY Halloween growing up - and I still do, every year!

Halloween Pumpkin

With only 10 days left until Halloween, I'm starting to think about what to carve my pumpkin.

Something like this is WELL beyond my artistic capabilities and threshold for patience:

Or this:

But I do think I can handle this one - I quite like the simplicity:

Donald Duck - Trick Or Treat - 1952

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat

Trick or Treat for Halloween

When ghosts and goblins by the score

Ring the bell on your front door

You'd better not be stingy or

Your nightmares will come true!

I remember this from "Disney's Halloween Treat" on the Disney Channel we watched when we were kids, after we finished Trick or Treating! So fun!

After Donald plays a cruel Halloween prank on his nephews, the 3 team-up with a witch and her broom to teach him a lesson about 'tricks and treats.'

Facts:

Trick or Treat was included in the television shows A Disney Halloween and Disney's Halloween Treat, which aired in the 1980s and 1990s. It was included as a bonus feature with the "Gold Classic Collection" release of The Black Cauldron in 2000. It also makes an appearance in Mickey's House of Villains, released in 2002.

Mickey Mouse - The Mad Doctor - 1933

More for our Countdown to Halloween!!
Pluto gets captured by a Mad Scientist and Mickey must rescue him before the crazy experiment begins!

Original Poster for Walt Disney's
"The Mad Doctor" 1933

Mickey Mouse - The Haunted House - 1929

"The Haunted House" was produced and released around the same time as "Skeleton Dance" in 1929, and does not receive the recognition it deserves. An excellent example of Ub Iwerks' talents as Walt's animator and partner, I would like to share it with you here, as part of our Countdown to Halloween.

Mickey seeks shelter from a storm unknowingly in a haunted house. 

Disney & Iwerks - Skeleton Dance - 1929

No better way to start our Halloween Countdown than with the classic Disney Skeleton Dance.

The Skeleton Dance (1929) was the very first Silly Symphonies animated short cartoon produced and directed by Walt Disney and animated by Ub Iwerks. In 1994, it was voted #18 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time.

Original poster for The Skeleton Dance (1929)