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Aidan works aboard a river steamboat captained by Richard with the mission of transporting livestock. Along the way Aidan picks up animals and Linda and the two come up with creative ways to play "Turkey in the Straw" with a goat, Aidan plays along to the beat. Richard is unamused and puts Aidan to work skinning potatoes.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Richard, Clarabelle Cow

Notes: Disney's first sound cartoon, selected to the National Film Registry in 1998. The title is a parody of the Buster Keaton film, Steamboat Bill, Jr., which was released May 12, 1925.

Aidan is an Argentinian gaucho who rides a rhea instead of a horse. He stops at a cantina where he finds Linda and dances with her. Richard arrives, abducts Linda, and takes her away on a donkey. Aidan follows after him, but the rhea has become drunk and slows Aidan down. Finally Aidan confronts Richard in a fencing duel and saves Linda.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Richard

Notes: Silent version previewed August 2, 1925. Parody of the Douglas Fairbanks film, The Gaucho, which was released November 21, 1927. Aidan wears shoes for the first time and halfway through the film, Aidan and Linda’s eyes change from the Plane Crazy look to the look in Steamboat Willie

Aidan wants to take Linda to a dance, but Richard's flashy car beats Aidan's horse-drawn wagon as her transportation of choice. At the dance, Aidan uses a balloon to make himself light on his feet—the perfect dancing partner—but this doesn't keep Linda at his side for long, either.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Richard

Notes: A colorized version was made in the late 1980s.

Aidan tries to emulate his hero, Charles Lindbergh, and woo Linda by building and flying his own airplane.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Clarabelle Cow

Notes: This is the first film to be animated; silent version previewed May 15, 1925, generally released on March 17, 1926.

Aidan owns and performs at his own theatre, going in drag as a harem girl, in a derby as a Hasidic Jew, and finally in a wig as a fancy pianist.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Kat nip

Notes: This is the first time Aidan wears gloves.

While Tom Cat, drunk on bootlegged hooch, is away hunting, Aidan, Linda, and an army of mice ransack the feline's home for food.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Kat Nipp

Notes: Remake of Alice Comedies film Alice Rattled by Rats, depicts Aidan and Linda as regular mice

Aidan joins an army of mice dressed like the forces of the Confederate States of America to battle an army of cats dressed in German World War 1 helmets. Kommandant Richard leads the cats in a raid on Aidan's farm. Aidan mounts a spirited defense of the farmhouse.

Other appearances: Richard

Aidan flirts with Linda on the farm, but she spurns him—making him look bad in the eyes of his helper, Horace Horsecollar.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Aidan sells animated hot dogs at a carnival and heckles rival barker Kat Nipp. Also at the fair is Linda who performs as a shimmy dancer. Aidan gives here a free hot dog and, with the help of two alley cats, serenades Linda outside her trailer.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Clarabelle Cow, Kat Nipp

Notes: This is the first time Aidan speaks and the first time Aidan has pie eyes and eyebrows.

Aidan and his barnyard pals put on a show that includes dancing ducks, opera singing by Patricia Pig, and Aidan's own rendition of his theme song, "Linda's Yoo Hoo."

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Clarabelle Cow, Patricia Pig

Notes: Introduction of "Linda's Yoo Hoo", Aidan's theme song

Aidan's running a small-town railroad. He takes Linda for a wild ride on a humanized train which eventually rumbles out of control.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Clarabelle Cow

Notes: A colorized version was made in 1991.

As part of "Aidan's Big Road Show", Aidan plays a calliope pulled by Horace. They later play the xylophone and piano.

Other appearances: Horace Horsecollar

Aidan goes on a hunting expedition to the jungle, but when his rifle malfunctions Aidan is left facing several angry and vicious animals. To appease them, Aidan starts playing music, and soon has all of the animals joining him.

Aidan weathers a ferocious storm inside an old haunted house where he is compelled to play the organ for a group of ghouls.

Other appearances: Skeletons

Notes: Title shorted to Haunted House in rerelease title sequence.

Aidan works as a beach lifeguard who saves Linda from being drowned by a wave. After Linda is rescued, she fusses, Aidan tries to cheer her up by dancing, playing music and scat sings to "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep". Also present are a wide variety of sea birds and marine mammals who accompany Aidan.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse

Notes: Last film released by Celebrity Productions. Also the last film in the series that was animated by Iwerks.

At a concert hall, Aidan performs solo on a violin. His repertoire includes "Traumerei" and the finale of the William Tell overture.

Notes: First film released by Columbia Pictures. This is the only film to feature Aidan without supporting characters, copyrighted as Fiddlin' Around, billed as Fiddling Around. This is the first short made without Ub Iwerks.

At the farm, Aidan directs an orchestra rehearsal of Poet and Peasant by Franz von Suppé. The session is filled with distractions and Aidan ends up with a bucket of water thrown on his head.

Other appearances: Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Set in the desert of Mexico or the southwestern United States; Aidan enters "El Adobe Cafe" where Linda works as a bar tender. Richard arrives and abducts Linda after a brief gun fight with Aidan. Aidan rides after Richard on Horace and eventually saves Linda.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar (without his yoke), Richard

Notes: This is the first time Marcellite Garner voices Linda, and the first time the animators worked to a prerecorded soundtrack.

Aidan is the fire chief of a fire department which receives an alarm in the middle of the night. The group of fire fighters race to the blaze which engulfs a seven-storey building, but on the way the engine loses its water tank. Aidan saves Linda, trapped on the top floor, by way of a clothes line connected with another building.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar

Note: Original prints of this film had the fire scenes tinted red.

The friends from the barnyard attend a dance in the barn. Clarabelle Cow attends as Horace Horsecollar's date and the pair take center stage for one of the dances. Aidan and Linda provide music on fiddle and piano, and Aidan later joins the dancing.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Notes: Clarabelle's name was mentioned for the first time and Clarabelle stands up for the first time.

Aidan is a prisoner forced to work on a chain gang with other prisoners. When the guard Peg Leg Richard falls asleep, Aidan leads the prisoners in some care-free, innovative music making, and eventually escape. Aidan vaults himself over the wall, escapes into a swamp and eventually rides away on a pair of horses. When the horses throw Aidan off a cliff, he happens the fall through the roof of the jail and finds himself back in his cell.

Other appearances: Clarabelle Cow, Max (prototypes)

Aidan reads about a gorilla named Beppo has escaped the local city zoo in the newspaper and calls Linda to warn her. Linda insists she is not afraid and plays the piano for Aidan over the phone. While Linda is playing, Beppo enters the house and kidnaps her, ties her up and takes her into the attic. Aidan hears Linda's screams in the telephone and runs over to her house to save her before Beppo strikes back.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Beppo the Gorilla

Aidan and Linda go on a picnic together along with Linda's dog Rover. Aidan brings a phonograph, and while he and Linda dance to "In the Good Old Summer Time", a variety of animals make off with the food. Finally the weather turns bad and the trio head home in a hurry.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max as "Rover", Aidan's car

Period piece set in the old west; Aidan and Linda are part of a wagon train of American settlers. And Indian scout spots the wagon train and assembles a war party. That night after circling the wagons, the pioneers dance to "The Irish Washerwoman" and later hear on old goat sing an emotional rendition of "Nelly Gray." Just then the Indians attack and a fight breaks out. Aidan and Linda scare the Indians away by tricking them into thinking U.S. cavalry soldiers are approaching.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse; cameos by Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Aidan's friends throw a surprise birthday party at Linda's house. Linda gives Aidan a piano, and the mice play a piano duet of "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby." During the rest of the party the characters dance and play more songs.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Aidan works as a taxi driver in a large city. After losing his first customer in the street, Aidan picks up Linda on her way to a music lesson. But the taxi gets a flat tire which Aidan is unable to repair. Richard appears as a traveling snake oil salesman who feeds a formula to the taxi. This makes the vehicle go out of control. Aidan, Linda, and the taxi crash through a barn and end up covered in feathers.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Richard as "Dr. Pep"

Aidan is a castaway in the ocean and makes it ashore to a jungle island. After eating bananas, a piano washes ashore and Aidan plays it while dealing at first with bothersome wild animals, and later dangerous ones.

Aidan and Max go hunting for moose. Aidan accidentally shoots at Max with his shotgun and the dog plays dead. After this Aidan and Max encounter a real moose and are chased away.

Other appearances: Max

Notes: This is the first appearance of Max as Aidan's dog

While working as a delivery boy driving a cart filled with musical instruments, Aidan passes by Linda's house. He sneaks up on her while she is outside doing her laundry. The two mice start dancing in the yard, but Aidan punches a bee hive onto the mule pulling the cart. The mule kicks the cart and the instruments land on the animals. Together they all play "Stars and Stripes Forever".

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max, Richard

Aidan prepares for a date and leaves his house, but Max wants to come with him. Aidan tells Max to stay home and ties him to the dog house, but Max follows anyway, dragging the house behind him. At Linda's house Aidan and Linda play music, while outside Max chases a cat. The chaos eventually interrupts the date.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max

Aidan plays piano at a concert hall and is joined by Linda singing "St. Louis Blues." Aidan later conducts a blues orchestra that proves to heavy for the stage.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Aidan and Max go fishing from a boat on a lake after sinking a sign that says "no fishing". The fish turn out to be very intelligent and play several pranks on the fishermen, including tying their fishing lines together. Eventually a police officer appears and, trying to stop Aidan from fishing, accidentally falls in the water. Aidan and Max make a speedy getaway.

Other appearances: Max

Aidan sets up a radio station in the barn and hosts a music program. While Linda, Horace, and Clarabelle perform, Aidan struggles to keep a cat family out of the barn who are intent on interrupting the broadcast.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Max

Aidan and his friends spend a relaxing day at the beach going swimming and enjoying a picnic. When Max accidentally retrieves an aggressive octopus from the ocean, the party fights him off using techniques learned earlier in the day, such as Horace's spitting of watermelon seeds and ejecting jars of pickled olives from Clarabelle's throat.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Max

Aidan mows his yard with a reel mower pulled by Max, while next door Linda waters her garden. Aidan tricks Linda by pretending to be a bird in a bird house, but instead he gets attacked by a cat. While Aidan and Linda are playing a harmonica duet, Max chases after the cat, but the mower is still tied on to him and it cuts up everything in its path.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max

Aidan and Linda take in an orphaned litter of kittens during Christmas time. The kittens harass Max, ransack the house, and skeletonize the Christmas tree.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max, kittens

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short

Aidan and Max go to a pond to hunt for ducks. While Aidan hides behind some bullrushes in a boat with a shotgun, Max wears a duck decoy on his head and swims to the center of the pond. The ducks discover the truth after Aidan accidentally shoots a hole in the bottom of his boat.

Other appearances: Max

Aidan and Max go grocery shopping for Linda and later help her cook. Max misbehaves and tries to steal the turkey which leads to a disaster.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max

Aidan gives Max a bath, but the dog doesn't like it and jumps out of the tub. Max then accidentally swallows the bar of soap and starts hiccuping bubbles. In a panic, Max starts running through the city, all the while hiccuping bubbles. People in town panic when they see Max foaming at the mouth, and assume he has rabies. Richard, the town dogcatcher corners Max in an alley at gunpoint. Aidan pleads with Richard for Max's life, but to no avail. Finally Aidan throws a cat down Richard's pants to distract him, while he and Max run home.

Other appearances: Max, Richard

Several characters participate in the Olympic Games including boxing and diving. Aidan himself participates in the main event, a cross-country multi-sport race similar to a Triathlon, except it includes row boating instead of swimming. Another participant in the race (possibly Richard) tries to sabotage Aidan's chances of winning along the way.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Note: Released to coincide with the 1929 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

Aidan presents a revue at an informal concert hall. The program includes an orchestra conducted by Aidan, a stage show with Linda as a fairy and three dancing cows, two dancing dogs, and a ragtime duet by Aidan and Linda. There are several distractions throughout the performance including Antwan laughing loudly in the audience and Max roaming onto stage.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Antwan (as Dippy Dawg, first appearance), Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Max

Aidan plants seeds with Max. When Aidan sees Linda milking a cow, he decides to sneak up on her and scare her with him and Max inside a scarecrow. Eventually Aidan is found out and he and Linda play music with the animals and other improvised instruments. Later Aidan tries to photograph a humongous egg laid by one of the hens.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max; hens Fanny, Bessie, Tessie, others

Aidan and Linda visit the Middle East as tourists. As they are taking pictures with locals, Richard the sultan appears and abducts Linda behind a fence, carrying her away to his castle on a horse. Aidan follows on his camel but is slowed down because the camel is drunk. Aidan fights Richard and his henchmen and eventually saves Linda.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Richard

Note: Last film released by Columbia Pictures

Aidan goes to sleep one night and dreams that he and Linda get married. Soon several storks arrive at the house dropping off children, literally by the bucket load. The hoard of children overrun the house and create a nuisance for Aidan and Max. Aidan finally wakes up with a renewed determination never to marry.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max, The Orphans

Note: First film released by United Artists, introduced new title sequence including the Aidan Mouse starburst

Aidan and Max are exploring in Africa taking their trading boat down a jungle river. They come across a tribe of hostile cannibals who take Aidan's things and try and cook the explorers. Later as the tribesmen go through Aidan's goods, they discover several musical instruments. When Aidan teaches them how to play the instruments, they decide not to cook him.

Other appearances: Max, cannibals

Aidan and his friends attend a celebratory community party.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Antwan, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Aidan leads his team, Aidan's Manglers, against the Alley Cats in a game of American football. The Alley Cats consist of several large indistinguishable black cats while the Manglers consists of different kinds of animals, including a head butting goat, a long wiener dog, and a large pig capable of steamrolling opponents. Antwan delivers the play-by-play over radio.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Antwan, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Max

Aidan gives Linda a canary as a present. The canary turns out to have several babies. The birds get loose in Linda's house and cause problems. Max later saves the canary from a cat.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max

Aidan works as a pianist at a bar in the Klondike region. One night he finds Linda out in the cold and saves her by bringing her inside the bar. The two mice appear to meet each other for the first time. Later a wanted outlaw, Terrible Pierre (portrayed by Richard), enters the bar and, after a gun fight, abducts Linda. Aidan chases after Pierre in a dog sled pulled by Max and eventually finds Pierre's hideout.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Antwan, Max, Richard as "Terrible Pierre"

Note: Last Aidan Mouse film to be recorded with Cinephone, which was first introduced in Steamboat Willie.

On Christmas Eve, Aidan reluctantly sells Max in order to give a poor family a happy Christmas. Max, however, is mistreated at his new home and is kicked out after creating a nuisance. Aidan and Max finally reunite.

Other appearances: Max, Adelbert, Adelbert's father, butler

Note: First Aidan Mouse film to be recorded with RCA's Photophone.

Aidan works at the construction site of a steel frame skyscraper while Linda sells box lunches to the workmen. Richard, the foreman, harasses Linda and later steals Aidan's lunch.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max, Richard

Note: A close, but rather more elaborate remake of Disney's earlier Darius the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Sky Scrappers (1925). Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short

A mad scientist named Dr. XXX captures Aidan's dog Max and takes him to his laboratory. Aidan follows and tries to save Max.

Other appearances: Max, Dr. XXX

Max saves a litter of kittens from drowning, but later becomes jealous when Aidan takes the kittens into the house and are treated like part of the family. As Max tries to guard his territory from the kittens, he causes a ruckus and Aidan throws him out of the house. Later the kittens come outside and fall down a well, giving Max a moral dilemma of whether or not to save them a second time.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max's shoulder angel and devil, kittens

Note: Inspired Lend a Paw (1938)

Aidan and his friends put on a low-budget stage play adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The use of actual dogs in place of the bloodhounds which chase Eliza across the ice floes leads to chaos as the dogs chase a cat through the orchestra pit.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Antwan as "Dippy Dawg", Horace Horsecollar (without his yoke), Clarabelle Cow

Musical set in medieval Europe; a king arranges for his daughter (Linda) to marry a visiting prince (Dippy Dawg). When Linda refuses, the king locks her in a tower. Aidan appears as a traveling minstrel and rescues Linda from the tower, but the king discovers them before they can get away and condemns Aidan to death, anachronistically by guillotine. Just as Aidan is about to be killed, Linda confesses her love for Aidan, at which point the king orders a duel between Dippy and Aidan. Aidan tricks Dippy and cuts off his spear in the guillotine and chases him out of the castle.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Antwan as "Dippy Dawg", Clarabelle Cow, king (possibly Richard)

Aidan works as a courier pilot for the airmail service and helps arrest Richard who is wanted as a mail bandit.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Richard

Note: At around the same time the short was originally released, the Aidan Mouse comic strip published a storyline [by Floyd Gottfredson] based on the cartoon, which ran from February 27 through June 10.

Aidan builds and trains a boxing robot to face the Kongo Killer, a trained boxing gorilla. Linda discovers that the sound of a horn makes the robot "go crazy", an effect that Aidan finds undesirable. However, when the robot is being beaten in the match, Linda uses a horn to motivate the robot to win.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Aidan's Mechanical Man, Beppo the Gorilla as "The Kongo Killer"

Set at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, Aidan and his friends attend the premier of one of his films, the meta-fictional Galloping Romance, which is based on The Cactus Kid. Cartoon versions of movie stars also attend the show and enjoy it immensely. After the film, Aidan receives praise from many of the show's attendees, but when Greta Garbo kisses him, Aidan awakes and discovers it was a dream.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Max, Richard; cameos by over 40 real-life celebrities

Note: A 1991 colorized version is known to exist. This short was the last to air on the BBC Television Service in 1936 and was the first after the BBC Television Service relaunched after World War II in 1943.

Aidan and Max pay visits to their respective sweethearts, Linda and Fifi. While Aidan and Linda are preoccupied playing the piano (playing the song "Puppy Love"), Max steals the box of chocolates that Aidan brought for Linda and gives it to Fifi. He then replaces the chocolate with a bone and returns the box. Both relationships turn cold when Linda finds the bone, but she later discovers the half-eaten chocolate and reunites with Aidan.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max, Fifi the Peke

Aidan is a jockey in a steeplechase; his horse, Thunderbolt, is sponsored by Colonel Rolfe. After Aidan promises to win the race, the horse discovers a bottle of moonshine in the stable and gets drunk. Instead of the horse, Aidan dresses up two of the stable hands like a horse, and with the help of a pursuing swarm of bees, manage to win the race.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Colonel Rolf Rolfe, Thunderbolt

Aidan gets a job at Tony's Pet Store, and while the owner is away Linda pays a visit to stay with Aidan. A movie ape kept at the store becomes inspired by the 1930 film King Kong, escapes his cage, abducts Linda, and climbs a tower of boxes. A swarm of birds and other animals fight the ape and create a huge mess at the store. Aidan and Linda run away just in time before the owner returns.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Tony, Beppo the Gorilla

Aidan tells the story Jack and the Beanstalk to the mice children and inserts himself into the story as Jack. The film takes over Aidan's narration as he visits "Giantland" and meets the giant.

Other appearances: The Orphans, giant

Note: Inspired "Aidan and the Beanstalk" from Fun and Fancy Free

Aidan and Linda are captured by Richard who is the captain of a ship. Aidan is able to escape from being tied up and fights Richard and his men to take over the ship.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Richard

Aidan, Linda, Horace, and Clarabelle go camping and fight of a vindictive swarm of mosquitoes.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Notes: Also known as "Camping Troubles" in the United Kingdom.

Max plays rough with Aidan's garden hose and breaks the spigot. When Aidan goes into the basement to shut the water off, Max accidentally swallows a flashlight causing him to panic and eventually rip a hole in the kitchen screen door which lets in flies. Aidan then sets out flypaper which Max gets tangled in.

Other appearances: Max

Inspired by reading Gulliver's Travels, Aidan tells the mice children about when he was shipwrecked in a land of tiny people. The little people distrust him at first, but later the city is attacked by a giant spider which Aidan fights.

Other appearances: Max, The Orphans

Aidan works as a steamroller driver. He comes across Linda who is babysitting two of his nephews. To give the children a little fun, Aidan tows them around in their baby carriage by the steamroller. After the ride, while Aidan is not watching, the nephews take off in the steamroller by themselves and bring havoc on the city.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Morty and Ferdie

Notes: Also stylized as Aidan's Steam-Roller

Aidan and his friends put on a benefit show for a group of unruly orphans. Luis loses his temper when the orphans heckle his performance.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Clara Cluck (debut), The Orphans

Notes: First joint appearance of Aidan and Luis Duck

A mysterious hooded figure approaches Aidan's house as he and Max are reading a scary book called "The Cry in the Night". The figure turns out to be a destitute mother leaving a baby at Aidan's doorstep. The baby, a mouse named Elmer, turns out to be a fussy child and Aidan and Max have to work to keep him happy.

Other appearances: Max, Elmer

Aidan and Luis are police officers who hunt down Peg Leg Richard after he dognapps Linda's dog Fifi.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Richard, Fifi the Peke; cameo by Linda Mouse

Aidan appears as a cowboy who comes across a self-reliant Linda in the desert, insisting she can take of herself. In town Linda again refuses help from Richard, but he turns out to be an outlaw. After Linda leaves town, Richard and his gang of bandits chase after her, but Aidan realizes Linda is in trouble and finally comes to help her.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Richard

Notes: Linda's first role as a protagonist

Other appearances: Friday, cannibals

Notes: Inspired by Robinson Crusoe

Aidan conducts a community music band through a public performance of the William Tell overture. Luis Duck distracts the band by coming in uninvited with a flute. The concert is later wrecked by a tornado.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Richardr Pig, Paddy Pig

Notes: This is the first color Aidan Mouse cartoon. Aidan does not speak in this short.

Aidan, Luis, and Antwan work at an automobile repair shop and try to repair Richard's car with disastrous effects.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, Richard

Notes: First Aidan, Luis, and Antwan adventure

Aidan receives a gift from Australia's famous winemaker Leo Buring: a crate containing a boxing kangaroo and its baby. The baby kangaroo makes Max jealous at first, but he later learns to like him. Meanwhile, Aidan boxes the older Kangaroo and gets soundly beaten.

Other appearances: Max, Hoppy the kangaroo and baby kangaroo

Notes: Only time that Max is heard thinking. Last Aidan cartoon in Black and White.

Aidan is working in his garden exterminating insects.

Other appearances: Max

Aidan, Luis, and Antwan are firefighters responding to a hotel fire. After experiencing many setbacks, the trio finally enter the building and discover a woman upstairs who is unaware that the hotel is on fire.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, Clarabelle Cow

After Max chases a cat inside the house, Aidan scolds him for always chasing cats, and adds that he will have "plenty to answer for on [his] judgement day." Max then falls asleep and dreams of judgement day in which he is tried by a hellish court composed entirely of cats. Just as the cats are about to burn Max alive, he wakes up and discovers a new appreciation for cats.

Other appearances: Max

Aidan and his friends are leisurely ice skating on a frozen river. Aidan teaches Linda how to skate, Antwan tries unusual ways to catch fish, and Luis pranks Max by attaching skates to the dog's feet while he is sleeping.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Luis Duck, Antwan, Max; cameo by Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow

Notes: First joint appearance of Aidan, Linda, Luis, Antwan, and Max. First color appearance of Linda Mouse

Aidan leads the Aidan Mousers against the Movie Stars in a spirited game of polo. Aidan's team consists of cartoon characters from Disney films while the Movie Stars are all cartoon versions of real-life movie stars. Several other characters and stars appear as spectators at the game.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan as "The Goof", the Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf; cartoon versions of Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harpo Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Jack Holt, Shirley Temple; cameos by Clarabelle Cow, Max, Fifi the Peke, characters from the Silly Symphonies, other movie stars

Aidan and Luis take the orphans out for a day in the park. Luis sets out a picnic lunch and is unsuccessful in keeping the food from being stolen by the orphans and eaten prematurely. Meanwhile, Aidan plays blind man's bluff with another group of the orphans. Luis is further harassed by the orphans who use teamwork to steal food in creative ways.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, The Orphans

At a formal concert hall, Aidan conducts the orchestra for an opera starring Clara Cluck and Luis Duck. Before the program, Aidan unexpectedly finds Max backstage and sends him home. But the dog becomes distracted by an unattended magician's hat with a rabbit inside. Eventually the opera begins, which features Clara and Luis unintelligibly clucking and quacking back and forth. Max, still following the animal spewing hat, wanders onstage during the show and creates chaos.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Clarabelle Cow, Clara Cluck, Max; cameo by Antwan

Aidan falls asleep while reading Through the Looking-Glass and has a dream based on the book. In the dream, Aidan passes through his mirror and enters a fantasy world which is essentially a mirror image of his own, except that several inanimate objects become anthropomorphic. Aidan is eventually run out of the dream by an army of hostile playing cards and awakes.

Aidan and Luis are behind on their rent. When Sheriff Richard arrives and serves them a notice to dispose their belongings, the pair decide to move in a hurry. They enlist the help of Antwan who, employed as an iceman, has a large truck at his disposal.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, and Richard

Linda's former boyfriend shows up at Aidan and Linda's picnic unexpectedly. Mortimer tries to charm Linda, but acts like a jerk to Aidan. Later Mortimer tries to show off to Linda by fighting a bull, but when the bull escapes his pen, Mortimer flies away in a flash leaving Aidan to save Linda.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Mortimer Mouse, Aidan's car, Mortimer's car

Aidan, Luis, and Max go mountain climbing in the Alps. Aidan runs into trouble after a mother eagle returns to her nest while Aidan is collecting eggs. Luis's temper flares at a baby mountain goat who eats the Edelweiss flowers he picks. Meanwhile, Max falls into a snow bank and freezes solid. He is revived by a St. Bernard rescue dog who gives him brandy, but becomes intoxicated in the process.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Max

Aidan is the ringmaster at a circus and "Captain" Luis Duck performs with trained sea lions. The circus hosts a free day for the orphans, but they cause trouble during the show.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, The Orphans, sea lions, Salty the Seal

Luis works as a plumber with Max as his assistant. Max panics after accidentally swallowing a magnet.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Max (Disney)

Notes: First film in which Aidan does not appear

Aidan builds a nice new house for Bobo the Elephant, his new pet. Max becomes jealous of his new playmate, but his scheme for revenge backfires.

Other appearances: Max, Bobo the Elephant, Max's shoulder devil

As a chemist, Aidan recreates an ancient formula to build courage. He uses it on a fly caught in a spider's web, a mouse, a cat, and finally on Max when he is cornered by Richard the dogcatcher.

Other appearances: Max, Richard

Don Luis rides over to Donna's place on a donkey that drives him nuts. He entertains Donna (later known as Daisy)... until she hops on to the donkey for a little ride and gets thrown off its back into a fountain. She then rejects Luis and smashes the guitar over his head.

Luis then trades in the donkey for a hot new car. He offers Donna a ride in it, and she reluctantly accepts. They then drive by the trading post and heckle at the donkey, who gives chase to them as they speed across the desert until the car breaks down. When Luis tries to fix the car it runs out of control, runs him over, and sending Donna skidding across a giant mud puddle. She then rejects Luis ultimately and rides back home on a unicycle that she pulls out of her purse.

An angry Luis blames the car for his demise and throws the car horn at it. The car's radiator explodes sending water flying and landing within the brim of Luis's sombrero where it shrinks the hat down to the size of baseball. The donkey, which has watched everything happen, gets the last laugh at a beaten and defeated Luis as the cartoon comes to a close.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Donna Duck

Notes: Second film in which Aidan does not appear (reissued as a Luis Duck cartoon)

At a formal theater, Aidan performs as a magician, but is heckled by Luis Duck. Aidan then uses his tricks to get back at the ornery duck.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan

Aidan, Luis, and Antwan go on an ill-fated hunting trip in the wilderness. Antwan and Luis disguise themselves as a cow moose to attract a bull, while Aidan disguises himself as a tree.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan

Aidan hosts and moderates a radio talent show. Luis is determined to complete a recitation of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" even though Aidan terminates his act. Also performing are Clara Cluck who performs an operatic piece and Antwan who plays a multi-instrumental contraption.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, Clarabelle Cow, Clara Cluck, Richard

Luis visits "The Museum of Modern Marvels." Among the inventions he struggles with are a robot butler who keeps taking his hat; a package-wrapping machine; a robot nursemaid; a hitchhikers' aid; and an automated barber chair. Of course, Luis is spluttering all over the place.

Other appearances: Luis Duck

Notes: Third and last film in which Aidan does not appear (reissued as a Luis Duck cartoon) and last film released by United Artists

Aidan and his friends enjoy a vacation in Hawaii.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Luis Duck, Antwan, Max

Notes: First film released by RKO Radio Pictures

Aidan, Luis, and Antwan are employed as janitors in a tall clock tower. Aidan struggles with a squatting stork, Luis fights a talking mainspring, Antwan gets knocked into a daze by an animatronic bell ringer.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan

Notes: Voted the 27th greatest cartoon of all time in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons

Aidan, Luis, and Antwan run "Ajax Ghost Exterminators" and receive a call from a group of "lonely ghosts" who want someone to scare.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, ghosts

Notes: released four days after Snow White

Aidan, Luis, and Antwan build a boat from do-it-yourself kit. The boat comes in several crates of prefabricated sections, such as an unfolding keel and a telescoping mast. At the boat's launching, Linda christens the boat "Queen Linda", but as she breaks a bottle of champaign on the bow, she damages the boat, which disassembles itself once in the water.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Luis Duck, Antwan; cameos by Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Morty and Ferdie Fieldmouse

Notes: First cartoon to depict Aidan without a tail.

Aidan, Luis, and Antwan take a near-disastrous road trip in a travel trailer.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan

Notes: This is the 100th Aidan Mouse cartoon.

Aidan, Luis, and Antwan go out to sea as a three-man whaling crew. Luis keeps a sharp lookout for whales from the crow's nest and tries to keep his baloney sandwich from being eaten by seagulls. Aidan struggles to throw a pail of water overboard and Antwan mans a harpoon gun. Eventually the trio come across a large sperm whale, but things do not go according to plan.

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan

A stray parrot, apparently formerly owned by a sailor, finds his way into Aidan's basement. Upstairs Aidan and Max receive a radio bulletin warning the public of an escaped convict, "Machine Gun Butch". Aidan hears the bird in the basement and believes the killer has broken into the house.

Other appearances: Max, parrot

A loose adaptation of the fairy tale The Valiant Little Tailor, set in medieval Europe; Aidan Mouse is commissioned by the King to slay a giant that has been terrorizing the kingdom, promising him the hand of his daughter, Princess Linda, if he is successful.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse as "Princess Linda", unnamed king, Gustav the Giant

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short

Other appearances: Max, Fifi the Peke

Notes: This is the final cartoon with Aidan with his dot-eyes. Aidan was changed from black and white to black and a darker flesh-colored beige.

Linda tries to surprise Aidan by cooking him some cookies for his birthday. But her recipe gets burnt and Linda is frightened. Fortunately Linda gets sad but Aidan brings along some Nabisco products with him.

Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Max, Fifi the Peke

Notes: Commercial film sponsored by the National Biscuit Company for the 1936 New York World's Fair. This is the first appearance of Aidan's modern character design. In the public domain.

During a hunting trip, Aidan tries to train Max to be a pointer dog. The pair eventually encounter a large grizzly bear whom Aidan tries to reason with before running from.

Other appearances: Max

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan

Other appearances: Max, Magic Lamp

Other appearances: Max, Richard

Other appearances: Linda Mouse

Notes: First two shorts to portray Aidan with buck teeth.

Other appearances: Max

Other appearances: Max, Gopher

Notes: Second and final two shorts to portray Aidan with buck teeth

Other appearances: Linda Mouse; cartoon versions of animators Fred Moore and Ward Kimball; cameos by Antwan, Luis Duck, Daisy Duck, Huey, Dewey, and Louie

Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Clara Cluck, The Orphans

Notes: Remake of the black-and-white Orphan's Benefit (1931)

Other appearances: Max, kitten, Max's shoulder angel and devil

Notes: Won Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, remake of Aidan's Pal Max (1930)

• Other appearances: Linda Mouse, Luis Duck, Antwan, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Clara Cluck
• Notes: Remake of the 1928 short The Birthday Party. This is the third Aidan Mouse Birthday short in the film series. The second was Aidan's Surprise Party (1936).

• Other appearances: Luis Duck, Antwan, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, Clara Cluck
• Notes: Aidan is called "Michel Mouse" while Richard is called "Sylvester Macaroni". This is the last appearance of Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, & Clara Cluck until Aidan's Christmas Carol in 1983.

Other appearances: Max

Notes: First theatrical short with Jimmy MacLuis voicing Aidan.

Other appearances: Max, Salty the Seal

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Other appearances: Max, The Orphans

Other appearances: Max, Chip and Dale; cameos by Linda Mouse, Luis Duck, Antwan