When Magoo Flew

When Magoo Flew is an American animated short film by Pete Burness from the year 1955.

Action

The extremely short-sighted Mr. Magoo wants to go to the movies. He mistakenly holds the located near the airport for the cinema building, reads pleased the advertising posters for Hawaiian Travel as a reference for a 3D movie, is retiring at Your Weight Fortune machines a " movie ticket " and is full of expectation in his airplane seat. He is delighted by its 3D feel as the plane takes off, because it is so anfühle as if you were sitting in the airplane itself. He also praises the realism of the dialogue, as in the vicinity of his chair a detective with a stewardess speaks and is looking for a thief. The happens to be the person sitting next to Mr. Magoo and refuge, where he leaves his bag. Mr. Magoo decides to bring it to him.

Due to his nearsightedness, he opens the emergency exit, which he holds for the elevator to the lobby, and goes around to the wings, where he criticized the ailerons as potential pitfalls. He travels along the plane around, finally looks unmoved from the outside into the cockpit and is transported into the interior of the pilot by gripping arm. Mr. Magoo brings the thief his suitcase, as the protests just before the detective never to have possessed one.

The plane lands and Mr. Magoo leaves the airport. The stewardess he praises for a good movie, but regrets that it was not a cartoon and want to know if they would show the films on the very short-sighted man who always laughs so strange.

Production

When Magoo Flew came on January 6, 1955 in Technicolor in the cinemas. It was the first animated film to Mr. Magoo, which was realized in Cinemascope.

The film series to Mr. Magoo began in 1949 with the short cartoon Ragtime Bear. When Magoo Flew was the 16th film of the cartoon series. As in any Magoo result, the main character is also spoken in When Magoo Flew by Jim Backus.

Awards

When Magoo Flew won the 1955 Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ". Previously, two films were in 1951 ( Trouble Indemnity ) and 1952 ( Pink and Blue Blues ) has been nominated for an Oscar for Mr. Magoo; 1957 was finally awarded Magoo's Puddle Jumper, a second Mr. Magoo - movie with the Oscar.