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{{short description|1936 Mickey Mouse cartoon}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Alpine Climbers
| image          = Alpine Climbers.png
| alt            = 
| caption        = Title card
| director       = [[David Hand (animator)|David Hand]]
| writer         = Vernon Stallings
| producer       = [[Walt Disney]]
| story          = Homer Brightman
| narrator       = 
| starring       = Walt Disney<br/>[[Clarence Nash]]<br/>Lee Millar
| music          = [[Albert Hay Malotte]]
| animator       = [[Carl Barks]]<br/>Bill Roberts<ref>{{cite book | last = Mosley | first = Leonard | author-link = | date = 1990 | title = Disney's World | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eaKoZtJqPc0C&dq=alpine+climbers+disney&pg=PA314 | location = | publisher = Scarborough House| page = 315 | isbn =978-1-58979-656-0}}</ref><br/>[[Norm Ferguson (animator)|Norm Ferguson]]<ref>{{cite book | last = Lenburg | first = Jeff | author-link = | date = 2006 | title = Who's who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award-winning and Legendary Animators | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FVShFCjVzvIC&dq=alpine+climbers+disney&pg=PA149 | location = | publisher = Applause Theatre & Cinema Books | page = 81 | isbn = 9781557836717}}</ref><br/>[[Dick Huemer]]<br/> 
| layout_artist = 
| background_artist = 
| studio         = [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]]
| distributor    = [[United Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|1936|07|25|ref1=<ref name=ultimate>{{cite web |url=https://d23.com/this-day/alpine-climbers-is-released/ |title=Alpine Climbers is Released |website=D23}}</ref>}}
| color_process  = [[Technicolor]]
| runtime        = 9 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
}}
'''''Alpine Climbers''''' is a 1936 American animated [[short film]] produced by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] and released by [[United Artists]]. The cartoon follows [[Mickey Mouse]], [[Donald Duck]], and [[Pluto (Disney)|Pluto]] [[Alpine climbing|climb]] the side of a mountain. The film was directed by [[David Hand (animator)|David Hand]] and includes the voices of [[Walt Disney]] as Mickey, [[Clarence Nash]] as Donald, and Lee Millar as Pluto. It was the 9th Mickey Mouse short to be released that year. As a work published in 1936 and a proper renewal notice filed within 28 years, the short will enter the American public domain in 2032.<ref>{{cite book | last = Copyright Office | author-link = | date = 1963 | title = Catalog of Copyright Entries 1963 Motion Picture Renewals | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KS8hAQAAIAAJ&dq=alpine+climbers+disney&pg=RA4-PA131 | location = | publisher = Library of Congress | page = 119 | isbn =}}</ref>{{Efn|As governed by the laws of Title 17 of the United States Code.}}

==Synopsis==
Up in the Swiss Alps, Mickey Mouse tangles with a mother eagle, Donald Duck scraps with an edelweiss-stealing goat and Pluto gets inebriated with a St. Bernard.

==Voice cast==
* [[Walt Disney]] as [[Mickey Mouse]]
* [[Clarence Nash]] as [[Donald Duck]]
* Lee Millar as [[Pluto (Disney)|Pluto]]<ref>{{cite book | last = Scott | first = Keith | author-link = | date = | title = Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0zGKEAAAQBAJ | location = | publisher = | page = | isbn =}}</ref>
* [[Pinto Colvig]] as Yodeling Dogs

== Production ==
This is the only known Disney cartoon to feature animation by [[Carl Barks]], an American cartoonist later known for his [[Donald Duck (comic strip)|Donald Duck comics]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Andrae |first=Tom |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CYP2Cj_Gb98C&dq=alpine+climbers+1936&pg=PA32 |title=Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book: Unmasking the Myth of Modernity |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2006 |isbn=9781578068586 |pages=32 |access-date=November 23, 2023}}</ref> One scene involving an Eagle flying was reworked with Walt Disney's input after he suggested the Eagle looked too human.<ref>{{cite book | last = Crafton | first = David | author-link = | date = 2013 | title = Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=TH8kDQAAQBAJ&dq=alpine+climbers+disney&pg=PA43 | location = | publisher = | page = 43 | isbn = 9780520261037}}</ref>

==Home media==
The short was released on December 4, 2001 on ''[[Walt Disney Treasures: Wave One#Mickey Mouse in Living Color|Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mickey Mouse in Living Color DVD Review|url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/mmlivingcolor.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=20 February 2021}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Mickey Mouse (film series)]]

==References==
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[[Category:1936 films]]
[[Category:1930s color films]]
[[Category:1930s Disney animated short films]]
[[Category:Films set in the 1930s]]
[[Category:Mickey Mouse short films]]
[[Category:Films produced by Walt Disney]]
[[Category:1930s American films]]
[[Category:Films directed by David Hand (animator)]]
[[Category:1936 animated short films]]


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