What is Mickey's Birthday Party?
{{Infobox film | director = [[Riley Thomson]] | producer = [[Walt Disney]] | story = | narrator = | starring = Walt Disney<br>[[Thelma Boardman]]<br>[[Pinto Colvig]]<br>[[Clarence Nash]]<br>[[Florence Gill]] | music = | animator = '''Character animation:'''<br/>Marvin Woodward<br/>J. Moore<br/>Bernie Wolf<br/>[[Kenneth Muse]]<br/>Riley Thomson<br/>[[Les Clark]] | layout_artist = | background_artist = | studio = [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] | distributor = [[RKO Pictures|RKO Radio Pictures]] | released = {{Film date|1942|02|07|ref1=<ref name=ultimate>{{cite book |last1=Kaufman |first1=J.B. |last2=Gerstein |first2=David |title=Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History |date=2018 |publisher=[[Taschen]] |location=Cologne |isbn=978-3-8365-5284-4}}</ref>}} | color_process = [[Technicolor]] | runtime = 7 minutes, 58 seconds | country = United States | language = English }} '''''Mickey's Birthday Party''''' is a 1942 American animated short film directed by [[Riley Thomson]], produced by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] and distributed by [[RKO Radio Pictures]]. The 114th short to feature [[Mickey Mouse]], it was released on February 7, 1942. The animated film was directed by Riley Thomson and animated by Les Clark, James Moore, Ken Muse, Armin Shaffair, Riley Thompson, Bernie Wolf, and Marvin Woodward.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://mayersononanimation.blogspot.com/2006/07/mickeys-birthday-party.html|title=Mayerson on Animation: Mickey's Birthday Party|date=25 July 2006}}</ref> It was the 116th short in the ''[[Mickey Mouse (film series)|Mickey Mouse]]'' film series to be released, and the first for that year.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/