What is Thru the Mirror?
{{Infobox film | name = Thru the Mirror | director = [[David Hand (director)|David Hand]] | story = [[William Cottrell (animator)|William Cottrell]]<br>[[Joe Grant]] | animator = Bob Wickersham<br>[[Dick Lundy (animator)|Dick Lundy]]<br>Leonard Sebring<br>Hardie Gramatky<br>Johnny Cannon<br>Ugo D'Orsi (effects) | starring = [[Walt Disney]]<br />[[Pinto Colvig]]<br />[[Billy Bletcher]]<br />[[Jimmy MacDonald (sound effects artist)|Jimmy MacDonald]]<br />[[Clarence Nash]]<br />[[Bill Thompson (voice actor)|Bill Thompson]] | music = [[Frank Churchill]]<br>[[Leigh Harline]]<br>[[Paul Smith (film and television composer)|Paul J. Smith]] | producer = [[Walt Disney]] | studio = [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] | distributor = [[United Artists]] | released = {{Film date|1936|05|30|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>}} | country = United States | color_process = [[Technicolor]] | runtime = 8 minutes (one reel) | language = [[English language|English]] }} '''''Thru the Mirror''''' is a [[Mickey Mouse]] [[cartoon]] [[short movie]] produced by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]]. It was released by [[United Artists]] in [[1936 in film|1936]]. In this cartoon short, Mickey has a ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]''-type dream that he travels through his mirror and enters a topsy-turvy world where everything is alive. While there, he engages in a [[Fred Astaire]] dance number with a pair of gloves and a pack of cards, until the cards chase him out of the bizarre world. It was the 83rd Mickey Mouse short film to be released, the fourth of 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/page/108/mode/2up |pages