Mickey Mouse is a singing lifeguard. Minnie Mouse is the damsel he must rescue before she is swept out to sea.
Sound
Early sync-sound experiments with Mickey's musical rescue attempts.
Director
Burt Gillett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of the last Mickey shorts before Ub Iwerks left Disney, making it a transitional artifact of early animation history.
The 'damsel swept to sea' trope here parodies 1920s silent melodramas—Mickey's absurd heroism mocks the genre even as it indulges it.
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