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"Mickey's Christmas Chaos" is an animated short originally aired as part of an episode of Mickey Mouse Works. It was later incorporated into the House of Mouse episode "Clarabelle's Christmas List", where it was retitled "Mickey's Christmas Crisis". Mickey gets into a Christmas decorating contest with his next-door neighbor Mortimer.
Status
Released
Original Language
EN

Mickey is a railroad engineer with an anthropomorphic locomotive. He feeds the train (coal), then feeds his dog, then makes lunch for himself. Minnie drops by and plays a tune on her fiddle while Mickey dances. After lunch, the train has trouble climbing a hill, and the last car with Minnie aboard detaches and runs away.
In the gray dawn of an October day, as the inhabitants of a village street in Tripoli are engaged in the enjoyment of their several pursuits of life, an Arab rushes upon the peaceful scene, announcing that Italy has declared war against Turkey and that the Italian warships are now in the harbor, shelling the city.