Today’s mice are the mice from Disney’s The Old Mill!
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🎃 TJ MIKELOGAN'S HALLOWEEN 2023 EVENT 🎃
DAY 11: A non-scary Halloween movie or series
HALLOWEEN VIA DISNEY+
Halloweentown (1998) dir. Duwayne Dunham
Haunted Mansion (2023) dir. Justin Simien
Loki (2021 - ) dir. Kate Herron
Lonesome Ghosts (1937) dir. Burt Gillett
Moon Knight (2022) dir. Mohamed Diab, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
The Old Mill (1937) dir. Wilfred Jackson and Graham Heid
The Scream Team (2002) dir. Stuart Gillard
Trick or Treat (1952) dir. Jack Hannah
Wandavision (2021) dir. Matt Shakman
Werewolf by Night (2022) dir. Michael Giacchino
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Black Bottom Pie
From The Old Mill in An Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
History
The Old Mill is a pretty important short to the history of animation. It was the first cartoon to use the multiplane camera, which helped to give perspective to shots.
It was a camera with multiple levels to place foreground and background stuff, so you could zoom into shots while keeping those background and foreground layers separate.
Food
Now the only food featured in the short is the bugs and worms that the various creatures eat. While these things are technically edible for humans, I'm not going that route sorry.
So my next thought was candy, like gummi worms, instead, and what better way to eat gummi worms but in a dirt cake?
Only dirt cake and gummy worms didn't come out until the 1980s. You had gummi bears, but not worms yet. Also instant pudding still wasn't a thing in the 1930s.
So in my research I discovered that Mississippi Mud Pies were a precursor to Dirt Cakes. However this was for 50s and 60s when pudding packets hit the shelves. It is the Black Bottom Pie that predates the Mud Pie.
So here is a Great Depression Black Bottom Pie, and if you want to forgo the historical and throw some gummi worms on top, I won't blame you.
Ingredients
2 cups sugar
2 large egg yokes
4 tablespoons cocoa
2 cups milk
2 to 3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
2 large egg whites
3/4 tablespoons sugar
2 prepared pie crusts, baked (either homemade OR store-bought)
Cookware
Whisk
Mixing bowl
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Beat egg yolks in a separate bowl.
Sift dry ingredients together into a saucepan.
Add the butter and the milk.
Mix
Mix in the beaten egg yolks.
Cook on medium heat until mixture thickens, stirring regularly.
When mixture reaches "pudding" consistency, pour into baked pie shells.
Beat the egg whites with 3/4 tablespoon sugar until stiff peaks form.
Spread over cooling pie filling.
Bake for 10 minutes OR until merigue peaks turn golden
Cool and serve.
We're almost done with the classic era, and An Academy Review of Walt Disney Cartoons. Only one more short to go.
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The Old Mill, Little Rock, Arkansas
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A survey and research project conducted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation reveals that locations in rural communities throughout the country referred to as "The Old" something (The Old Mill, The Old Church, The Old Barnhouse, &c.) are in an incredible 86 percent of cases less than half as old as the oldest building still in use in the area. Said Christopher Arthur, lead archivist on the project, "People call buildings old because they look abandoned or broken down, not because there's a detailed local cultural history connected to the place."
When the information-gathering phase of the project concluded in 2018, the newest "Old" place discovered was "The Old Library" in Wisconsin, Minnesota, which remarkably was built in 2015, several months after the team began their investigation.
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