This is a rather funny Mickey cartoon, where he runs a radio station from his barn. His friends play various musical numbers there, but they were interrupted by a cat and his litter of kittens. Annoying little felines, but hilarious results as poor Mickey try to contain the situation. I got some laugh-out-loud moments watching this one. Grade B+

This is an early Disney short featuring Mickey Mouse. There will be spoilers ahead:This is essentially a musical cartoon along the lines of The Barnyard Concert, only Mickey is broadcaster as opposed to conductor. The musicians are Horace, Clarabelle and Minnie. There's something of a continuity error early on, when Horace, playing a violin in a trio, walks into the studio carrying a violin case, but the tune being played by the trio moments earlier can still be heard. Horace plays a musical saw solo.About halfway through the short, a cat comes into the "studio" and begins meowing, thus disturbing the broadcast. The rest of the cartoon is dominated by the cat, first solo and then with four kittens, being chased (unsuccessfully) by Mickey, who's efforts to get rid of the cats wind up being a greater disruption to the broadcast than the cats prove to be. There are some nice gags in here, mostly involving cats.This short is available on the Mickey Mouse In Black and White, Volume Two Disney Treasures DVD set and is well worth tracking down.

If it wasn't for the appearance of some annoying cats late in the cartoon, "The Barnyard Broadcast" wouldn't be worth your time. After all, most of the cartoon consists of Mickey and his friends playing music--a concept that wears very, very thin very quickly. Fortunately, late in the film, a single cat appears and messes up the radio broadcast. And, soon, the cat's kittens appear and REALLY mess up the broadcast. It's clever and absolutely saves the cartoon--and makes it all worth seeing.By the way, this is an odd cartoon if you think about it. Mickey is a VERY large mouse and he spends much of the picture chasing the cats instead of the other way around!! use chasing cats?!

A Walt Disney MICKEY MOUSE Cartoon.THE BARNYARD BROADCAST from Mickey's Station ICU is disrupted by the persistent depredations of a stray cat & her incorrigible kittens.This enjoyable black & white film shows a little more about the euterpian versatility of Mickey's friends: Clarabelle Cow tickles the ivories, while Horace Horsecollar is proficient on both the violin and the musical saw & Minnie delights with the saxophone and harp. The scene showing the kittens attempting to nurse off of the electrical equipment dials is a bit of an eye-opener. Walt Disney supplies Mickey's squeaky voice.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi, Peter Pan and Mr. Toad. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.