Thru the Mirror is a Mickey Mouse cartoon short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists in 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. The title is written as Thru the Mirror on the title card, but the alternative spelling Through the Mirror is used on the poster for the film. Plot Mickey falls asleep after reading Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass and dreams that he passes through a mirror above a fireplace into an alternate reality. Beyond the mirror, his furniture and possessions have come to life and he clumsily tangles with a rocking chair, a footrest and an umbrella. Mickey eats a walnut offered to him by a nutcracker and it causes his lower body to spin around crazily. It also causes him to crazily grow until his head hits the ceiling, and then suddenly shrink to a tiny size. The telephone answers itself and hauls Mickey up to the top of a desk with its cord. After a fruitless conversation, the phone uses its cord to amuse Mickey with a game of jump rope. The skipping turns into a tap dance, and the radio turns itself on to play a tune. Grabbing a tiny top hat and a matchstick for a cane, Mickey performs a tap dance routine, using a regular-size top hat as his platform. He has another dance scene with a pair of gloves, in which Mickey's buttocks get kicked three times, and then he becomes the leader of a marching set of playing cards. Mickey gets shuffled into the pack and he gets his buttocks hit by the cards, which turns into another dance routine. Mickey dances with the Queen of Hearts (Appearance inspired by Greta Garbo) until the King of Hearts (Appearance inspired by Charles Laughton as Henry VIII) notices and slaps Mickey for his insolence. Mickey and the King have a furious swordfight, with Mickey using a straight pin as a sword after the King pushes him and gets his