Mickey's Mellerdrammer Mellerdrammer", Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Goofy (known then as Dippy Dawg) and others present their own low budget light-hearted rendition of the 19th century Tom Shows for a crowd in a barn converted into a theater for the occasion. Horace Horsecollar plays the white slave owner Simon Legree. Minnie plays the young white girl, Eva. Mickey plays old Uncle Tom with cotton around his ears and chin, and the young slave girl Topsy. Clarabelle Cow plays the slave woman Eliza. Goofy plays the production stage hand. The cartoon opens with Mickey and Clarabelle Cow in their dressing rooms applying blackface
Dippy (London) was unveiled for public display. Dippy started a tour of British museums in February 2018, mounted on a new more mobile armature. Over the following three years, Dippy will be exhibited at locations around the UK: Dorset County Museum (10 February - 7 May 2018), Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (26 May - 9 September 2018), Ulster Museum (17 September 2018 - 6 January 2019), Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Great North Museum, the National Assembly for Wales, Number One Riverside in Rochdale, and Norwich Cathedral. Dippy (London) Dippy is a plaster cast replica of the fossilised bones of