The Hot Choc-late Soldiers
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| Directed by | Walt Disney |
| Story by | Howard Dietz Arthur Kober |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Narrated by | Freeman High |
| Animation by | Leonard Sebring Cy Young Louie Schmitt Ben Sharpsteen Fred Moore Roy Williams Jack Kinney Frank Oreb Milt Schaffer Bob Kuwahara Ugo D'Orsi Joe D'Igalo |
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| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 5 minutes, 4 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Hot Choc-late Soldiers, also stylized as The Hot Chocolate Soldiers, is an American animated short film that was made by Walt Disney Productions for MGM's 1934 film Hollywood Party, which premiered on June 1, 1934. It is prefaced in the film by a scene where Mickey Mouse appears at the party, performs a brief Durante impression, and then sits down at a piano, after which The Hot Choc-late Soldiers begins to play. Due to stipulations in the contract between Disney and Turner Entertainment, the short was edited out of the film when it was screened on TNT, however Turner was able to negotiate the licenses so that the footage was included in a 1992 VHS release of Hollywood Party and for subsequent releases.
The short contains no vocals other than a song performed by Don Wilson that describes the events of the cartoon.