Running Time 6:52

Synopsis

A companion piece to the previous years' "How to Have an Accident at Home" follows the same accident-prone Donald to the workplace.

Characters

Donald Duck

J. J. Fate

Credits

Director : Charles Nichols

Animation

Jerry Hathcock

George Nicholas

Harvey Toombs

Fred Kopietz

Effects Animation : Jack Buckley

Story

Jack Kinney

Bill Berg

Layout : Erni Nordli

Background : Al Dempster

Music : Oliver Wallace

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #30 : 50's Donald

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ration : 2.35 : 1 Cinemascope

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by Buena Vista Pictures, Inc.

Comments

From Sanger Harris : "How to Have an Accident at Work," along with "Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom," "Melody," and its companion, "How to Have an Accident at Home," represents the epitome of stylized Disney cartoons. The backgrounds are very abstract and colorful and the characters (even our hero Donald) are painted with thick black lines. Interestingly, this cartoon is also significant as one of the last theatrical shorts produced by Disney, save those infrequent 15- to 30-minute shorts that popped up about once every ten years (e.i., "It's Tough to be a Bird," "Vincent," "Mickey's Christmas Carol," etc.)

From Graham Hackett : This short continues on from How to have an accident at work where Donald is welcomed by a lot of catastrophies including a machine somehow eating up his sandwich etc. Which leads to him ending up in the hospital wing.

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