"A Donald Duck Cartoon"

Release Date March 7, 1941

Running Time 7:58

Synopsis

Donald is having a hard time harvesting eggs from the henhouse, so he goes in disguise as a hen to get them.

Characters

Donald Duck

Credits

Director : Wilfred Jackson

Animation

Bernie Wolf

Ed Aardal

Story : Carl Barks

Videos

Germany

Donald Duck die Grösste Schau der Welt

France

Donald Superstar

Italy

Buon Compleanno Paperino

Laserdiscs

Japan

Donald's Golden Jubilee

DVD

United States

Disney Treasures : The Chronological Donald Volume 1 : (1934-1941)

Cartoon Classics Favorites: Starring Donald

Television

Donald's Quack Attack : Episode 10

Mickey's Mouse Tracks : Episode 67

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor

Animation type : Standard

Sound mix : Mono

Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1

Negative format : 35mm

Print format : 35mm

Cinematographic process : Spherical

Original language : English

Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

Comments

From Ross : This is definitely a classic Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck. First of all, this Disney cartoon has wonderful animation, it's very well-timed, and it's very funny. It has lots of slapstick humor similar to that of the Three Stooges. Anyway, about this Disney cartoon, Donald reads in the newspaper that the price of eggs has skyrocketed to 85 cents a dozen. Donald goes outside to the chicken house, and he grabs all the eggs, but a rooster won't let Donald near the eggs, so Donald disguises himself as a chicken so that he can get the eggs and become rich. I love this Donald Duck cartoon very much because of the scenes when the rooster falls in love with Donald's chicken disguise, the scene when the caterpillar crawls onto Donald's back, and the scene when Donald and the rooster are dancing to rhumba music. This cartoon also has great music that you can dance to, and that's why I love this classic Disney cartoon.

From Andrew : A fun short. Donald apparently beat Bugs Bunny to cross-dressing by a few years at least. He looks disturbingly "authentic" in some scenes where he even has long eyelashes and dimpled cheeks.

From Julie Arsenault : Clarence Nash and Florence Gill had never sounded so good as in this Donald Duck cartoon. In this cartoon, Donald has read in the paper that the price of eggs sky-rocket to 85 cents a dozen (Liquid Gold); Sure it might not much today, but I it must a lot back then. So he decides to harvest eggs from the henhouse for profit; But not when a protective rooster's on watch; So he tries disguising himself as a hen.

I love this cartoon, it is one of my favorite Donald shorts from 1941. I love it when Donald flips the record from "Lazy Daze" music to "Hot Stuff" jitter-bug music to speed up production (with eggs 85 cents); And also when encounters the rooster :

"Oh Boy!"

*zips*

"Oh No!"

It is funny to see Donald as a hen, and it's amazing that Ducky Nash could cluck like a chicken in his Donald voice; Donald is the first duck to be masquerading in the guise of a chicken, because it was also done in a Daffy Duck cartoon "You were never Duckier" but in a different situtation.

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