"A Donald Duck Cartoon"

Release Date January 26, 1945

Synopsis

Donald takes a job as a gift wrapper in a department store.

Characters

Donald Duck

Credits

Director : Jack King

Videos

United States

A Disney Christmas Gift

Germany

Donald Duck's 50 Verrückte Jahre

France

Bon Anniversaire Donald

Italy

I 50 Anni Folli di Paperino

Laserdiscs

United States

A Disney Christmas Gift

Japan

Donald Duck : A Star is Born

Donald Duck's 50 Crazy Years

DVD

United States

Cartoon Classics Favorites : Holiday Celebration with Mickey and Pals

Disney Treasures : The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 2

Television

Donald's Quack Attack : Episode #50

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 Ryan : I enjoy this Donald Duck short quite a bit. It shows how well Donald can take orders from a loudspeaker. One fun gag I enjoy is when Donald takes a trombone and tries to fit it in a box. It is too large, so he shapes it into a french horn. One part that was rather unusual for a Disney short was where Donald sees a sexually attractive female model and his face turns into that of a Tex Avery-type of wolf.

From Baruch Weiss : Like Ryan I liked this short quite a bit as well. However it's been a long time since I've seen it and I did not see Donalds face turn into a Tex Avery type of wolf. I believe throughout most of the cartoon he does not talk. The last time I saw this short was on "Donalds Quack Attack." For some reason Disney does not play their shorts on TV anymore and I wonder why.

From Trae Robinson : This is my favorite Donald Duck cartoon. Donald works in a huge store and he goofs instead of working. I wonder why Donald is all by himself in this cartoon. It's kind of like "Early To Bed", "Chef Donald" and "Donald's Tire Trouble" where Donald is the only character.

From Matthew Cooper : I first saw parts of this short on a small Disney Christmas Special on television, when I was young. It was not till my mom and dad bought me "The Chronological Donald, Volume II" that I saw the full cartoon. Anyway, this short is full of nice gags like the one where Donald is to wrap a football and ring and he puts the ring in the football box and then deflates the football when it wont fit in the ring box, or when he's wrapping a rocking chair and gets stuck in the wrap, with his head and arms sticking out. Best of all is the end gag, where Donald is trying to squeeze a jack-in-the-box into its box, and finally gets in contact with it, ending up in the jack's clothes while the jack is wearing his!

I have seen "The Clock Watcher" and would like to
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