"A Donald Duck Cartoon"

Release Date August 30, 1946

Synopsis

Donald heads to the Yukon Territory to hunt up a fur coat for Daisy.

Characters

Donald Duck

Daisy Duck (cameo)

Credits

Director : Jack King

Animators

Don Townsley

Fred Kopietz

Ed Aardal

Sandy Strother

Story

Harry Reeves

Homer Brightman

Music : Oliver Wallace

Layout : Ernest Nordli

Background : Ernest Nordli

Cut Scenes

A scene showing a hanging Donald was snipped out.

Videos

United States

Cartoon Classics : Limited Gold Editions : Daisy

Italy

Il Meglio di Disney

Laserdiscs

Japan

All Star Cartoon Review

Daisy : Limited Gold Edition

DVD

United States

Disney Treasures : The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 2

Television

Mickey's Mouse Tracks : Episode 29

Donald's Quack Attack : Episode 2

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 Jesus Daprice : This was a great short to watch, but I don't know how much an animal activist will enjoy it. It might make them a little upset.

From Ryan : I find this short to be quite humorous. Donald captures a bear cub and takes it to his cabin so that he can make a fur coat for Daisy. Daisy's only appearance in this short is when Donald imagines the bear cub as Daisy with her new fur coat. He then kisses the imaginary Daisy. The cub pushes him aside and starts spitting. When I was a kid, it made me a little nervous (not in a bad way) when the mother bear followed Donald's tracks over to his cabin to retrieve her baby. When shown on TV, this short is missing a scene with Donald choking on the trap he made for the bear cub. The following scene is not censored: Donald cuts up a fur coat and disguises himself as the bear cub when the mother has entered the cabin. He then shouts "Mammy!" in an African-American stereotype pose. I don't understand why the scene with Donald choking was censored. I mean, small children aren't going to start choking themselves. Many of these edits don't make any sense to me at all.

From Baruch Weiss : Donald sure went to a lot of trouble to get into trouble; he should have just gone to Nordstroms to get a fur coat, but then the cartoon might have been boring. Isn't it odd that on TV a scene showing a hanging Donald was snipped out, but not when he shouts "MAMMY!" in an African American stereotype pose nor the scene where he's thinking of different methods to kill the bear? These edits don't make any sense to me either!

From Matthew Cooper : I agree with the others who wrote about this short that the cut scene (Donald choking in a hanging noose) wasn't that bad. Although, the scene where Donald dresses up as the baby bear and shouts MAMMY! much like an African-American stereotype character is thought by others to be a bad part, I disagree, for when I saw this short as a kid, I thought Donald said Mommy until I listened more closely about 60 years later. So therefore, I think that most people wouldn't be able to understand that's the word because of Donald's quackety voice, but I really think the scene where Donald is thinking of ways to kill the cub should have been cut! Reasons I like this cartoon are the ending where Donald gets kicked out of his costume by the cub, and crashes into a self where a jar of honey falls off the top and smashes on his head. Seeing Donald through the empty costume, the mother bear roars angrily and goes to attack him, but when she smells the honey, she picks him up in her paws and begins to lick the honey off, being joined by her son later. Also I like the shot of Daisy in the fur coat, she looks very sexy!

Donald finds a new friend. Animation sketch courtesy of Van Eaton Galleries

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