"A Donald Duck Cartoon"

Release Date April 21, 1944

Synopsis

While mountain climbing in the Andes, Donald is taken under the wing of a mother condor who mistakes him for one of her newborn babies.

Characters

Donald Duck

Credits

Director : Jack King

Story : Rex Cox

Videos

Germany

Donald Duck's 50 Verrückte Jahre

Happy Birthday Donald!

France

Bon Anniversaire Donald

Italy

I 50 Anni Folli di Paperino

Le Avventure di Caccia del Prof. de Paperis

Paperino 60 Anni in Allegria

Laserdiscs

Japan

Donald's Birthday Bash

The Hunting Instinct

Donald Duck's 50 Crazy Years

DVD

United States

Disney Treasures : The Chronological Donald Duck Volume 2

Walt Disney's Funny Factory with Donald

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #54 : More Goin' to the Birds

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 : While I find this short quite humorous, it really doesn't interest me. Donald Duck is in the Andes, studying condors. He takes a giant condor egg and it hatches. Donald hides in the egg as the mother returns. When she sits on him, he gets too hot and nudges her. She then thinks Donald is her baby.

From Baruch Weiss : This short is okay, but it is not one of my favorites. However, I liked the part where Donald was in the egg. He then checks his thermometer and it breaks because it was so hot in the egg. Donald sure went into a lot of trouble to get into it, he probably got bad influence from Mickey in the 1936 cartoon 'Alpine Climbers'.

From Bryan Hensley : One of the world's least appreciated scientists is the Ornotholigist, or egg collector to you. And small wonder; Donald tried to steal an unhatched condor egg while its older sibling was watching! I never did think that condors would sound like chickens, like they did in this short. If I was in Donald's predicament inside the egg, I would melt! Just look at this short from either volume 2 of Disney's Funny Factory collection, or the Classic Caballeros Collection DVD, and you'll see why egg collectors have a tough career. Even from one who came from an egg, like Donald Duck for instance. So you see how difficult it is to get the egg, without getting the bird. The Andes are no picnic to climb just by hearing of how tall they are! (Unless you have plungers tied to your feet.) I hope you enjoy this South American egg-collecting adventure of height-dizzying proportions!

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