"A Donald Duck Cartoon"
Synopsis
- Donald enlists the help of a flying squirrel to hang a sign in a nearby tree for his peanut stand, but the squirrel has to take revenge when Donald renegs on his half of the deal.
Characters
Credits
Note : credits verified through opening screenshot
- Director : Jack Hannah
- Animation
- Effects Animation : Dan MacManus
- Story
- Layout : Yale Gracey
- Background : Ray Huffine
- Music : Oliver Wallace
Cut Scenes
- A scene where Donald pours gasoline into his popcorn machine and uses it as a machine gun was cut out.
Videos
- Germany
- Italy
Laserdiscs
DVD
- Region 1 : United States
- Disney Treasures : The Chronological Donald Duck : Volume 4 : 1951-1961
Television
- The Ink and Paint Club : #30 : 50's Donald
- Mickey's Mouse Tracks : Episode 46
- Donald's Quack Attack : Episode 18
Technical Specifications
- Color Type Technicolor
- Animation type Standard
- Sound mix Mono
- Aspect ratio 1.37 : 1
- Negative format 35mm
- Print format 35mm
- Cinematographic process Spherical
- Original language English
Released by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc
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From Graham Hackett : This is another really neat short. In this short Donald is strolling through the park as a peanut seller.(of course this was during the days where not much people new about peanut allergies). He see's a flying squirrel nearby and since it can fly he enlists the help of it to hang up and advertisement banner. The squirrel refuses. Donald picks a peanut out of the peanut cooker and seeing the peanut, the flying squirrel then decides to help. The squirrel opens the peanut to eat it but the inside of it turns out to be a piece of coal. Feeling ripped off, the squirrel complains to Donald about the undercooked peanut. Donald just says "Sorry! the complaint department is closed!" then laughs. Deciding to get even, the squirrel finds a box of "Quacker Jacks" pulls out the prizes which are two pistols and a Cowboy hat and gets an Idea and the war begins.
From Ryan : Donald is a peanut vendor working in the city park. A flying squirrel, who wants a peanut, agrees to help Donald hang a banner from one tree to another in exchange for a peanut. The peanut that the squirrel gets has nothing but an old peanut that turns to dust inside the shell and war pursues. I do not care for this cartoon at all for two reasons:
1. It is another one of those hero vs. cute animal shorts
2. The animation and background art was done very cheaply. I guess by this time, Disney was shutting down their shorts department and did not have the money to produce high-quality animation.
From Baruch Weiss : This short got old when the peanut the squirrel got was rotten and fights with Donald throughout the rest of the cartoon so I can't say this is my favorite Donald Duck cartoon. However, the squirrel was cute and I enjoy cute, but other than that I didn't like it, gets an F.
