List of Disney animated shorts 1940-1944
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- DirectorDick LundyStarsBilly BletcherClarence NashConstruction foreman Pegleg Pete has just fired his riveter; Donald comes by and takes the job, despite a lack of experience and an initial fear of heights, and makes a mess of things.
- DirectorJack KingStarsLee MillarClarence NashDonald attempts to entice Pluto to try his automated dog washer, but is unexpectedly caught himself and is scrubbed, and hung on the line to dry.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsWalt DisneyClarence NashDanny WebbAs Mickey, Donald and Goofy are preparing their tugboat to head out to sea, they receive a distress call from a sinking ship. This program is presented as originally created.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsClarence NashDanny WebbDonald and Goofy are putting up advertising posters in a farm. Goofy prepares to post on a windmill, but his tools keep disappearing and reappearing on the windmill blades. Donald puts up his posters, a picture of a soup can, and a goat eats them immediately. Goofy gets stuck to his poster after it comes around on the windmill. Donald, being his calm, even-tempered self, gets into a battle with the goat.
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashDonald's frustration level is stretched to the limit when he attempts to court Daisy without the interference of his nephews.
- DirectorJack KinneyStarsLee MillarJames MacDonaldClarence NashPluto's dish is empty, so he goes after the bone in the dish of Butch the bulldog, who is sleeping next door. Can he make it home with the bone before Butch wakes up? No. Soon they are chasing each other through a deserted carnival, into a hall of mirrors. Pluto takes advantage of one set of mirrors to scare Butch off.
- DirectorRiley ThomsonStarsLee MillarClarence NashA day of boating doesn't end up the way Donald and Pluto had hoped.
- DirectorJack KingStarsJames MacDonaldClarence NashDonald takes a kayak trip. When he gets to his campsite, he unloads the kayak, fights with his folding chair, and goes to sleep. Meanwhile, the chipmunks of the forest (precursors of Chip 'n Dale), attracted by his squawking, make off with the huge pile of food he carelessly unloaded. They get the attention of a bear, who Donald is soon battling.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsElvia AllmanW.F. BanesWalt DisneyMickey Mouse finds a magic lamp that builds Pluto a doghouse.
- DirectorRiley ThomsonStarsCharles JudelsClarence NashThe Volunteer Worker, a commercial short made by Disney to emphasize the importance of volunteer work and charity. The short is a simple one - Donald goes door to door asking for donations, but keeps getting the door slammed in his face. There are some fun gags, but nothing too groundbreaking. It's in the choice of Donald and the message that sends that makes this interesting. Sure, Donald was Disney's biggest star, but if you think about generosity or kindness, you probably don't immediately think of Donald. The ultimate aim of the short is to show that if everyone gave a little, then everyone would be better off. This is demonstrated at the end, when a street construction guy gives Donald some money and gets a shiny badge in return. It's a brilliant choice, even if it might have been inadvertent. Donald is the character that most of us really are, as opposed to Mickey, who we want to be. That's what makes him so reliable. And by picking him to illustrate this point, it makes it more impactful to us.
- DirectorJack KingStarsLee MillarClarence NashDonald Duck is a window washer who has problems, from his hat and tail feather being trimmed to waking up Pluto to break the window. And finally tormenting a bee, getting tied up on the platform only to have his rear end stung by a bee.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsElvia AllmanBilly BletcherWalt DisneyMickey and Pluto are taking a trip on the train, but Conductor Pete won't allow Pluto aboard. After sneaking Pluto onto the train in his luggage, Mickey must do some quick thinking and don a few disguises to keep from getting kicked off.
- DirectorJack KinneyStarsFlorence GillGeorge JohnsonJohn McLeishGoofy's new sport: flying his glider (without much success).
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashDonald and his nephews are the staff of a fire station. Huey, Dewey, and Louie, annoyed by Donald's snoring, ring the fire alarm. Soon, his bumbling sets the fire station itself on fire. They race off at the alarm, not realizing they are already at the destination, and the firefighting efforts go downhill from there.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsLee MillarLillian RandolphPluto is tied up in the backyard and has been ordered by the maid to stay outside while she prepares a roast. Of course, once Pluto smells the scent of the roast, he makes a beeline for the kitchen. Unfortuantely, staying undiscovered proves difficult for Pluto once he gets inside particularly after he inhales a bucket of soapy water and starts sneezing.
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashBilly BletcherHobo Donald steals dinner off Pegleg Pete's table. Pete gives Donald a stick of dynamite. Then he puts Donald to work chopping trees. To say Donald is an inept lumberjack is understating the case. After several mishaps, Pete/Pierre chases Donald on railroad handcars.
- DirectorNorman FergusonStarsPinto ColvigLee MillarPluto is playing with a ball on the beach. The ball goes into the water and starts moving in strange ways, because a sea lion is playing with it. Pluto does not want to share the ball, and eventually tries to bury it, but the sea lion is too clever. Pluto goes after the sea lion, but has to tangle with a persistent octopus. The sea lion saves Pluto, and resuscitates him, so Pluto agrees to play.
- DirectorJames AlgarWilfred JacksonRiley ThomsonStarsThelma BoardmanWalt DisneyMickey wants some of the cake Minnie has just baked, so he offers to clean up her yard. As he's working, a tiny tornado (smaller than him) with a mind of its own comes along and causes trouble. After Mickey finally chases the little twister off, it gets its big brother, which makes a grand mess of the yard. Most of the cartoon, except for the opening and closing, has no dialogue.
- DirectorWilfred JacksonStarsCarol AdamsBarbara BrewsterGloria BrewsterDonald reads in his newspaper that eggs are really going up in value and the price is skyrocketing. Donald realizes that if he had some eggs, he would be quite the wealthy duck so he breaks into a nearby hen-house and collects as many eggs as possible putting them all in a huge basket. Unfortunately, a rooster standing guard makes his presence known and ejects Donald. The inventive duck is able to get back in disguised as a female chicken who the rooster falls for and dances with. Unfortunately, with the rubber glove comb constantly coming loose and a caterpillar falling down the back of his suit, he is ever at the risk of being discovered.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsWalt DisneyLee MillarMickey Mouse lies in bed like a lord, getting served breakfast by man's (and mouse's?) best friend Pluto as gentleman's gentleman. Next duty is to fetch the paper, but also pay for it with a coin for the vending machine, and those round things have a nasty habit of escaping a dog's teeth and bouncing over the pavement till they end up in the gutter. After enough attempts to fish and spend the penny, Pluto has a newspaper to carry the same way. The wind has a nasty way to get a better grip on page after page then the dog, so by the time he delivers the daily dose of printed news it's an embarrassingly muddy mess...
- DirectorJack KinneyStarsBarbara BrewsterGloria BrewsterEllen DrewGoofy has to get a box belonging to a magician in time for the next train to pick the baggage. Clumsy Goofy drops the box and a lot of magician's props (a rabbit which multiplies, a bull, a woman sawed in half) appear.
- DirectorJack KingDick LundyStarsClarence NashA simple visit to the penny arcade turns into quite a frustrating experience for Donald.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsPinto ColvigWalt DisneyPluto gets into trouble with a gopher while caddieing for Mickey, and the tunnels they make during the chase wreck the golf course.
- DirectorRiley ThomsonStarsThelma BoardmanBill DaysWalt DisneyMickey courts Minnie in the Gay Nineties: they take in a vaudeville show and go for a drive in his horseless carriage, to the strains of "While Strolling Through the Park" and "In the Good Old Summertime". Goofy rides by on a penny-farthing bicycle, and the whole Duck family rides by on a bicycle built for five.
- DirectorJack KingStarsClarence NashDonald spends the night unable to sleep because of a ticking alarm clock and a fold-away bed that keeps trapping him when it folds up.