Window Cleaners (1940)
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- Approved
- 8min
- Animation, Short
- 20 Sep 1940 (USA)
- Short
Donald 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.
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Cast
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Lee Millar | ... |
Pluto (uncredited) (voice)
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| Clarence Nash | ... |
Donald Duck (uncredited) (voice)
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Directed by
| Jack King | ... | (uncredited) |
Written by
| Carl Barks | ... | () (uncredited) |
| Jack Hannah | ... | () (uncredited) |
Produced by
| Walt Disney | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Music by
| Paul J. Smith | ... | (uncredited) |
| Oliver Wallace | ... | (uncredited) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
| Bob Newman | ... | assistant director (uncredited) |
Sound Department
| George Lowerre | ... | sound engineer (uncredited) |
Animation Department
| Paul Allen | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Wilma Baker | ... | ink and paint artist (uncredited) |
| Rex Cox | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Art Elliott | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Emery Hawkins | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Bill Herwig | ... | layout artist (uncredited) |
| Hal King | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Dick Lundy | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Lee Morehouse | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Chic Otterstrom | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Ray Patin | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Ken Peterson | ... | animator (uncredited) |
| Ruth Tompson | ... | ink and paint (uncredited) |
| Judge Whitaker | ... | animator (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- RKO Radio Pictures (1940) (United States) (theatrical)
- Buena Vista Pictures
- Walt Disney Home Video (2004) (United States) (DVD)
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Storyline
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Donald is washing windows on a high-rise; Pluto is his assistant, hauling the rope for the platform and refilling buckets but mostly sleeping. And when things are finally going well, Donald makes the mistake of tormenting a bee.
Written by Jon Reeves |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | This is the first 1940 Donald Duck cartoon to feature Spike the Bee who's a rival of Donald Duck. When Donald Duck teased him, he would get his revenge by attempting to sting Donald Ducks tail feathers which he finally did at the end. Spike the Bee would be in later Donald Duck Cartoons such as "Inferior Decorator" 1948, "Honey Harvester" 1949, "Slide, Donald, Slide", 1949. "Bee at the Beach" 1950 and "Let's Stick Together" 1952 always attempting to sting Donald Ducks tail feathers which Spike the Bee does in the end. See more » |
| Goofs | The bucket that Donald drops after whacking the flagpole with it makes a brief reappearance in the next shot, after he falls to the platform - then disappears again. (Arguably, it's a different bucket, but it still disappears without reason.) See more » |
| Movie Connections | Edited into Donald Duck's Frantic Antic (1975). See more » |
| Quotes |
Donald Duck:
[singing]
I'm flying high, up in the sky, watching the world go by. See more » |