Golden Eggs (film)

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Golden Eggs
Directed by Wilfred Jackson
Story by Carl Barks
Jack Hannah
Produced by Walt Disney
Starring Clarence Nash
Florence Gill
Music by Leigh Harline
Animation by Paul Allen
Ted Bonnicksen
Bob Carlson
Walt Clinton
Russ Dyson
Bernard Wolf
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • March 7, 1941 (1941-03-07)
Running time
8 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Golden Eggs is a 1941 American animated short film directed by Wilfred Jackson and produced by Walt Disney, featuring Donald Duck. [1]

Contents

Plot

Donald reads a newspaper that the eggs' value is really high and the price amount is increased; he thinks that he could get rich, so he goes into the henhouse and changes the music from the record player. While the hens are dancing and popping their eggs out, Donald collects them and puts them into a huge basket.

A rooster standing guard reveals Donald and kicks him out. Donald is trying to avoid the rooster, so he disguises himself as a hen. He is mistaken for the rooster's love interest. They dance together, but Donald's disguise falls off. With the rubber glove comb constantly coming loose and a caterpillar falling down the back of his suit, Donald is ever at the risk of being discovered.

Donald then forced to dance with the rooster, but at the climax he spins like a tornado, so strong that all of his disguise falls off. The rooster then see through the masquerade and resumes chasing him. Donald grab the huge basket of eggs, but two fell out and he slipped right into the basket, cracking all the eggs in the process. With the rooster crowing in victory, Donald mumbling at his defeat.

Voice cast

Reception

The Film Daily called the short a "funny cartoon", saying that "Donald runs afoul of the rooster, boss of the barnyard, and is a sadder and wiser man before the rooster finishes with him." [2]

Television

Home media

The short was released on May 18, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941 . [3]

Additional releases include:

References

  1. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "Reviews of Short Subjects". The Film Daily . 79 (76): 10. April 18, 1941. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "The Chronological Donald Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.


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