The Plastics Inventor

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The Plastics Inventor
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Jack King
Story by Jack Hannah
Dick Shaw
Carl Barks (uncredited)
Produced by Walt Disney
Starring Clarence Nash
Music by Oliver Wallace
Animation by Don Towsley
Paul Allen
Bill Justice
Brad Case
Layouts by Ernie Nordli
Backgrounds byMerle Cox
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • September 1, 1944 (1944-09-01)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Plastics Inventor is a Disney animated short from 1944, produced in Technicolor by RKO Radio Pictures, featuring Donald Duck. [1]

Contents

Plot

Donald Duck makes an airplane made of plastic, following instructions from a radio. The cartoon begins with Donald listening to the radio, and has a massive pile of junk, just enough to invent his plastic airplane. After Donald completes his plastic invention, the radio reminds Donald to make his helmet.

Then Donald decides to test pilot his plastic airplane in the sky, bringing the radio along with him. During the flight, the radio explains one fault; to not let the plastic airplane melt in water. Unfortunately, a rainstorm starts pouring and the plastic airplane begins to melt, with Donald attempting to repair it with extreme difficulty.

The airplane eventually melts away completely, forming into a parachute as Donald lands safely on a tulip patch. Donald, now angry at the radio, waters the radio with a watering can, melting it to liquid, ending the cartoon.

Voice cast

Home media

The short was released on December 6, 2005, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Two: 1942-1946 . [2]

References

  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  2. "The Chronological Donald Volume 2 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved February 13, 2021.