Toy Tinkers

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Toy Tinkers
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Directed by Jack Hannah
Story byHarry Reeves
Milt Banta
Produced by Walt Disney
Starring Clarence Nash
Dessie Flynn
Jimmy MacDonald
Music by Paul J. Smith
Animation byBob Carlson
Volus Jones
Bill Justice
Jack Boyd (effects)
Layouts by Yale Gracey
Backgrounds byThelma Witmer
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • December 16, 1949 (1949-12-16)
(US)
Running time
7:30
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Toy Tinkers is an American animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on December 16, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures. [1] Set during Christmas time, the film shows Chip 'n' Dale trying to steal nuts from Donald Duck's home using toy weapons. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1950, [2] but ultimately lost to Warner Bros'. For Scent-imental Reasons , a Pepé Le Pew Looney Tunes film directed by Chuck Jones.

Contents

Toy Tinkers was directed by Jack Hannah and features original and adapted music by Paul J. Smith which includes the song "Jingle Bells" and Schubert's Marche Militaire . The voice cast includes Clarence Nash as Donald and Jimmy MacDonald and Dessie Flynn as Chip and Dale respectively. [3] [4] [5]

It was later reissued as Christmas Capers, and 16mm prints of this version still exist.

Plot

Chip and Dale's curiosity leads them into Donald's house after they see him chop down a tree near their log home to use as a Christmas tree. The chipmunks follow Donald to his house and see nuts and candy through a window, deciding to try to take them. They slip in through the mail slot and load the nuts into a toy truck. During the theft, Dale pretends to be in a make-believe neighborhood, before Chip beats him up for playing around.

Donald sees Chip and Dale stealing the nuts and uses the toys to foil them. When the chipmunks catch on, Donald disguises himself as Santa Claus and gives Chip a much larger present than Dale, making him jealous and start fighting with Chip. Donald is laughs at the chipmunks arguing before revealing that inside the large nut is a handgun. He holds them at gunpoint, crashes them in a toy police car, and fires nuts from a pop gun at them. The chipmunks retaliate with a toy cannon when Donald encroaches on them.

Angered, Donald sets up a fort of presents on one side of the living room and returns fire with Chip and Dale doing likewise. Dale covertly sneaks a candlestick telephone into Donald's fort which Chip uses to distract Donald to transmit direct cannon fire. A frustrated Donald loads the phone with a stick of dynamite, but it doesn't explode. When the chipmunks call him again, he answers and the dynamite explodes. Having incapacitated Donald, the chipmunks march back home, and in a scene reminiscent of The Spirit of '76 , employ the help of the mechanical toys to transport the hoard of nuts.

Voice cast

Adaptations

A comic book adaptation of the short was published in Walt Disney's Christmas Parade #2, printed by Dell Comics in 1950. This adaptation was titled "Christmas Fray" and "Such a Clatter" in reprints. [6]

Releases

Home media

The short was released on December 11, 2007 on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three: 1947-1950 . [7]

Additional releases include:

See also

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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. ↑ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 320. ISBN   9781476672939.
  3. ↑ Toy Tinkers at the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ Toy Tinkers at the Big Cartoon DataBase
  5. ↑ Toy Tinkers Archived 2010-09-01 at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts
  6. ↑ Such a Clatter at Inducks
  7. ↑ "The Chronological Donald Volume 3 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  8. ↑ 8mm Forum
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