Don Donald (1937)

Release Date:

9 January 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Family | Romance

Plot:

Donald is courting Daisy (called Donna, here in her first appearance) Duck in Mexico. He arrives on a burro...

Plot Keywords:

Mud Puddle | Rumble Seat | Duck | Mexico | Unicycle

Cast

  (Cast)

Clarence Nash

...

Donald Duck / Donna Duck (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Germany:o.Al. | Argentina:Atp | USA:Approved

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

Not only is this the first official Donald Duck cartoon, it also marks the first appearance of his girlfriend. Here, however, she is called Donna, and her voice is the same as Donald's, just sped up slightly.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Many Faces of Donald Duck (2007) (V)

When Donald Met Daisy

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.

In Old Mexico, DON DONALD learns what it takes to impress a temperamental señorita.

Daisy Duck made her movie debut in this very enjoyable little film, which features good animation and funny performances from both Ducks. Strangely, it would be another three years before Daisy returned for her second appearance, in MR DUCK STEPS OUT (1940). At this point in her career, Daisy received her unique vocalization from the same source as Donald - talented voice artist Clarence Nash.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work will always pay off.