Fire Chief (1940)

Director:

Jack King

Writers:

Carl Barks (writer)
Jack Hannah (writer)

Release Date:

13 December 1940 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Comedy | Short

Plot:

Donald and his nephews are the staff of a fire station. Huey, Dewey, and Louie, annoyed by Donald's snoring...

Plot Keywords:

Huey Dewey And Louie | Firefighting | Firemen | Donald Duck | Tricycle

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Clarence Nash

...

Donald Duck / Huey / Dewey / Louie (voice)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Mouse Factory: Man at Work (#1.8)" (1972)

Playing With Fire

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.

Donald Duck, the FIRE CHIEF of Hook & Ladder Company 13, manages to start a roaring conflagration in his own engine house.

Donald gets himself into trouble yet again - with able assistance from Huey, Dewey & Louie - in this well-animated little film. There is a good chance that viewers who have suffered a devastating fire will not find this cartoon very amusing. The story was written by the legendary Carl Barks; Clarence Nash provides the voices for the entire Duck clan.

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & 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 always pay off.