Winter Storage (1949)

Director:

Jack Hannah

Writers:

Bill Berg (story) &
Nick George (story)

Release Date:

3 June 1949 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Comedy | Family | Short

Plot:

Chip and Dale are worried about gathering enough acorns for the winter until park ranger Donald comes along with a bag full he's trying to plant.

Plot Keywords:

Acorn | Park Ranger | Duck | Chipmunk | Trap

Cast

Dessie Flynn	...	Dale (voice)
James MacDonald	...	Chip (voice)
Clarence Nash	...	Donald Duck (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Jack Hannah

Writing credits
Bill Berg		(story) &
Nick George		(story)

Produced by
Walt Disney	....	producer

Original Music by
Oliver Wallace

Animation Department
Jack Boyd	....	animator
Bob Carlson	....	animator
Yale Gracey	....	layout artist
Volus Jones	....	animator
Bill Justice	....	animator
Thelma Witmer	....	background artist

Production Companies

• Walt Disney Productions

Distributors

• RKO Radio Pictures (1949) (USA) (theatrical)
• Walt Disney Home Video (198?) (USA) (VHS) (Included in "Cartoon Classcs Vol. 1 Chip 'n' Dale with Donald Duck")

Also Known As:

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | USA:Approved (PCA #12505)

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Quotes:

[first lines]
Donald Duck:Let's see. Area to be seeded. Okay. It shall be done.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Ink & Paint Club: Chip 'N Dale (#1.5)" (1997)

A Duck Tale With Chipmunks

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.

Chip 'n' Dale decide to add to their WINTER STORAGE from tree planter Donald's big bag of acorns.

Here is another routine Duck versus Chipmunks film. The animation is unremarkable, but the antagonists are always fun to watch. Clarence "Ducky" Nash supplies Donald's unique voice; the Chipmunks are virtually unintelligible.

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 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 simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.