The Flying Squirrel (1954)

Director:

Jack Hannah

Writers:

Nick George (story) &
Roy Williams (story)

Release Date:

12 November 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Comedy | Animation | Short

Plot:

Donald is pushing his peanut cart through the park when a flying squirrel drops in. Donald gets him...

Plot Keywords:

Popcorn | Slingshot | Donald Duck | Kids And Family

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Clarence Nash

...

Donald Duck (voice)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Movie Connections:

Edited into Donald Duck's Cartoon Mania (1978)

A Routine Duck Tale

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.

Peanut vendor Donald tries to cheat THE FLYING SQUIRREL who helps him in a park - with predictable results.

This little film is unremarkable, but still enjoyable. The title character is undeniably cute, but would not return for any subsequent Disney cartoons. Clarence "Ducky" Nash supplies Donald's voice.

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, Bambi, Peter Pan and Mr. Toad. 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.