Who's your friend?
This Disney short is most likely sitting in a film vault somewhere
collecting dust. It's a shame that many of the delightfully silly cartoons I use to watch as a child can only be found on the Disney Channel very late at night, if then. This one in particular reminds me of throwing applecores at my siblings under the influence of Chip and Dale's absurd "Applecore, Want Some More" confrontation with Donald Duck.. A Duck Tale With Apples
A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.
Donald\'s Delicious Apples is a thriving enterprise until Chip \'n\' Dale begin to eat a large percentage of the produce. DONALD APPLECORE is a fairly routine little Duck versus Chipmunks film - humorous, but all these characters have trudged this road before. The title refers to a rowdy old children\'s rhyme. Clarence "Ducky" Nash provides Donald with his unique 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, 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.. |
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