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Modern Inventions (1937)

Modern Inventions poster
Directed by
Jack King
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
9 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 64 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Donald Duck visits a museum full of wacky robot inventions. He gets into a series of comedic troubles with machines like a robot butler and a robot barber.

humorouslightheartedwhimsicalplayfulfast-pacedsillychaotic

What happens

Modern Inventions is a 1937 American comic science fiction animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. It is also the final Disney short to be released by United Artists. In the cartoon, Donald Duck tours the fictional Museum of Modern Marvels. Jack King directed it in his first directing role at Disney, and Oliver Wallace composed the original music. The voice cast includes Clarence Nash as Donald, Billy Bletcher as the Robot Butler, Adriana Caselotti as the Robot Baby Carriage, and Don Brodie as the Robot Barber. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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