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Donald's Ostrich (1937)

Donald's Ostrich poster
Directed by
Jack King
Genre
animation, comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
9 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 47 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An ostrich swallows a variety of objects including a radio. Donald Duck tries to get the ostrich to give them back.

whimsicalplayfulenergeticchaoticlightheartedslapstickfast-paced

What happens

Donald's Ostrich is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on December 10, 1937, by RKO Radio Pictures. It was the first film in the Donald Duck series of short films, although billed on the poster at the time as a Mickey Mouse cartoon. It was the first of the series to be released by RKO. Donald's Ostrich was directed by Jack King and features the voices of Clarence Nash as Donald Duck, Pinto Colvig as Hortense the Ostrich, and Elvia Allman and Billy Bletcher as radio voices. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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