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Self Control (1938)

Self Control poster
Directed by
Jack King
Genre
animation, comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
9 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Donald Duck listens to a radio program about controlling your temper. He tries hard to stay calm but keeps losing his cool with a chicken and other things around his house.

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What happens

Self Control is an animated short film in the Donald Duck series, produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 11, 1938, by RKO Radio Pictures. The film follows Donald trying to learn to control his temper by following the advice of a radio program. It was directed by Jack King and features the voice of Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and Florence Gill as the clucking voice of a chicken. The voice of Uncle Smiley was uncredited. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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