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A Good Time for a Dime (1941)

A Good Time for a Dime poster
Directed by
Dick Lundy
Genre
animation, comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Donald Duck visits a penny arcade. He watches a peep show of Daisy Duck dancing and then tries to operate a crane machine and a toy airplane ride.

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What happens

A Good Time for a Dime is a 1941 Disney short film in which Donald Duck watches a risqué Daisy perform the "Dance of the Seven Veils" in a Mutoscope at a penny arcade nickelodeon peep show. Donald also struggles with a crane drop machine and a miniature airplane ride. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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