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Truant Officer Donald (1941)

Truant Officer Donald poster
Directed by
Jack King
Genre
comedy film, animated film, family film
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 46 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An animated short about Donald Duck as a truant officer who is determined to get his three mischievous nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, to attend school. The nephews use various tricks to avoid going to school.

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What happens

Truant Officer Donald is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on August 1, 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1942 but lost to another Disney cartoon, Lend a Paw. The story features Donald Duck working as a truant officer and making sure that his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie go to school. The film was directed by Jack King while Clarence Nash provided the voices of Donald and the nephews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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