Truant Officer Donald (1941)

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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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