Underplayed Gems

Working for Peanuts (1953)

Working for Peanuts poster
Directed by
Jack Hannah
Genre
animation
Country
United States
Runtime
6 min
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 31 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Donald Duck tries to stop two chipmunks from stealing peanuts from an elephant. The chipmunks and Donald get into a back-and-forth battle over the peanuts.

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What happens

Working for Peanuts is a 1953 animated short produced by Walt Disney, featuring Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale. It is notable for being one of their first shorts filmed in 3D (the first being Adventures in Music: Melody, which was released several months before). The tagline of the film is "Walt Disney's Donald Duck & Chip 'N Dale in their first laugh riot in 3-Dimension". In 2006, it was remastered for Digital 3D purposes and re-released in 2007 along with the Disney Digital 3-D version of the Walt Disney Animation Studios film Meet the Robinsons. Working for Peanuts was also showcased a number of times at the Disney theme parks and was used as a teaser 3D cartoon at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, which showcased a 3D film, Magic Journeys, that was sponsored by Kodak. The title "Working for Peanuts", which is a common expression to indicate earning low wages, is used to allude to the development in the story related to the elephant's peanuts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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