Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)

Directed by

Joshua Meador, Hamilton Luske, Les Clark, Wolfgang Reitherman

Genre

fantasy film

Country

United States

Runtime

27 min

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 122 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Donald Duck is taken on a journey through a fantastical world of mathematics. He learns how math appears in nature, music, and games. The film shows that math is all around us and can be fun.

educationalwhimsicallightheartedcuriousplayfulanimatednostalgicinstructive

What happens

Donald in Mathmagic Land is an American live-action animated featurette produced by Walt Disney Productions and featuring Donald Duck. The short was directed by Hamilton Luske (with Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark, and Joshua Meador as sequence directors) and was released on June 26, 1959. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 32nd Academy Awards, and became a widely viewed educational film in American schools of the 1960s and beyond. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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