Walt Disney Treasures - The Chronological Donald, Volume Two (1942 - 1946)
by Dick Lundy
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Actor: Clarence NashDirector: Dick Lundy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 230 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
DVD Reviews of Walt Disney Treasures - The Chronological Donald, Volume Two (1942 - 1946)
DVD Review: Good ole' Days
Summary: 5 Stars
This is great and you can see all the cartoons you would watch growing up and it is just fun to see the real Disney.DVD Review: I love Donald Duck
Summary: 5 Stars
I really love Donald Duck and I have waited during many years to have the opportunity to buy an only Donald Duck DVD. If you like the style of Walt Disney cartoons, it is really a good one. For me, these are also souvenirs of my youth. It is really a good DVD and the bonus with some interviews are very well done. It is a product of quality. You can buy the volumes #1, #2 and #3; they are all best buys. Micheline Anne MontreuilDVD Review: Wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars
Watching these classic cartoons reminds you why Disney is where it is today. They are funny, they are entertaining and they show why cartoons made before the era of political correctness and educational everything will always be better than the less than fun stuff made today. If you want to laugh out loud buy this collection!DVD Review: Fun
Summary: 4 Stars
Clean fun. The menu is hard to use and the dvds are not the best quality. We had to send back for a replacement.
DVD Review: Donald's War Years Career
Summary: 4 Stars
This two disc set in the Disney Treasures series picks up at the end of the first Donald themed release and follows Donald pretty much through World War II. Over the course of the two discs, we get 32 shorts from 1942 to 1946.
Only a hand full of them are directly related to the war effort. Those are collected in a special part of disc one. These eight shorts were part of the earlier DISNEY AT WAR set, but it's nice to have them here, too. Most of them find Donald enlisting in the army and his misadventures with army life. There are some funny ones, like "Fall Out - Fall In," which finds Donald trying to set up a tent and survive an overnight hike and "Vanishing Private," where Donald accidentally gets covered with invisible paint. "Der Fuehrer's Face" is included as well. It's very much a propaganda cartoon and still a little frightening.
Even the war finds its way into the rest of the shorts. For example, Donald complains about the construction of tires in "Donald's Tire Trouble." And it provides the inspiration for "The Plastics Inventor," my favorite from the set. In it, Donald builds an airplane out of plastic but discovers one drawback, it starts to melt in the rain.
Another highlight is "Donald's Crime" in which Donald wrestles with his conscience after taking his nephew's money for a date with Daisy.
As usual, Donald's temper takes over, although I rarely find I can blame him. Still, occasionally I find myself siding against him, like when he uses the lighthouse light to annoy a pelican in "Lighthouse Keeping."
Once again, this set is great. The picture is clear and the sound good. The first disc includes an episode of the "Disneyland" TV show that focused on Donald. The second disc contains an interview with Donald's current voice, Tony Anselmo, and a tribute to Carl Barks, the man who created the Donald comic books.
While Donald still isn't my favorite of the Disney characters, I laughed my way through this set. It should appeal to animation and history buffs as well as kids of all ages.
Description of Walt Disney Treasures - The Chronological Donald, Volume Two (1942 - 1946)
The adventures of the world's favorite fiery-tempered duck continue as we follow his solo-starring efforts from 1942 through 1946. This period was filled with an abundance of comic exploits as Donald shows his huge audience what he's made of, short fuse and all. Among Donald's featured escapades is the Academy Award(R)-nominated Best Short, "Donald's Crime," from 1945. Also showcased is an interview with the current-day voice of Donald Duck, Tony Anselmo, and a profile of the legendary comic book artist Carl Barks -- including a look at the not-often-seen work he did in Disney's animation department.As the number of cartoons in The Chronological Donald series indicates, Donald Duck was Walt Disney's biggest star during the '40s and '50s. Between 1941 and 1965, the studio made 106 Donald shorts, but only 49 Goofys and 14 Mickeys. With his flashpan temper, Donald was well suited to the more aggressive humor of wartime America. Donald's plump derri?re got kicked, stung, swatted, or stuck in things with predictably pyrotechnic results. No character had to deal with less cooperative tools, and no character threw bigger tantrums when his equipment failed to work properly.
The Disney shorts of this era offer beautiful animation, lavish special effects, and elegantly painted backgrounds. But by 1942, Walt Disney's interests had shifted away from short films to features and war work. The artists at Warner Bros. and MGM were pushing the boundaries to make cartoons that were faster, brasher, and funnier. Compared to the work of Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, and Friz Freleng, the wartime Donald shorts feel tame. The mystery spoof "Duck Pimples" is one of the nuttiest shorts the Disney Studio ever released, but it can't match the take-no-prisoners insanity of Avery's "Red" cartoons, its obvious model.
Any serious Disneyphile or student of animation will want The Chronological Donald, as it's been impossible to see many of the cartoons for decades. The extras include "A Day in the Life of Donald Duck," a 1956 episode of "Disneyland" that features Donald arguing with Clarence Nash, the actor who provided his voice; and a conversation between host Leonard Maltin and Tony Anselmo, Donald's current voice. (Unrated, suitable for all ages: cartoon violence, tobacco use, ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon
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