A blog reviewing all the available American animated cartoons of 1939, in approximately release order (or reverse order from the perspective of someone reading the blog after it is done).
Sunday, August 8, 2010
105 Donald's Penguin
Title: Donald's Penguin
Studio: Disney
Date: 8/11/39
Credits: None listed on print
Series: Donald Duck
Running time (of viewed version): 7:46 (ignoring Leonard)
Synopsis: Donald gets some foreign action sent his way in the form of a troubled penguin.
Comments: Leonard Maltin is forced to say guns are bad. Nice stencil title; the N would be unidentifiable without the context of other letters around it; I like it. I'm not sure if the ice around the penguin is meant to seem like Snow White's glass coffin. When you send a penguin to a duck, are you engaged in the flesh trade? With such angry girlish eyes, it's like some sort of mail order bride situation (and her name is Tootsie; one of the fairies in the last entry, Jitterbug Knights, was also named Toots). This gives the spanking scene a different context. Multiple fish shadow shots. Donald gets his fingers caught in a trap, and then they throb. Shoot that penguin execution style with a shotgun, Donald. Donald sniffs her, wolf whistles and says "It smells like a bird".
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