The Plastics Inventor is a Disney animated short from 1944, produced in Technicolor by RKO Radio Pictures, featuring Donald Duck.[1]

The Plastics Inventor
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJack King
Story byJack Hannah
Dick Shaw
Carl Barks (uncredited)
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringClarence Nash
Music byOliver Wallace
Animation byDon Towsley
Paul Allen
Bill Justice
Brad Case
Layouts byErnie Nordli
Backgrounds byMerle Cox
Color processTechnicolor
Production
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Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • September 1, 1944 (1944-09-01)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

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Donald Duck makes an airplane made of plastic, following instructions from a radio. The cartoon begins with Donald listening to the radio, and has a massive pile of junk, just enough to invent his plastic airplane. After Donald completes his plastic invention, the radio reminds Donald to make his helmet.

Then Donald decides to test pilot his plastic airplane in the sky, bringing the radio along with him. During the flight, the radio explains one fault; to not let the plastic airplane melt in water. Unfortunately, a rainstorm starts pouring and the plastic airplane begins to melt, with Donald attempting to repair it with extreme difficulty.

The airplane eventually melts away completely, forming into a parachute as Donald lands safely on a tulip patch. Donald, now angry at the radio, waters the radio with a watering can, melting it to liquid, ending the cartoon.

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Home media

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The short was released on December 6, 2005, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Two: 1942-1946.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ^ "The Chronological Donald Volume 2 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
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