Contrary Condor
Contrary Condor is a 1944 Donald Duck short film by Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Pictures.[1]
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Directed by | Jack King |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | Clarence Nash |
Music by | Oliver Wallace |
Animation by | Paul Allen Jack King Bill Justice Don Towsley Bob Carlson Judge Whitaker Marvin Woodward John Reed |
Layouts by | Ernie Nordli |
Backgrounds by | Merle Cox |
Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
Release date | April 12, 1944 |
Running time | 8 minutes |
Language | English |
Plot
Donald Duck tries to collect some eggs from a condor, but things go wrong.
Reception
Rick DeMott on Animation World Network writes: "Produced in the same year as Disney's second Latin American feature The Three Caballeros, this Andres-set comedy is actually more humorous than any section of Donald's work in the full-length film. While the narrator often drains character development from Caballeros sequences, in Condor, the contrast between the narrator's matter-of-fact information and the reality of Donald's shenanigans works in a humorous way reminiscent of the Goofy "How To" shorts. While some of the gags are repetitive and the pacing lags at times, the overall short has enough laughs to be successful. In our more PC age, the idea of Donald stealing eggs for fun is less than sympathetic, but the trouble that ensues gives the baby-snatching duck what he has coming to him I suppose."[2]
Cast
- Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
- Florence Gill as Condors
- Frank Graham as Narrator
Home media
Contrary Condor was included in the 2005 DVD set The Chronological Donald: Volume 2. [3]
It was also featured as a bonus cartoon on the 2008 DVD, "The Caballeros Collection".
References
- Maltin, Leonard (1984). The Disney Films (2nd ed.). Crown Publishers. p. 311. ISBN 0-517-55407-0. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- DeMott, Rick (April 28, 2018). "Contrary Condor (1944)". Animation World Network. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- "The Contrary Condor". Internet Animation Database. Retrieved 16 February 2020.