Donald Gets Drafted

Donald Gets Drafted
Donald Gets Drafted
Donald Duck series
Directed by Jack King
Produced by Walt Disney
Story by Carl Barks
Jack Hannah
Harry Reeves
Voices by Billy Bletcher
John McLeish
Clarence Nash
Music by Paul J. Smith
Animation by Paul Allen, Jim Armstrong, Hal King, Ed Love, Ray Patin, Retta Scott, Judge Whitaker
Layouts by Bill Herwig
Studio Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s) May 1, 1942 (1942-05-01) (USA)
Color process Technicolor
Running time 8:55 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Preceded by Donald's Snow Fight
Followed by Donald's Garden

Donald Gets Drafted is a 1942 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon has Donald Duck being drafted into the U. S. Army during World War II and follows his introduction to military life. The film was directed by Jack King and introduced the song "The Army's Not the Army Anymore" by Carl Barks and Leigh Harline. The voice cast includes Clarence Nash as Donald, John McLeish as an officer, and Billy Bletcher as Pete who is Donald's drill sergeant.

Donald Gets Drafted was the first of a five-part series, within the larger Donald Duck series, which shared a continuity of Donald serving in the army during World War II. The cartoon also revealed for the first time Donald's middle name – Fauntleroy – seen on his "Order to Report for Induction" form from the film's title screen.[1][2][3]

Contents

Plot

Filled with enthusiasm, Donald Duck walks to his local draft board after receiving a draft notice. Along the sidewalk he passes several recruiting posters which romanticize army life. After arriving at the draft board, Donald greets an officer seated at a desk, presents his paper, and expresses his desire to join the Army Air Forces, adding excitedly "I came from a family of aviators!" The officer directs Donald to a room where he is to undergo a physical examination.

Inside the exam room, a team of white-coated doctors hurriedly pass Donald around, measuring him and testing his vital signs, vision, and hearing. Several gags during the scene emphasize the Army's willingness to accept as many recruits as possible; for example, one doctor holds a loud alarm clock directly against Donald's head and asks "Can you hear this?" At the end of the exam Donald is given his uniform and has his rear end stamped with a large "OK."[4]

The second half of the film takes place at Donald's Basic Training. While the unit is marched around the field by the drill sergeant (Pete), Donald is distracted by airplanes flying overhead, reminding him that he would rather be flying. Donald's lack of concentration leads to his marching out of step with the other soldiers. After messing up his facing movements, the bayonet on the end of his rifle causes even more problems. Pete dismisses the other soldiers to give Donald some "special training." But he soon admits "You're hopeless!"

Finally Donald's ineptitude leads to a series of accidental discharges from his rifle, several of which strike Pete who, in typical cartoon fashion, is unharmed. The final scene shows Donald skinning the peal of a potato to form the word "phooey." The camera pulls back and reveals Donald in a large room with many more potatoes to be pealed.

Background

The satirical humor in Donald Gets Drafted reflects an anti-military sentiment felt in particular by Carl Barks, one of the writers of the film. (He had written the lyrics to the theme song, scripted the film, and also drew the recruitment posters which Donald passes on his way to the draft board.) Barks himself was a pacifist who was against America's involvement in the war. He once said "When I saw how little we accomplished with World War I, I thought, why in the devil kill off another whole generation of young men to accomplish the same result?" In Donald Gets Drafted Barks ridicules military recruitment, in particular it's deceptive propaganda. The film is meant to draw a sharp distinction between the glamorous life presented in the posters outside the draft board compared to the reality Donald faces inside. Later, when Donald is at basic training, Barks pokes fun at military discipline, and even gives the sergeant a punishment of sorts by getting shot. This played well with audiences who were resentful of military strictness as America was mobilizing itself for war.[5]

Release history

See also

  • List of World War II short films

Notes

  1. ^ Donald Gets Drafted at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Donald Gets Drafted from The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts
  3. ^ Donald Gets Drafted at the Big Cartoon DataBase
  4. ^ This gag was taken directly from the short The Barnyard Battle (1929) where Mickey Mouse gets stamped in a similar fashion.
  5. ^ Andrae, Tom (2006). Carl Barks and the Disney Comic Book. Jackson, Mississippi: Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 56-57. ISBN 1578068584. 

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