Dumb Bell of the Yukon

Dumb Bell of the Yukon was a Disney animated short starring Donald Duck and Daisy Duck. It was drawn in 1946. The Director was Jack King.^[1] It is 6:34 long.

Cast

Daisy Duck (Ruth Paterson) Donald Duck (Clarence Nash)

Plot

It starts off with Donald reading a letter from Daisy telling him to make her some fur coats. So, Donald goes off to hunt bears. Donald wanders into a bear cave and sees a momma bear and a baby bear. He pictures the baby bear being a fur coat. He uses "essence of honey" to capture the baby bear. The momma bear mistakes Donald for the baby bear and starts licking and hugging him. Donald takes the baby bear home and puts it in a lot of stances. Donald then thinks of the ways he could kill the bear. Donald tries to hang the bear with no success. The momma bear realizes that her baby is not there and follows Donald's footprints to his house. Donald disguises himself as the baby bear. The momma bear accidentally squeezes Donald too tightly and his costume rips off. He puts it back on and tricks the bear, while the baby bear is trying to ruin Donald's plans. The baby bear kicks Donald Duck so hard that his costume comes off and he spills honey on himself. Since Donald spills Honey on himself the momma bear and the cub start licking his head.

Censorship

When this cartoon aired on Toon Disney, the scene where Donald tries to hang the cub but gets stuck on the noose in the process was cut with a fake lap dissolve from Donald saying "Aw, Phooey!" to the scene with the mother bear sleeping (before waking up from a falling rock that hurts his foot) (though Donald's use of the word "Mammy" wasn't edited).

References

1. ^ Richard Holliss and Brian Sibley (1988). The Disney Studio story. Octopus. pp. 154. ISBN 0706430409. 

Further reading

• Dave Smith (1996). "Dumb Bell of the Yukon". Disney A to Z: the official encyclopedia. Hyperion. ISBN 0786881496. 

External links

• Dumb Bell of the Yukon at the Internet Movie Database