A Good Time for a Dime

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A Good Time for a Dime
Theatrical release poster
Directed byDick Lundy
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringClarence Nash
Music byLeigh Harline
Animation byTed Bonnicksen
Bob Carlson
Walt Clinton
John Elliotte
Jack Gayek
Art Fitzpatrick
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • May 9, 1941 (1941-05-09)
Running time
7:37
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

A Good Time for a Dime is a 1941 Disney short film in which

nickelodeon peep show.[1]
Donald also struggles with a crane drop machine and a miniature airplane ride.

Plot

Inside a

crane machine
to win a camera, but he finishes empty handed when he sneezes all the prizes back in the crane machine. Finally, Donald pays a nickel to use a coin-operated airplane ride, but his ride is very short. Donald angrily grabs the throttle and uses it to start up the propeller blades to get himself a free ride. However, as he had removed the control stick, the plane goes out of control. Donald gets thrown out of the ride and stays afloat by flapping his arms, briefly behaving like a real world duck in flight. Donald risks getting caught in the propeller, but the ride bucks and Donald is reinserted into the cockpit. The ride then returns safely to the ground, although this has made Donald quite airsick. With that, Donald leaves the arcade, stumbling and groaning to himself.

Voice cast

Reception

Concerning the "somewhat orientalized Daisy", the Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters says that her appearance is "a brief and anonymous one; it is also her sexiest."[2] However, it has been criticized as "unproblematically [representing] all of the Western stereotypes about the harem. A Good Time for a Dime manufactures the harem as a setting separate from any social phenomena and full of obliging women happily catering to male sexual fantasies."[3]

The Film Daily called the short a "dandy cartoon", saying that "Donald Duck is back with a plenitude of hearty laughs for audiences in this short."[4]

Motion Picture Herald said that A Good Time for a Dime is "an excellent Donald Duck color cartoon that pleased everyone",[5] and "one of Disney's funniest".[6]

Home media

The short was released on May 18, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.[7]

References

  1. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7
    . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. ISBN 978-0786863365
    .
  3. ISBN 9780813519494
    . Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Reviews of Short Subjects". The Film Daily. 79 (95): 9. May 15, 1941. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Short Features". Motion Picture Herald. 143 (11): 50. June 14, 1941.
  6. ^ "Short Features". Motion Picture Herald. 143 (10): 61. June 7, 1941.
  7. ^ "The Chronological Donald Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

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