Window Cleaners
Window Cleaners | |
---|---|
RKO Radio Pictures | |
Release date |
|
Running time | 8 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | English, French |
Window Cleaners is an
Plot
Donald Duck is hoisted up on a roped platform while Pluto is pulling Donald up. Donald's hat and tail feathers get trimmed exposing his bare tail. Pluto easily gets distracted by a flea and lets go of the rope and Donald falls but the rope gets entangled by the stop sign and stops the platform, Donald lands on a statue horse. Later on Donald throws a bucket of water to wash the window and quickly runs out of water. Donald orders Pluto to wake up but he refuses and Donald gets angry at Pluto, yelling at him and finally throws a brush down the drainpipe. Pluto wakes up and blows the pulley to the wrong bucket full of nuts and bolts and Donald smashes a window and pulls down the window curtain in embarrassment.
Donald is still working when
Voice cast
- Donald Duck: Clarence Nash
- Pluto: Lee Millar
Production
Window Cleaners is the first cartoon to feature
Reception
The Film Daily called the short a "hilarious cartoon", saying: "Donald Duck, window cleaner, and his assistant, Pluto, will draw plenty of laughs from audiences in this cartoon."[2]
In The Disney Films, Leonard Maltin quotes film historian William K. Everson, who said: "Disney used height -- skyscrapers, mountains, etc. -- far more than other cartoon-makers, and with more concern for perspective and the convincing illusion of dizzy depths. Height gags in Warner Brothers cartoons and MGM cartoons were always just that -- rapid gags that paid off quickly in a laugh, and without a buildup. Disney, on the other hand, used height much as Harold Lloyd did, to counterpoint comedy with a genuine thrill."[3]
Home media
The short was released on May 18, 2004 on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.[4]
Additional releases include:
- Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Edition II: Donald's Bee Pictures
- Walt Disney's Funny Factory with Donald Volume 2
References
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Reviews of Short Subjects". The Film Daily. 78 (83): 7. October 25, 1940. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
- ISBN 0-517-55407-0. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ "The Chronological Donald Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
External links
- Window Cleaners at IMDb