Chef Donald
{{short description|1941 Donald Duck cartoon}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Chef Donald
| image = Chef Donald poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Jack King
| producer = Walt Disney
| story = Carl Barks
| animator =
| starring = Clarence Nash
| music = Charles Wolcott
| color_process = Technicolor
| layout_artist =
| background_artist =
| studio = Walt Disney Productions
| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1941|12|05}}
| runtime = 7 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Chef Donald is a 1941 American Donald Duck short film directed by Jack King and produced by Walt Disney.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=13 February 2021 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312}}
Plot
Donald is listening to the radio while putting together a recipe book with rubber cement as glue, though he becomes enraged when he realizes one of the recipes is for roast duck. A radio cooking program hosted by Old Mother Mallard comes on and gives Donald the idea to mix up a batch of waffles, but he's distracted and accidentally uses the rubber cement instead of baking powder. While Donald sings "Pat-a-Cake, Pat-a-Cake, Baker’s Man", the batter proves to be unusually stiff. First, his spoon gets stuck and the batter acts like a rubber-band airplane, flying the bowl around the room.
Next, Donald falls with his head in the batter, he tries to get out but initially, he can't (with angry quacking and a lot of bubbles popping), and his tail in the waffle iron. Then he tries to chop it with an ax, and the ax flies up and splits the room in half.
Finally, he throws the bowl out the door, it sticks to the knob while the bowl gets stuck between two trees. The stretching causes a branch to knock on the door, tricking Donald into opening it and letting the batter back in. After several attempts, he has had enough and rushes to the radio studio where the cooking program is being broadcast, and takes his anger out on Old Mother Mallard, believing her to be the source of the trouble, still not knowing about the rubber cement accident.
As he approaches the radio station, the radio starts shaking and wobbling showing that Donald is violently attacking Old Mother Mallard as an act of "revenge".
Cast
- Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
- Sarah Selby - Old Mother Mallard
Home media
The short initially made its home media debut on VHS.{{cite web |title=Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Cartoon Collections VHS Set |url=https://www.imdb.com/list/ls074649150/ |website=IMDB |access-date=3 June 2025}} It was also released on DVD May 18th, 2004, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.{{cite web |title=The Chronological Donald Volume 1 DVD Review |url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/donald.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=13 February 2021}} The short has also been made available to stream on Disney+.{{cite web |title=Chef Donald |url=https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/chef-donald/2R5OYLx02mIl |website=Disney+ |access-date=3 June 2025}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0033460}}
{{Donald Duck in animation}}
{{Jack King}}
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Category:Donald Duck short films
Category:Films produced by Walt Disney
Category:1940s Disney animated short films
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:American animated short films
Category:RKO Pictures short films
Category:Films about food and drink
Category:American comedy short films
Category:RKO Pictures animated short films
Category:Films scored by Charles Wolcott
Category:English-language comedy short films
Category:1941 animated short films
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