Inferior Decorator
{{short description|1948 Donald Duck cartoon}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Inferior Decorator
| image = Donald Duck's Inferior Decorator.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Jack Hannah
| producer = Walt Disney
| story = Lee Morehouse
Bob Moore
| starring = Clarence Nash
| music = Oliver Wallace
| animator = Bill Justice
Volus Jones
Ray Patin
Dan Macmanus
| layout_artist = Yale Gracey
| background_artist = Thelma Witmer
| studio = Walt Disney Productions
| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1948|08|27}}
| color_process = Technicolor
| runtime = 6 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Inferior Decorator is a 1948 animated Donald Duck short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/74/mode/2up |pages=74–76}}
Plot
Spike the Bee is pollinating flowers outside Donald Duck's house in his garden. He hears Donald singing, and mistakes the wallpaper for flowers. Donald teases Spike by getting him stuck in glue before freeing him, causing the bee to hit the light, Donald pushes him outside and shuts the window. Spike gets revenge; he removes the key from the lock and decides to sting Donald's rear end, but misses and gets stuck on the wallpaper glue. Donald tugs with the wallpaper and Spike frees himself from the glue. But this causes the wallpaper to stick to the ceiling, with Donald's hands glued to the wallpaper.
Spike sees this opportunity to sting Donald's rear end and dives right at him, but Donald evades the bee's stinger and thwarts him with a bottle cork; this fails, as Spike gets the cork off his stinger. Spike again dives at Donald and misses him. When he sees Donald hiding in the wallpaper on the ceiling, Spike cuts open the wallpaper with his stinger and exposes Donald's rear end. Spike then goes outside and whistles to the bees in the beehive, and they gather together. Spike then invites them inside the keyhole, and lets them in the house, one at a time, to sting Donald's rear end.
Voice cast
- Donald Duck: Clarence Nash
Home media
The short was released on December 11, 2007, on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three: 1947-1950.{{cite web |title=The Chronological Donald Volume 3 DVD Review |url=https://www.dvdizzy.com/donaldvol3.html |website=DVD Dizzy |access-date=13 February 2021}} It was released to Disney+ on October 6, 2023.{{cite web|url=https://d23.com/disney-to-debut-28-restored-classic-walt-disney-animation-studios-shorts/|title=Disney+ to Debut 28 Restored Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts|author=The D23 Team|work=D23|date=June 19, 2023|accessdate=June 19, 2023}}
Additional releases include:
- Classic Cartoon Favorites, Volume Two - Starring Donald (DVD)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0040471}}
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Category:Donald Duck short films
Category:1940s Disney animated short films
Category:1940s English-language films
Category:Films scored by Oliver Wallace
Category:Films directed by Jack Hannah
Category:Films produced by Walt Disney
Category:RKO Pictures short films
Category:RKO Pictures animated short films
Category:Animated films about bees
Category:English-language short films
Category:1948 animated short films
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