Private Pluto

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{{Infobox film

| name = Private Pluto

| image = Private_Pluto-shortfilm_poster.png

| caption = Short film poster

| director = Clyde Geronimi

| producer = Walt Disney

| story =

| starring = Pinto Colvig
Norma Swank
Dessie Flynn

| music = Oliver Wallace

| animator = Al Bertino
Les Clark
Phil Duncan
John Lounsbery
Charles A. Nichols

| layout_artist = Bruce Bushman
Charles Philippi

| background_artist =

| studio = Walt Disney Productions

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1943|4|2}}

| color_process = Technicolor

| runtime = 7 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Private Pluto is a 1943 propaganda comedy cartoon produced by Walt Disney Productions. In this cartoon, Pluto is in the army and he gets antagonized by two chipmunks, later known as Chip 'n' Dale, in their first official appearance.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/65/mode/2up |page=65}} While the chipmunks became regular antagonists of Donald Duck, they did continue to pester Pluto in Squatter's Rights (1946) and one last time in Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952).{{cite book |last1=Grant |first1=John |title=Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters |date=1998 |publisher=Hyperion |isbn=0-7868-6336-6 |edition=2nd |page=41}}

This story and characters previously appeared in the October 1942 issue of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. This was a 4-page text story with illustrations.Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, volume 3, number 1, pages 55-58