Self Control (film)

{{short description|1938 Donald Duck cartoon}}

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{{Infobox film

|name = Self Control

|image = Self Control.png

|caption = Self Control title card

|director = Jack King

|producer = Walt Disney

|story = Carl Barks{{cite book |last1=Kaufman |first1=J.B. |last2=Gerstein |first2=David |title=Walt Disney's Donald Duck: The Ultimate History |date=2024 |publisher=Taschen |isbn=978-3-8365-5280-6| page=112}}

|starring = Clarence Nash
Florence Gill

|music = Oliver Wallace

|animator = Jack Hannah
Paul Allen
Ed Aardal
Charles Couch[https://archive.today/20120904040918/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/3862-Self_Control.html Self Control] at the Big Cartoon DataBase

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|studio = Walt Disney Productions

|distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

|released = {{Film date|1938|02|11}}

|color_process = Technicolor

|runtime = 8:51

|country = United States

|language = English

}}

Self Control is an animated short film in the Donald Duck series, produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 11, 1938, 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 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312 |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/74 74]-76}} The film follows Donald trying to learn to control his temper by following the advice of a radio program.

It was directed by Jack King and features the voice of Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and Florence Gill as the clucking voice of a chicken. The voice of Uncle Smiley was uncredited.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030729/ Self Control] at the Internet Movie Database