| Self Control | |
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 Self Control title card | |
| Directed by | Jack King |
| Story by | Carl Barks[1] |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Clarence Nash Florence Gill |
| Music by | Oliver Wallace |
| Animation by | Jack Hannah Paul Allen Ed Aardal Charles Couch[2] |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 8:51 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Self Control is ananimatedshort film in theDonald Duck series, produced inTechnicolor byWalt Disney Productions and released to theaters on February 11, 1938, byRKO Radio Pictures.[3] The film follows Donald trying to learn to control his temper by following the advice of a radio program.
It was directed byJack King and features the voice ofClarence Nash as Donald Duck andFlorence Gill as the clucking voice of a chicken. The voice of Uncle Smiley was uncredited.[4]
Donald Duck is enjoying a leisurely day in his hammock sipping lemonade and listening to his radio. Soon Uncle Smiley's radio program comes on. Smiley is described as a "musical philosopher" and uses songs to maintain a positive attitude. Donald insists that he has never lost his temper.
However Donald's temper is soon put to the test first by a fly that lands on his foot, followed by a caterpillar which crawls down the underside of his hammock and tickles him. A chicken comes along and pecks Donald's rear end while trying to grab the caterpillar. Finally Donald fights with a woodpecker for bathing in his bowl of lemonade, who retaliates by causing a huge amount of apples to fall onto the hammock tearing it up before pecking Donald's hat into a riddled rag.
At the end of the film Donald loses his temper and smashes the radio with a shotgun.
The short was released on May 18, 2004, onWalt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.[5]
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