| The Whalers | |
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 Title card | |
| Directed by | Dick Huemer |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Clarence Nash Pinto Colvig |
| Music by | Albert Hay Malotte |
| Animation by | Art Babbitt Preston Blair Al Eugster Eric Larson Robert Leffingwell Ed Love Joshua Meador Lee Morehouse Frank Oreb Art Palmer Don Patterson Milt Schaffer Louie Schmitt Marvin Woodward |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 8 min (one reel) |
| Language | English |
The Whalers is acartoon produced byWalt Disney Productions, released by RKO Radio Pictures on August 19, 1938, and featuringMickey Mouse,Donald Duck andGoofy.
The short was directed byDick Huemer. It featured the voices ofClarence 'Ducky' Nash as Donald Duck andPinto Colvig as Goofy. Mickey does not speak in this short. It was animated by Ed Love, Marvin Woodward, Art Babbitt, Frank Oreb, Robert Leffingwell, Louie Schmitt, Lee Morehouse, Al Eugster, Josh Meador, Eric Larson, Preston Blair and Milt Schaffer. The music was provided byAlbert Hay Malotte, uncredited in the film.[2] It was the 101st short in theMickey Mouse film series to be released, and the third for that year.[3]
Mickey Mouse,Donald Duck andGoofy are on a whaling boat in search of whales. Donald tries to eat a sandwich for lunch, butseagulls bother and harass him to get the sandwich and end up eating most of it. While Donald is preoccupied with fighting off the gulls, apelican eats the remainder of the sandwich. Meanwhile, Mickey tries to pitch a bucket of water off the ship, but it keeps coming back to him, to his annoyance. Donald and Goofy spot a sleeping whale, but Goofy's efforts to shoot a harpoon keep failing because he doesn't have all the tools needed (at one point, he sets his own bottom on fire). He eventually succeeds in launching the anchor in place of the harpoon, but his foot gets caught in the attached line and when the anchor hits an iceberg he ends up hanging from the line above the whale's head.
Donald rushes to Goofy's rescue, but isn't fast enough and Goofy falls off the line, through the whale'sblowhole, and ends up in the whale's mouth. Lighting a match so he can see better, Goofy inadvertently wakes the whale up and it starts coughing. A wave comes in through the whale's open mouth and washes Goofy around. He gets blown out of the whale's blowhole and falls back down, his head getting stuck in the blowhole. Meanwhile, Donald falls into the water and is chased by the angry whale back to the ship, where, after Donald is nearly eaten, the whale rams and destroys the ship. Mickey, Donald and Goofy fly through the air and land on a small raft made of the ship's debris. Goofy ends up with a fish in his hands, and, believing it is the whale, says, "Gosh, he must have shrunk!"
Motion Picture Herald printed a letter from an exhibitor in their "What the Picture Did For Me" section, saying: "What a letdown. Disney must have been working onFerdinand and made this during dinner hour. Not so hot". Another wrote: "A dandy. Very funny".[4]
The short was released on December 4, 2001, onWalt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color.[5]
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