Donald Gets Drafted
| Donald Gets Drafted | |
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| Donald Duck series | |
Pete scolding Donald
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| Directed by | Jack King |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Story by |
Carl Barks Jack Hannah Harry Reeves |
| Voices by |
Billy Bletcher John McLeish Clarence Nash |
| Music by | Paul J. Smith |
| Animation by |
Paul Allen Jim Armstrong Hal King Ed Love Ray Patin Retta Scott Judge Whitaker |
| Layouts by | Bill Herwig |
| Studio | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 8 minutes 55 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Donald's Snow Fight |
| Followed by | Donald's Garden |
Donald Gets Drafted is a 1942 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon has Donald Duck being drafted into the U. S. Army during World War II and follows his introduction to military life. The film was directed by Jack King and introduced the song "The Army's Not the Army Anymore" by Carl Barks and Leigh Harline. The voice cast includes Clarence Nash as Donald, John McLeish as an officer, and Billy Bletcher as Pete who is Donald's drill sergeant.
Donald Gets Drafted was the first of a six-part series, within the larger Donald Duck series, which shared a continuity of Donald serving in the army during World War II. The cartoon also revealed for the first time Donald's middle name – Fauntleroy – seen on his "Order to Report for Induction" form from the film's title screen.
Filled with enthusiasm, Donald reports to his local draft board after receiving a draft notice. Along the way, he passes several recruiting posters that romanticize military life. Especially intrigued by one for the Air Force, featuring attractive women and the promise of escorting them around, Donald decides that he "wants to fly". After arriving at the draft board, Donald expresses his desire to join the Army Air Forces, adding excitedly, "I came from a family of aviators!" The desk officer directs Donald to a room where he is to undergo a physical examination.
Inside the exam room, a team of white-coated doctors hurriedly pass Donald around, measuring him and testing his vital signs, vision, and hearing. Several gags during the scene emphasize the Army's willingness to accept as many recruits as possible, such as a color vision test that Donald passes even after mistakenly identifying a green card as being blue. At the end of the exam Donald is issued a uniform - vastly oversized, but shrunk to fit thanks to a bucket of water dumped over his head - and has his rear end stamped with a large "OK."
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