Contrary Condor

Contrary Condor is a 1944 Donald Duck short film by Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Pictures.[1]

Contrary Condor
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJack King
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringClarence Nash
Music byOliver Wallace
Animation byPaul Allen
Jack King
Bill Justice
Don Towsley
Bob Carlson
Judge Whitaker
Marvin Woodward
John Reed
Layouts byErnie Nordli
Backgrounds byMerle Cox
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Release date
April 12, 1944
Running time
8 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Donald Duck tries to collect some eggs from a condor, but things go wrong.

Reception

Rick DeMott on Animation World Network writes: "Produced in the same year as Disney's second Latin American feature The Three Caballeros, this Andres-set comedy is actually more humorous than any section of Donald's work in the full-length film. While the narrator often drains character development from Caballeros sequences, in Condor, the contrast between the narrator's matter-of-fact information and the reality of Donald's shenanigans works in a humorous way reminiscent of the Goofy "How To" shorts. While some of the gags are repetitive and the pacing lags at times, the overall short has enough laughs to be successful. In our more PC age, the idea of Donald stealing eggs for fun is less than sympathetic, but the trouble that ensues gives the baby-snatching duck what he has coming to him I suppose."[2]

Cast

Releases

Contrary Condor was included in the 2005 DVD set The Chronological Donald: Volume 2. [4]

It was also featured as a bonus cartoon on the 2008 DVD, "The Caballeros Collection".

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gollark: "Your statement is really blunt and leaves no room for debate, we have to consider other possibilities *might* be correct."
gollark: "You once said 'I'm struggling with this differential calculus problem', what makes you qualified to say anything about maths?!?!?"
gollark: "You are an idiot. Al experts know that 1 + 1 = 3."
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References
  1. Maltin, Leonard (1984). The Disney Films (2nd ed.). Crown Publishers. p. 311. ISBN 0-517-55407-0. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  2. DeMott, Rick (April 28, 2018). "Contrary Condor (1944)". Animation World Network. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
  3. Hischak, Thomas S. (2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company. p. 263. ISBN 978-0786462711. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  4. "The Contrary Condor". Internet Animation Database. Retrieved 16 February 2020.


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