Fire Chief (film)

Fire Chief is a 1940 Disney cartoon starring Donald Duck and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie.[1]

Fire Chief
Directed byJack King
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringClarence Nash
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Release date
December 13, 1940 (USA)
Running time
7 min (one reel)
LanguageEnglish

Synopsis

The cartoon shows Donald as a firefighter along with his nephews. When the nephews get tired of Donald's snoring, they sound the fire alarm to wake him up, but Donald instead thinks that there is a fire so he rushes to get on the fire truck. He then comes back up to blow the horn to wake them up. Donald and his nephews lead to fire safety like soldiers but Donald falls backwards then Huey hit two of the nephews falling on Donald which sounds like the NBC Chimes.

Later, Huey puts on coal in the fire truck but Donald puts on even more, causing the house to catch fire. They then try to put out the fire but Donald instead unknowingly puts the hose on the car's gasoline tank. One of the nephews notices and tries to warn him, but Donald pays no heed. As a result, he causes the fire house and the fire truck to burn down completely and, to add insult to injury, Donald's hat burns down as well, resulting in its burnt frames becoming Donald's 'hair'. The short ends with a defeated and humiliated Donald remarking "You can't win. You just can't win."

Reception

The Film Daily called the short "fairly funny".[2]

Voice cast
gollark: That isn't actually very good.
gollark: What?
gollark: I mostly just assume that things will go horribly unless someone comes up with a convenient workaround requiring no social change, such as geoengineering or something.
gollark: I mean, yes, it would be *bad* if we ignored the problem and flew pollutingly, but that doesn't mean people won't do it anyway.
gollark: It totally can. Climate change is an abstract and fairly faraway issue for people. "I can't conveniently fly like I used to" is really obvious and immediate.

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. "Reviews of Short Subjects". The Film Daily. 78 (114): 7. December 11, 1940. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  3. Hischak, Thomas S. (2011). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0786462711.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.