Season 1943

E1. Der Fuehrer's Face

Jan 1, 1943 · 7m

A German ""oom-pah"" band parades through town extolling the ""virtues"" of the Fuehrer with the title song. They awaken Donald Duck who has to go to work in a Nazi munitions factory, much to his regret. Luckily in the end, after a frantic workday trying to alternate between making bombs and saluting Hitler, he finds that it has all been a nightmare and that he is still living the the good old U.S.A. Der Fuehrer's Face won the 1942 Academy Award for Best Short Subjects: Cartoons.

E2. Education for Death

Jan 5, 1943 · 7m

A rather depressing story as Little Hans, a young German youth, is indoctrinated into the Nazi way of life, with tragic results.

E3. Donald's Tire Trouble

Jan 29, 1943 · 7m

A flat tire proves to be more than enough to try Donald's patience.

E4. Pluto and the Armadillo

Feb 19, 1943 · 7m

Mickey stays pretty much in the background as Pluto befriends an armadillo while on a South American trip. He at first fights with the animal, but not after thinking he's killed it.

E5. The Flying Jalopy

Mar 12, 1943 · 7m

Donald buys a used plane from Ben Buzzard who tries to sabotage it in order to collect on a forged insurance policy.

E6. Private Pluto

Apr 2, 1943 · 7m

Pluto is in the infantry guarding a pillbox from saboteurs.

E7. Fall Out, Fall In

Apr 23, 1943 · 7m

Donald experiences one of the joys of army life; the extended march with an overnight respite in an uncooperative pup tent.

E8. Victory Vehicles

Jul 30, 1943 · 7m

Goofy demonstrates different modes of transportation for wartime travel.

E9. Reason and Emotion

Aug 27, 1943 · 7m

A subtle propaganda film features the two halves of a man's (and woman's) mind; the rational half and the emotional half, as they each try to gain control over a person's actions.

E10. Figaro and Cleo

Oct 15, 1943 · 7m

Figaro tries various methods of trying to get Cleo, the fish, for his supper.

E11. The Old Army Game

Nov 5, 1943 · 10m

The old shell game gets a new face as Donald stays off-base past ""Taps"" and has to try to sneak back in with out alerting Pete.

E12. Home Defense

Nov 26, 1943 · 7m

Donald mans his listening post while his three nephews wait in readiness to attack the enemy. But chaos breaks out when the enemy turns out to be nothing more than a wandering bee.

E13. Chicken Little

Dec 17, 1943 · 7m

The traditional story of the little chicken who believes that the sky is falling ... but with a decidedly different ending.

E14. The Spirit of '43

Jan 7, 1943 · 6m

Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.

E15. Defense Against Invasion

Aug 11, 1943 · 7m

A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease.

E16. The Winged Scourge

Nov 5, 1943 · 10m

The Seven Dwarves learn about the menace of mosquito borne malaria and the necessary precautions to control it.

E17. El Gaucho Goofy

Feb 6, 1943 · 8m

A cowboy from the United States is transported to the Pampas where he is instructed in the ways of his counterpart, the gaucho. First a change of outfits, then he meets his horse. There are misadventures with a lasso and a saddle. Traditional activities include the asado, or barbecue, using bolas to hunt ostrich, and singing and dancing traditional music around the campfire. After the narrator completes the instructive summary, our cowboy returns home to the Midwest.