Vintage 1939 WALT DISNEY Model Sheet DONALD DUCK Shirley Temple AUTOGRAPH HOUND

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Vintage 1939 WALT DISNEY Model Sheet DONALD DUCK Shirley Temple AUTOGRAPH HOUND:
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The Autograph Hound Walt Disney/RKO-Radio Pictures, 1939 original printedstudiomodel sheet 10 x 13 inchesregular weight art papervarious studio stamps Very Fine

The Autograph Houndis a 1939 AmericanDonald Duckcartoon.

It features Donald Duck as anautographhunter inHollywood. Many celebrities from the 1930s are featured.

This is the first cartoon where Donald Duck is featured in his blue sailor hat.

Donald Duck tries to enter a Hollywood studio so he can search for celebrities willing to sign their autograph. A security guard at the gate prevents him from entering the building. Donald manages to sneak inside by climbing on thelimousinewithGreta Garboso that it seems he\'s riding along with her. The police officer discovers he\'s been fooled and chases Donald, who enters a room with the name \"Mickey Rooney\" on it. Inside,Mickey Rooneyis dressing up in front of the mirror, when Donald asks him for his autograph. Rooney writes his name in Donald\'s book and makes it disappear and reappear with a magic trick.

Donald, who is not amused, tries to impress Rooney by doing a similar trick with an egg. The egg is however obviously hidden under Donald\'s hat and Rooney who is aware of this, crushes it, laughing loudly. Donald gets extremely angry and starts waving his fists, while Rooney manages to put a violin in Donald\'s hands and starts dancing an Irish jig Donald is playing. When Donald discovers he has been tricked for the third time he throws the violin at Rooney. Rooney ducks and the instrument lands in the face of the security guard.

Alarmed, Donald runs away and hides under a bell-jar carried by actorHenry Armetta. When the guard discovers Donald\'s hiding place the duck runs to another film set full with ice. There he meetsSonja Henieand asks her for an autograph. Henie signs her name by skating it in the ice, so that Donald has to carry it with him. While walking in a desert setting Donald discovers the ice has melted. He notices a tent with the silhouettes of three belly dancing Arabic women, who turn out to be theRitz Brothers. Excited, he asks them for their autographs, but behaving like screwballs they jump on Donald and sign their group name on his buttocks. An enraged Donald throws a paint can at their heads, but it hits the face of the guard instead.

Again Donald has to flee and he runs to a castle with the signThe Road To Mandalay, which turns out to be just amodel. After bumping his head into it and realizing his mistake he runs into another direction. On a pair of stairs he bumps intoShirley Temple. She, too, recognizes him and asks for an autograph. They both sit down to sign each other their autographs and Donald, excited he has his first real autograph, jumps in the air with joy. Then suddenly the guard finally grabs him and intends to beat him with his night club. Shirley tells him to leave Donald alone and he drops him on the floor in surprise. \"Donald Duck? Did you say\"Donald Duck\"?\".

Other Hollywood actors hear his comment and enthusiastically rush to Donald to ask him to sign his autograph for them. (In chronological order:Greta Garbo,Clark Gable,The Andrews Sisters,Charlie McCarthy,Stepin Fetchit,Roland Young,the Lone Rangerriding his horse Silver,Joe E. Brown,Martha Raye,Hugh Herbert,Irvin S. Cobb,Edward Arnold,Katharine Hepburn,Eddie Cantor,Slim Summerville,Lionel Barrymore,Bette Davis,Groucho Marx,Harpo Marx,Mischa Auer,Joan CrawfordandCharles Boyer). When the police officer asks Donald to sign his autograph book and offers him his pen, Donald squirts ink in the policeman\'s face. While the ink drips from the officer\'s face and writes Donald\'s name on his chest, Donald laughs hysterically.

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Donald Duckis acartooncharacter created in 1934, atWalt Disney Studio.

Donald is ananthropomorphicwhite duckwith a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears asailor shirt and capwith a black or redbow tie. Donald is most famous for hissemi-intelligible speechand his mischievous and temperamental personality. Along with his friendMickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included inTV Guide\'s list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002.He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character,and is the most published comic book character in the world outside of the superhero genre.

Donald Duck rose to fame with his comedic roles inanimated cartoons. Donald\'s first appearance was in 1934 inThe Wise Little Hen, but it was his second appearance inOrphan\'s Benefitwhich introduced him as a temperamental comic foil to Mickey Mouse. Throughout the next two decades Donald appeared in over 150 theatrical films, several of which were recognized at theAcademy Awards. In the 1930s, he typically appeared as part of a comic trio with Mickey andGoofy, and was given his own film series in 1937 starting withDon Donald. These films introduced Donald\'s love interestDaisy Duckand often included his three nephewsHuey, Dewey, and Louie. After the 1956 filmChips Ahoy, Donald appeared primarily in educational films before eventually returning to theatrical animation inMickey\'s Christmas Carol(1983). His most recent appearance in a theatrical film was 1999\'sFantasia 2000. Donald has also appeared in direct-to-video features such asMickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers(2004), television series such asMickey Mouse Clubhouse(2006–2013), and video games such asQuackShot(1991).

Beyond animation Donald is primarily known for hisappearances in comics. Donald was most famously drawn byAl Taliaferro,Carl Barks, andDon Rosa. Barks in particular is credited for greatly expanding the \"Donald Duck universe\", the world in which Donald lives, and creating many additional characters such as Donald\'s rich uncleScrooge McDuck. Donald has been a very popular character in Europe, particularly inNordic countrieswhere his weekly magazineDonald Duck & Cowas the most popular comics publication from the 1950s to 2009.

Donald Duck first appeared in the1934cartoonThe Wise Little Henwhich was part of theSilly Symphoniesseries of theatrical cartoon shorts. The film\'s release date of June 9 is officially recognized by the Walt Disney Company as Donald\'s birthdaydespite a couple in-universe contradictions.Donald\'s appearance in the cartoon, as created byanimatorDick Lundy, is similar to his modern look— the feather and beak colors are the same, as is the blue sailor shirt and hat— but his features are more elongated, his body plumper, and his feet smaller. Donald\'s personality is not developed either; in the short, he only fills the role of the unhelpful friend from the original story.

Burt Gillettbrought Donald back in hisMickey Mousecartoon,Orphan\'s Benefit, released August 11, 1934. Donald is one of a number of characters who are giving performances in a benefit for Mickey\'s Orphans. Donald\'s act is to recite the poemsMary Had a Little LambandLittle Boy Blue, but every time he tries, the mischievous orphans heckle him, leading the duck to fly into a squawking fit of anger. This explosive personality would remain with Donald for decades to come.

Donald continued to be a hit with audiences. The character began appearing regularly in most Mickey Mouse cartoons. Cartoons from this period, such as the 1935 cartoonThe Band Concert— in which Donald repeatedly disrupts the Mickey Mouse Orchestra\'s rendition ofThe William Tell Overtureby playingTurkey in the Straw— are regularly hailed by critics as exemplary films and classics of animation. AnimatorBen Sharpsteenalso minted the classicMickey, Donald, and Goofycomedy in 1935, with the cartoonMickey\'s Service Station.

In 1936, Donald was redesigned to be a bit fuller, rounder, and cuter, the first to feature this design was the cartoonMoving Day. He also began starring in solo cartoons, the first of which was the January 9, 1937 Ben Sharpsteen cartoon,Don Donald. This short also introduced a love interest of Donald\'s,Donna Duck, who evolved intoDaisy Duck.Donald\'s nephews,Huey, Dewey and Louie, would make their first animated appearance a year later in the April 15, 1938 film,Donald\'s Nephews, directed byJack King(they had been earlier introduced in the Donald Duckcomic stripbyAl Taliaferro, see below). By 1938, most polls showed that Donald was more popular than Mickey Mouse.Disney could, however, help Mickey regain popularity by redesigning him, giving him his most appealing design as production for theFantasiasegment \"The Sorcerer\'s Apprentice\" began in 1938.

After his early appearances, he went on to become part of the famed trio Mickey, Donald, and Goofy. He appeared in many of the cartoons, includingMoving Day.

Several of Donald\'s shorts during the war werepropaganda films, most notablyDer Fuehrer\'s Face, released on January 1, 1943. In it, Donald plays a worker in an artillery factory in \"Nutzi Land\" (Nazi Germany). He struggles with long working hours, very small food rations,and having tosaluteevery time he sees a picture of theFührer(Adolf Hitler). These pictures appear in many places, such as on the assembly line in which he is screwing in the detonators of various sizes of shells. In the end he becomes little more than a small part in a faceless machine with no choice but to obey until he falls, suffering a nervous breakdown. Then Donald wakes up to find that his experience was in fact a dream. At the end of the short Donald looks to theStatue of Libertyand theAmericanFlag with renewed appreciation.Der Fuehrer\'s Facewon the 1942Academy Award for Animated Short Film.Der Fuehrer\'s Facewas also the first of two animated short films to be set during the War to win an Oscar, the other beingTom and Jerry\'s short film,The Yankee Doodle Mouse.

Other notable shorts from this period include a seven film mini-series that follows Donald\'s life in theU.S. Armyfrom his drafting to his experiences in basic training under SergeantPeteto his first actual mission as acommandohaving to sabotage aJapaneseair base. Titles in the series include:

Donald Gets Drafted(May 1, 1942) (shown in his Selective Service Draft Card close up, we learn Donald\'s full name: Donald Fauntleroy Duck)
The Vanishing Private(September 25, 1942)
Sky Trooper(November 8, 1942)
Fall Out Fall In(April 23, 1943)
The Old Army Game(November 5, 1943)
Commando Duck(June 2, 1944)

Thanks in part to these films, Donald graced the nose artwork of virtually every type ofWWIIAlliedcombat aircraft, from theL-4 Grasshopperto theB-29 Superfortress.

Donald also appears as a mascot—such as in theArmy Air Corps309th Fighter Squadronand theU.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, which showed Donald as a fierce-looking pirate ready to defend the American coast from invaders.Donald also appeared as a mascot emblem for:415th Fighter Squadron;438th Fighter Squadron;479th Bombardment Squadron;531st Bombardment Squadron. He also appears as the mascot for theUnited States Air Force319 Aircraft Maintenance Unitat Luke Air Force Base. He is seen wearing an old-style pilot\'s uniform with a board with a nail in it in one hand and a lightning bolt in the other hand. Donald\'s most famous appearance, however, was on North American Aviation B-25B Mitchell medium bomber (S/N 40-2261) piloted by Lt. Ted W. Lawson of the 95th Bombardment Squadron, USAAF. The aircraft, named the \"Ruptured Duck\" and carrying a picture of Donald\'s face above a pair of crossed crutches, was one of sixteen B-25Bs which took off from the aircraft carrier USSHornetto bomb Tokyo on April 18, 1942. The mission was led by Lieutenant Colonel (later General) Jimmy Doolittle. Like most of the aircraft that participated in the mission, the Ruptured Duck was unable to reach its assigned landing field in China following the raid and ended up ditching off the coast near Shangchow, China. The Ruptured Duck\'s pilot survived, with the loss of a leg, and later wrote about the Doolittle Raid in the book, later to be the movie,Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo(Random House pub. 1943).

During World War II, Disney cartoons were not allowed to be imported intoOccupied Europeowing to their propagandistic content. Since this cost Disney a lot of money, he decided to create a new audience for his films inSouth America. He decided to make a trip through various Latin American countries with his assistants, and use their experiences and impressions to create two feature-length animation films. The first wasSaludos Amigos, which consisted of four short segments, two of them with Donald Duck. In the first, he meets his parrot palJose Carioca. The second film wasThe Three Caballeros, in which he meets his rooster friendPanchito.

Several decades after the war, on account of the fact that Donald was never officially separated from service in either his animated shorts or his comic strips- and as part of Donald\'s 50th Birthday celebrations- the U.S. Army retired Donald Duck from active duty as a \"Buck Sergeant\"(i.e. \"Buck Sergeant Duck\") in a special ceremony and parade inTorrance, CAin1984.

Many of Donald\'s films made after the war recast the duck as the brunt of some other character\'s pestering. Donald is seen repeatedly attacked, harassed, and ridiculed by his nephews, by thechipmunksChip \'n\' Dale, or by other characters such asHumphrey the Bear,Spike the Bee,Bootle Beetle, theAracuan Bird,Louie the Mountain Lion, or a colony of ants. In returning the favor (so to speak), Donald also has tempers and anger issues after returning from fighting in World War II; there is a theory in the Internet that says the reason why Donald is prone to having his tempers and anger issues is because Donald hasPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder; said theory mentioned can also be found on YouTube. In effect, much likeBugs Bunnycartoons fromWarner Bros. the Disney artists had reversed the classicscrewballscenario perfected byWalter Lantzand others in which the main character is theinstigatorof these harassing behaviors, rather than the butt of them. The short \'Clown Of The Jungle\' (1947) very much feels like either aDaffy Duckor aWoody Woodpeckercartoon.

The post-war Donald also starred ineducational films, such asDonald in Mathmagic LandandHow to Have an Accident at Work(both 1959), and made cameos in various Disney projects, such asThe Reluctant Dragon(1941) and theDisneylandtelevisionshow (1959). For this latter show, Donald\'s unclesLudwig von Drake(1961) andScrooge McDuck(1967) were then created in animation.

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