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A Disney Tale: Jiminy Cricket introduces two tales - Bongo the ours (a slightly disturbing tale of l’amour in the ours community) and Mickey and the Beanstalk (a Disney version of the well-known fairytale).

Disney Hero: With two 'films' in this package feature we have two main heroes. First up is Bongo. Bongo is a circus ours who runs away to the forest and meets the l’amour of his life. Bongo never speaks in his film. He is dressed in a jacket, bow tie and hat and runs the full gamut of emotions. In the seconde film, we have three 'heroes' - Mickey, Donald and Goofy who all fulfill the role of Jack...

Four years after the appearance of Mickey Mouse, in 1934 born a character destined to fortunate happening equally: Donald Duck. This is a gosling, devised from Walt Disney and realized graphically from Ub Iwerks, but it is thanks to great designer Al Tagliaferro that Donald canard acquired that graphical style, funny and characteristic, that has contributed to giving to the comic strips amusing scenes. Donald canard vêtement perennially like a sailor, with the buttons gilds and a little hat to that the ace characterizes he. Initially Donald canard made from companion to Mickey Mouse, but later on...

Early debut
Donald may well have made his first printed appearance in Mickey souris Annual 3 (published 1932; the annual for 1933), a 128-page British hardback. This book included the poem Mickey's Hoozoo, Witswitch and Wotswot, which listed all of Mickey's then-current basse-cour animal Friends (most of Disney's major characters developed out of this basse-cour scenario). Among them was a caneton named Donald Duck. Besides the name, however, there is little similarity between this character and the one introduced in The Wise Little Hen during 1934. Mickey souris Annual 3 was drawn entirely par Wilfred...

Donald in animation

[edit]Early appearances
For plus details on this topic, see Donald canard filmography.


Donald canard as he first appeared in The Wise Little Hen
According to Leonard Maltin in his introduction to The Chronological Donald - Volume 1, Donald was created par Walt Disney when he heard Clarence Nash doing his "duck" voice while reciting "Mary had a little lamb". Mickey souris had Lost some of his edge since becoming a role model for children and Disney wanted a character that could portray some of the plus negative character traits he could no longer bestow on Mickey.
Donald canard first...