Donald's Ostrich

Donald's Ostrich
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJack King
Story byCarl Barks
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringElvia Allman
Billy Bletcher
Clarence Nash
Pinto Colvig
Jean Murtagh
Zena Baer
Don Brodie
Jack Clifford
Jack Crosby[1]
Music byOliver Wallace
Animation byJack Hannah
Paul Allen
Johnny Cannon[2]
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • December 10, 1937 (1937-12-10)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Donald's Ostrich is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on December 10, 1937, by RKO Radio Pictures.[3] It was the first film in the Donald Duck series of short films, although billed at the time as a Mickey Mouse cartoon. It was the first of the series to be released by RKO.[4]

Donald's Ostrich was directed by Jack King and features the voices of Clarence Nash as Donald Duck, Pinto Colvig as Hortense the Ostrich, and Elvia Allman and Billy Bletcher as radio voices.

  1. ^ Scott, Keith (October 3, 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media.
  2. ^ Donald's Ostrich Archived November 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  4. ^ Donald's Ostrich at the Internet Movie Database