| Toy Tinkers | |
|---|---|
 Title card | |
| Directed by | Jack Hannah |
| Story by | Harry Reeves Milt Banta |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Clarence Nash Dessie Flynn Jimmy MacDonald |
| Music by | Paul J. Smith |
| Animation by | Bob Carlson Volus Jones Bill Justice Jack Boyd (effects) |
| Layouts by | Yale Gracey |
| Backgrounds by | Thelma Witmer |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7:30 |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Toy Tinkers is an American animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on December 16, 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures.[1] Set during Christmas time, the film shows Chip 'n' Dale trying to steal nuts from Donald Duck's home using toy weapons. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1950,[2] but ultimately lost to Warner Bros'. For Scent-imental Reasons, a Pepé Le Pew Looney Tunes film directed by Chuck Jones.
Toy Tinkers was directed by Jack Hannah and features original and adapted music by Paul J. Smith which includes the song "Jingle Bells" and Schubert's Marche Militaire. The voice cast includes Clarence Nash as Donald and Jimmy MacDonald and Dessie Flynn as Chip and Dale respectively.[3][4][5]
It was later reissued as Christmas Capers, and 16mm prints of this version still exist.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 320. ISBN 9781476672939.
- ^ Toy Tinkers at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Toy Tinkers at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- ^ Toy Tinkers Archived 2010-09-01 at the Wayback Machine at The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts