Timber (1941 film)

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''Timber''

Donald Duck series

Directed by Jack King
Produced by
Walt Disney (executive)
Story by Ed Love
Voices by Clarence Nash, Billy Bletcher
Animation by Emery Hawkins
Ed Love
Ray Patterson
Studio Walt Disney Productions

Timber is a 1941 animated short film, featuring Donald Duck and Peg-Leg Pete.

[edit] Plot

Donald enters as a hobo, walking through the woods, when he spies some food sitting in the window of a cabin. He decides to help himself to some, not knowing that Peg-Leg Pete is trying to enjoy lunch. Pete is angered when Donald steals food right from under his nose, and lights a stick of dynamite, which Donald takes, thinking it a sausage. After the explosion, Pete (in a French Canadian-sounding accent) drags Donald into the woods and tells him that he will have to work for him as a lumberjack for food. Donald is rather incompetent at logging activities, causing a heavy branch to fall on Pete, and running a saw through Pete's clothing. The last straw comes when he chops down a tree that lands on Pete. Furious, Pete starts chasing Donald to some nearby railroad tracks, where they both jump on handcars and begin a lengthy chase. Pete tries to stab Donald with a spear, but only manages to dismantle Donald's handcar piece by piece. Eventually Donald is only running along the tracks, but he manages to largely destroy Pete's by dumping a load of coal from an overhead chute down on his. Pete is then left just riding one wheel on his car like a unicycle. Donald then comes to a railroad switch and pulls it, causing Pete to crash into a row of boxcars. Relieved, Donald wanders off again.

[edit] External links

http://www.disneyshorts.org/years/1941/timber.html