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Inventions modernes

Original title: Modern Inventions
  • 1937
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7.1/10
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Inventions modernes (1937)
AnimationComedyFamilySci-FiShort

Donald Duck visits a museum of modern inventions; among the inventions he struggles with: a robot butler who keeps taking his hat; a package wrapping machine; a robot nursemaid; an automated... Read allDonald Duck visits a museum of modern inventions; among the inventions he struggles with: a robot butler who keeps taking his hat; a package wrapping machine; a robot nursemaid; an automated barber chair.Donald Duck visits a museum of modern inventions; among the inventions he struggles with: a robot butler who keeps taking his hat; a package wrapping machine; a robot nursemaid; an automated barber chair.

  • Director
    • Jack King
  • Writers
    • Carl Barks
    • Tom Armstrong
  • Stars
    • Adriana Caselotti
    • Billy Bletcher
    • Cliff Edwards
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Jack King
    • Writers
      • Carl Barks
      • Tom Armstrong
    • Stars
      • Adriana Caselotti
      • Billy Bletcher
      • Cliff Edwards
    • 11User reviews
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    Adriana Caselotti
    • Robot Nurse Maid
    • (voice)
    Billy Bletcher
    Billy Bletcher
    • Robot Butler
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Cliff Edwards
    Cliff Edwards
    • Robot Barber Chair
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    Clarence Nash
    Clarence Nash
    • Donald Duck
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Jack King
    • Writers
      • Carl Barks
      • Tom Armstrong
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    9OllieSuave-007

    Donald sure has lots of hidden hats.

    Donald Duck visits a modern inventions museum, where he runs into a wide range of unique machines, including a robotic butler, an automatic baby carriage and a mechanized barber and shoe-shiner. However, Donald realized that he has gotten more than he bargained for in visiting the place when the butler starts taking every hat Donald wears, the baby carriage feeds Donald too much milk and the barber doesn't quite cut Donald's hair like it was supposed to. Donald doesn't quite following directions like the "do not touch" signs at the museum and the butler taking every single hat he has hidden in his clothes; he would stick he should leave his hat off while inside the museum.

    This cartoon consists of classic Donald humor, from his quacky voice to his frustrated innuendos. It's just funny seeing everything going wrong for him at the museum as the resulting mishaps pile on one after the other.

    It's obvious that Donald is prone to bad luck, but they are just hilariously portrayed here!

    Grade A-
    10Animany94

    Tremendous fun!

    Watched this recently after so many years! Still makes me laugh!

    Donald Duck is one of my favourites of the classic Disney characters with his short temper and funny voice. And seeing him entering this museum of modern inventions is a whole lot of fun.

    He is welcomed by this robot butler who asks him for his hat, but Donals just puts on a new one. That's a hilarious running gag through the short. How Donald ends up in trouble when he interacts with the inventions in the museum is just as funny as you can think.

    Love this Donald Duck short. Good laugh every time.
    7rbverhoef

    A nice one

    Donald Duck in his first single appearance. He visits a museum of modern inventions. He is not supposed to touch anything but of course he does. The use of the modern inventions are quite funny. The most funny thing is a robot who keeps asking Donald for his hat. Donald put on a new one and there the robot is again. Very funny. 7/10.
    6CuriosityKilledShawn

    Robots back then?

    In this 9-minute cartoon, Donald enters a museum exhibiting the latest inventions, such as robot butlers, robot hitchhikers, robot nannies, robot barber chairs...basically all robot stuff. And still, 70 years later, we have no robots. Weird.

    Anyway, Donald, being as irritable as he is, quickly becomes angered by the inventions and ends up getting slapped around and tormented in the usual ways. It serves him right for scamming himself into the museum for free. It's funny without being thigh-slappingly hilarious. And some of the robots will probably remind you of Bender and his pals from Futurama.
    5lee_eisenberg

    a look to the (possible) future

    We might interpret Disney's "Modern Inventions" as society's idea of what the future would be. Back in the '30s, people were probably hoping for a future of conveniences, continuously reducing our physical exertion. Obviously some of the novelties that did come about in the ensuing decades were nothing like those depicted in the cartoon; I doubt that the average person in 1937 could've envisioned artificial intelligence, let alone a handheld device that can access all the world knowledge.

    I'm probably over-analyzing. It's an OK cartoon. I've always preferred the Looney Tunes over the Disney cartoons.

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    • Trivia
      The climax involving Donald Duck getting a haircut on his butt was submitted by Carl Barks, his first sale.
    • Goofs
      After Donald Duck turns on the Bundle Wrapper machine and gets grabbed. Donald's Napoleon hat disappears while getting wrapped in paper, after the machine finishes wrapping Donald Duck, his Napoleon hat reappears and Donald Duck breaks out of the wrapping paper with his hat on but the robot butler takes his hat away.
    • Quotes

      [repeated line]

      Robot Butler: Your hat, sir!

    • Connections
      Edited into Les mésaventures de Donald (1987)
    • Soundtracks
      Rock-a-Bye Baby
      (uncredited)

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    • Release date
      • June 19, 1937 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Modern Inventions
    • Production company
      • Walt Disney Productions
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    • Runtime
      9 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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