Product Description
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An hour-long collection of Disney cartoons. Chicken in the
Rough, 1951, In a farmyard a hen is sitting on a nest of eggs
when Chip an' Dale, who are picking acorns, come upon the eggs. A
baby chick comes out of one of the eggs and Dale, in trying to
stuff chick back into the egg, gets involved with a rooster. He
is finally trapped under hen with rooster pacing out in front.
Chip 'n' Dale, 1947, Cold Awakens Donald; he goes out to chop
tree for log. Chipmunks, Dale and Chip, inside log, shaken out
into snow, follow Don into house to get nuts left in log. They
try various ways to get log from fireplace and finally succeed.
Out of Scale, 1951, Donald, as the engineer of a miniature train,
runs into difficulties with Chip 'n Dale when he replaces an oak
tree, where they have stored nuts, with a miniature tree. A chase
follows and chipmunks end up in the miniature village where they
duck into a tiny house. Gags follow with Donald simulating
extremes of weather. Chips decide to get their tree back. Tree is
kicked onto tracks and train drives a hold through the tree.
Chips put "Giant Redwood" sign on tree and convince Donald it is
in scale. Two Chips and a Miss, 1952, Chipmunks attend a
nightclub and vie with one another for attention of a nightclub
singer who divides her attention between the two. Food for
Feudin', 1950, Chipmunks fill a tree with nuts. Pluto causes the
nuts to roll down into his doghouse. They try to retrieve nuts.
Eventually lure Pluto up hill with nuts. Working for Peanuts,
1953, Chip and Dale steal peanuts from Dolores, the elephant.
Donald, using Dolore's trunk as a vacuum cleaner, pulls the
peanuts away from the thieves, and then in machine- fashion,
he shoots the nuts back at the chipmunks. He misses the
chipmunks, they laugh, he chases them and knocks himself out by
hitting a wall. Chipmunks cover themselves with whitewash, and
sneak back into the zoo as rare albino chipmunks, fooling both
Donald and Dolores into giving them more peanuts. Out on a Limb,
1950, Donald, as a tree surgeon, discovers the tree home of Chip
an' Dale and decides to have sport. The chipmunks, unaware he is
in the tree, think the tree pruner is a monster. Gags with pruner
and lawn mower; Donald loses and has tantrum. Three for
Breakfast, 1948, Chip and Dale try to get pancakes which Donald
is making. Fork flies in and leaves with pancake on it. Continues
until fork misses and sticks into pan of rubber cement, spilling
on stove which forms rubber pancake. Donald replaces pancake with
rubber cake. The chipmunks are frustrated, and the gag backfires
on Donald. Dragon Around, 1954, Donald, a steamshovel operator,
is clearing an excavation and must tear out the tree where the
Chips are living. Chip and Dale have been reading a fairy tale
and imagine the steamshovel is a dragon. When they see their home
threatened, they set out to 'kill' the dragon. Donald decides he
is going to have some fun and tease the Chips. In the course of
the battle that ensues, the Chips manage to get into Donald's
tool chest. With his wrench they unbolt the steamshovel, causing
it to fall apart. Having thus 'slain' the "Dragon," they save
their home.
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The mischievous chipmunks Chip and Dale began as the unnamed
rodent-pests in "Private Pluto" (1943); they acquired names in
their third film, "Chip an' Dale" (1947). Although the duo became
a mainstay of the Disney shorts during the late '40s and '50s,
primarily as adversaries for Donald Duck, the characters never
quite gelled. Their appearance and the pitch and
comprehensibility of their voices change noticeably from film to
film. Chip (the smarter one with the smaller nose) and Dale (the
dim one with the larger nose and, often, buck teeth) are at their
best when they're trying to protect their home and acorns from
Donald ("Chip an' Dale," "Out on a Limb") or Pluto ("Food for
Feudin'"). They're less appealing when they become aggressors
("Three for Breakfast"). The other three entries in the Classic
Cartoon Favorites series, devoted to Mickey, Donald, and Pluto,
repeat many of the shorts previously released in the Walt Disney
Treasures series ( /exec/obidos/tg/stores/series/-/266/${0} ).
This disc is the first one devoted entirely to Chip an' Dale.
(Unrated, suitable for ages 5 and older: cartoon violence, minor
ethnic stereotyping) --Charles Solomon