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Donald Duck is a fictional character developed by, among others, the animator Dick Lundy in 1934 on behalf of Disney Studios. His first appearance in film takes place on June 9, 1934 in the form of a duck costume seaman, in the film A small chicken wise (The Wise Little Hen).

This duck is cranky and angry at the beginning of his film career nice counterpoint to Mickey Mouse. It is fast becoming a hero of his own cartoon series, before rising exponentially extension of his universe through comics from the pen of great writers-American and Italian designers such as Carl Barks or Don Rosa. The importance of the character itself goes back a bit to the many other characters created in the universe ducks Disney, whether relatives like his uncle Scrooge Balthazar or more distant as Myster Mask.

Donald has almost totally disappeared from the world of cinema. In the publishing world, there is still very popular in the Scandinavian countries and northern Europe, where it is even more than Mickey Mouse, as well as in Italy. In Sweden, it is the most popular Disney characters and has its own magazine, which was published in 2001 to over 400000 copies. Conversely, it is not Scrooge and Donald, who has publications to his name in the United States (Uncle Scrooge) and France (Scrooge Magazine). The stories of Donald are still published in such magazines or those of Mickey. Despite the relative absence of the front of the stage, Donald is still very present in the products derived from the Disney universe.

The full name of Donald English, "Donald Fauntleroy Duck," appears on its opinion mobilization in a cartoon in 1941 when the United States led the war and is included in some comics.

History
Animators and artists studios Disney has created several characters around their mouse-starring Mickey Mouse. Most are friends of Mickey initially from the farm animals. There is a cow, Clarabelle Cow and a horse, Horace Horsecollar. The duck had not yet been established.

In 1931, a duck named "Donald Duck" is listed among the friends of the mouse in Mickey's' Hoozoo 'Witswitch, And Wotswot, a poem in a book in the series The Adventures of Mickey Mouse published by David McKay of New York. This story was republished in 1932 in London and illustrated by Wilfred Haughton, in the form of early versions of Mickey Mouse Annual. It allows you to see in the lower left corner for a duck wings short, wearing shorts similar to Mickey, a black head and discovery. It is not really what it will be a few years later.


Birth of a voice
The creation of Donald Duck owes much to the careers of Clarence Nash, "then milk seller" (presenter publicity) for the Adohr Milk Company. It had the sound of horses pulling the wagon milk in an advertisement. In 1933, he decided to drop advertising for this movie studios like Disney CV. He then hears the sounds of animals. At an outlet for his kid in Mary had a little lamb, Walt Disney would have found the voice for his "talking duck".

In December 1933, Clarence Nash signed a contract with Disney Studios to make the voice of a character then create. Nash gave his voice in the original version duck from 1934 to 1983, which has been nicknamed Ducky Nash [11], but he also took part in the definition of its nature, the production process Disney films incorporating dialogues in the early stages of setting.

A duck cartoon
The first official appearance of Donald Duck takes place in the animated film A small chicken notified on June 9, 1934, in which he plays the role of a mother duck lazy hens will put on the way to work. The film is a Silly Symphony and not a Mickey Mouse. Far from having the lead role, it was rather unfortunate comparse in the saga of origin. From this, he is dressed in a suit of marine for Disney, duck recalls water, so the navy. This story is published as a Sunday strips in the United States from September to December 1934, then in France in the Journal de Mickey from April to August 1935 and in book form in the United States in 1935.

Graphically speaking, Donald Duck was born after Flora O'Brien as pencils Art Babbitt, Dick Huemer and Dick Lundy, leaders of a small chicken-wise but it is the latter who resumed and developed in the Gala Orphans (August 11, 1934), the other two leaders who have been placed on the production. For Russell Merritt and JB Kaufman, Dick Lundy did not participate in a small chicken-wise. For them, Art Babbitt and Dick Huemer have done the first sequence with Donald, Babbitt dance scene and the final sequence Huemer. But they were partially cut assembly and the dance scene has been reworked by Frenchy of Trémaudan. In any case in Gala Orphans, the animator Dick Lundy give Donald more angular features (eg beak), a body coarser, feet larger and mostly anthropomorphic arm, rather than wings .

In the Gala Orphans, headed by Burt Gillett, Donald began a career as a supporting role alongside Mickey. It is being seen among other characters to entertain orphans. Its number is to read a poem but had already struggling to declaim, it is interrupted regularly by children who do not understand and correct. All this exasperating and the push for access to anger: sign now feature character in the following films.

1935 The cartoon, a trio and the spiritual father

Donald made his debut in comics since 1934 in the paper version of the Silly Symphony A small chicken wise. This episode, designed by Ted Osborne and Al Taliaferro, has been published in the Sunday comics between September 16 and December 16, 1934.

But it was in 1935 that really arises from the character Donald Duck with a book that is directly dedicated a comic book of 14 pages published by Whitmann. Shortly thereafter, Al Taliaferro draws Donald comics strips in the newspapers. Since Feb. 10, 1935, Ted Osborne and Floyd Gottfredson, Donald incorporates stories of Mickey Sunday, it is small gags that take in three or four cases in a straight over long periods. It appears from March 4 in the history daily journalist Mickey.

It was not until the late 1930's, that the authors-American and Italian designers Disney engage in lengthy stories of Donald Duck.

The trio Mickey-Donald-Goofy
In cinema, Donald appears in several cartoons, as a second râleur role alongside Mickey. Donald is beginning to appear in other films in the series of Mickey Mouse showing all Mickey, Goofy, Minnie and Pluto. In Mickey's Service Station (March 16, 1935), Donald began a trio with Mickey and Goofy. This trio will be present in the majority of short films by Ben Sharpsteen between 1935 and 1938.

This trio is present in many short films and allows writers and animators to submit many comic scenes. These shorts are often referred to as classical animation, as recalled Leonard Maltin [17]. But if you look more closely, most of the gags are centred on one of the characters. The cartoon then boils down to the succession of gags, often specific to each individual because of their characteristics and their physical characteristics (Dingo is naive and simple-minded but that's what makes it endearing and amusing, Donald is angry and fearful, but it is good, Mickey is small but courageous) in a given environment.

In 2004, the trio appears in their first feature film, Mickey, Donald, Goofy The 3 Musketeers.

After 1938, all three characters seem to be alone and are the stars of their own series and this mainly due to the lack of opportunities to develop stories with Mickey Mouse, his character has become too strict for him out of mischief. As a sign of this fact, in June 1938, the short film Trappeurs Arctic has only Donald and Goofy, as a duo.

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