Walt Disney Treasures: Walt Disney On the Front Lines - The War Years

Donald Fauntleroy Duck gets his draft notice and goes in, past all the amazingly enticing recruiting posters, to sign up. First he has to pass the physical. Despite his flat feet, he makes it. Donald wants to fly, but first he has to make it through Sergeant Pete's boot camp. He has a terrible time with close-order drills, and standing at attention without moving when he's over an ant-hill proves a real challenge. Eventually, Donald ends up on endless KP.

Pluto sees the great chow the mascots at the army base are getting and decides he wants some of that. He sneaks in and disguises himself as Gunther Goat, but the "food" is just a bunch of tin cans. Gunther runs him off. Later, Gunther chews on some tobacco, so Pluto does the same, which impresses the GIs but Gunther butts him and makes him swallow it, making Pluto turn all kinds of colors. While Pluto is out, Gunther prepares to butt him into the ammo dump, but Pluto collapses and Gunther himself gets blown sky high, clearing the way for a new mascot.

Pluto is a guard dog on a military base. He's told there are saboteurs, and is assigned to guard a pill-box (gun emplacement). Before long, the "saboteurs" reveal themselves: Chip and Dale, making their debut, using the cannon-like gun as their own personal nutcracker.

Private Donald Duck has a tough time during training march.

Private Donald is caught going AWOL and Sgt. Pete is waiting in his barraks for him.

Donald is manning a listening post and falls asleep; he blows trumpet calls in his sleep and wakes his nephews. For their revenge, they send up a model airplane filled with gingerbread men with parachutes; Donald shoots it down, and cowers in fear when he sees the parachutes (and hears a simulated battle), until one lands on his beak. Donald kicks his nephews out until he mistakes a bee for an airplane, and calls them back to fight this menace.

Goofy demonstrates the history of water transport, from the first prehistoric use of floating logs to the modern battleship.

Donald Duck is ordered to wipe out a Japanese airfield. After parachuting out of an airplane, he lands in a Japanese forest. He uses an inflated canoe to cross the river, but as soon as it fills up with water, Donald is running for his life. He makes sure the canoe hits nothing that would pop it. When he gets to the edge of a cliff, he sees the airfield. The canoe has already exploded, causing water to flow. This large amount of water splashes onto the airfield, wiping the whole thing clean, but leaving disfigured airplanes.

Private Donald Duck gets into trouble when he performs his camouflage painting duty too well with experimental paint that makes anything painted invisible.

Private Donald Duck finally gets a chance to go up in the air, only to find he's less than enthusiastic for the real thing.

To combat the wartime shortages in gas and tires, a number of fanciful forms of transportation are demonstrated by various versions of Goofy. Finally, we see the ultimate solution: the pogo stick.

Donald Duck has a nightmare that he lives in Germany slaving under the Nazi regime.

A young German boy is indoctrinated into conforming with the Nazi social mindset.

A film about the need for emotional control for the war effort.

A re-telling of the classic "Three Little Pigs" story with an emphasis on War Savings Certificates.

The Seven Dwarfs mine their diamonds for conversion into war bonds for the Canadian war effort.

In this wartime short, Donald is encouraged by his good "angel" side to buy war bonds. He is encouraged by his bad "devil" side to spend his money as he wishes. Donald has a lot of trouble deciding, but finally makes the right decision to buy war bonds.

The entire Disney menagerie appears in a parade urging the purchase of war bonds.

Animated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.

Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.

A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output.

Documentary short film demonstrating the process by which waste fats from the kitchens of American homes can be transformed into the raw materials for explosives for the war effort.

This animated documentary outlines the history and importance of corn in North America.

A doctor persuades a group of boys to be vaccinated by explaining how it will protect them against disease.

The comparison of two rural families to demonstrate the need for proper hygiene and the consequences of its neglect.