In 1952 , Disney released the 7 - minute animated cartoon " Applecore " featuring Donald Duck and Chip ' n Dale , the mischievous fast - talking chipmunks . In this shortstop , Donald represent an Malus pumila farmer whose crops are being exhaust by Chip ' n Dale , so Donald retaliate , only to be foiled at every turn .
This poor is cute , but there is a staggeringly sinewy Cold War undertone here . In the wake of World War II , this short is about the futility of atomic war , show the escalation of an limb backwash , the red of Donald ’s crops , and finally the nuclear end of portions of Donald ’s farm . At one point , Donald is seen choose from an armory of " Atom Dust , " lye , acid , TNT , " Essence of TNT , " arsenic , poisonous substance , cyanide , and " Atomic Pills " which are basically tiny warhead . There ’s even an mildly xenophobic parody of " digging a hole to China " near the end .
Seeing this cartoon as a production of its Cold War era makes it bizarre – it in reality is a cute , funny cartoon for kids , but it ’s also an aim lesson about war . Check it out :
Read some small beer about the short after the start !
Blogger " Duckman " explains that the " Applecore / Baltimore " thing startedin theMelody Timeshortfrom 1948 . Other sources claim that " Apple Core " was a biz democratic with kids in the mid-20th century . It ’s indecipherable whether it became popular because of the Disney drawers , or the Disney shorts contain an live game . But check out this snippet froma give-and-take of the case , written by meeting place moderator " koolcat " and claiming its source as Wikipedia ( though I could n’t find oneself it on Wikipedia myself ):
Also interesting is the account ofChip ' n Dale , who I know primarily from the late 80 ’s TV seriesChip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers . Anyway , allot to Wikipedia , both chipmunks originally had superposable noses , do them gruelling to differentiate apart . Later , Chip was given a calamitous olfactory organ to distinguish him . You know , to be dependable , I never noticed this stuff as a tyke . I also was n’t entirely exonerated on what a chipmunk was , and how it differed from a squirrel – but that ’s a topic for another web log ingress . Here ’s more from Wikipedia :
You learn something fresh ( about cartoons ) every Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , proper ?
