Modern Inventions

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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.

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7.1/10

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Adriana Caselotti

Robot Nurse Maid
(voice)

Billy Bletcher

Robot Butler
(voice)
(uncredited)

Cliff Edwards

Robot Barber Chair
(voice)
(uncredited)

Clarence Nash

Donald Duck
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Jack King
Writers
- Carl Barks
- Tom Armstrong
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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 Down and Out with Donald Duck (1987)

Soundtracks
Rock-a-Bye Baby
(uncredited)

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6/10

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.