Donald's Final Appearance in His Original Duckish Design

Here’s “Mickey’s Grand Opera,” released on March 7, 1936. Donald’s tenth appearance and his last with his original design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVBjeUNQoLg

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Who would you like to see added to the collection next? See the previous PJ Lifestyle Cartoon at Noon selections from this year:

Disney

All 75 of the Silly Symphonies, the Gold Standard of the Era:

1. Walt Disney’s First Silly Symphony: ‘The Skeleton Dance’
2. PETA Would Hate This 1929 Disney Cartoon…
3. Nature Animated to Life
4. A Disney Cartoon Set In Hell!
5. Getting Drunk With Disney’s Merry Dwarfs
6. Summer: The Sixth Silly Symphony, A Sequel to Spring
7. Corn on the Cob as Musical Instrument
8. A Cannibal-Version of Carmen With Clicking Human Skulls… Made By Walt Disney
9. Frolicking Fish Almost 60 Years Before The Little Mermaid
10. Mickey Mouse As a Polar Bear
11. Toy Story‘s Great Grandfather?
12. A Bug Flying Too Close to the Fire In the Darkness
13. Innocence Incarnate: These Smooching Monkeys Will Make You Smile
14. Goodbye Winter! Disney’s Playful Pan Emerges to Call In Spring (two cartoons)
15. Birds of a Feather Flock Together
16. A Cartoon First Released April 17, 1931: Disney’s Mother Goose Melodies
17. Dora the Explorer’s Politically Incorrect Cameo in a 1931 Disney Cartoon
18. Apparently Beavers Invented the Wheelbarrow Before Man
19. A Sweet & Spooky Silly Symphony for Cat Lovers
20. Egyptian Melodies Vs. Father Noah’s Ark
21. Geppetto’s Original Workshop And Cogsworth’s Great-grandparents?
22. When A Cavalry of Horseflies Goes To War Against the Spider
23. Drinking Tea Before the Fox Hunt
24. How Much Can an Ugly Duckling Grow Up Over a Decade?
25. The Marx Brothers As Cartoon Birds
26. A Primordial Winnie the Pooh
27. A Dog Jail Break at the Pound!
28. The First Technicolor Cartoon: Disney’s Still-Amazing ‘Flowers and Trees’
29. It’s Amazing What Kinds of Cartoons Were Considered Family Friendly in 1932…
30. Bugs In Love Battle a Blackbird in Black and White
31. ‘Babes In the Woods’ Vs. The Witch In The Candy Cottage
32. What Secrets Do You See Inside Santa’s Workshop?
33. The Snake Hypnotizes His Prey
34. The Disney Version of Noah’s Ark
35. An Oscar-Winning Cartoon That Defined the Depression Era
36. Who’s Ready to Open Pandora’s Box?
37. Enter Sandman? Where We Go When We Sleep
38. If You Don’t Pay the Piper He’ll Just Take Your Children Instead…
39. When Walt Disney Imagined Santa Claus In Alliance With The Robot Toys
40. The ‘Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil’ Monkeys In Cartoon Form
41. ‘Oh, the World Owes Us a Livin’…’
42. Among the Easter Bunny’s Secrets: Scotch-Colored Paint!
43. Practical Pig Saved Little Red Riding Hood From the Big Bad Wolf
44. Donald Duck’s First Appearance
45. The Lesson of the Flying Mouse: Sometimes A Blessing Is Actually A Curse…
46. Chill Out Today With These ‘Peculiar Penguins’
47. Compare and Contrast: The Goddess of Spring With Snow White…
48. Slow and Steady Wins the Race?
49. What Would You Do If Everything You Touched Turned to Gold?
50. A Cartoon To Teach Kids About the Danger of Celebrating Crime
51. Dreaming of an Innocent Unity With Nature
52. A Fantasy Land Where Everything Is Made of Candy…
53. How Did Disney’s Mae West Bird Caricature Compare With Real Life?
54. VIDEO: If Romeo and Juliet Were A Saxophone and Cello
55. Another 1930s Disney Cartoon with Creepy Racial Stereotypes…
56. What Does It Take to Be the Cock o’ The Walk?
57. What Is the Fate of Broken Toys?
58. Elmer Elephant: Is This the Most Adorable Cartoon in the Whole Series?
59. How Kids Can Learn To Defeat Bullies
60.  ‘I Like a Man That Takes His Time…’
61. The 3 Blind Mouseketeers Vs A Room of Traps
62. A Country Mouse Discovers the Joys of Drinking in the Big City…
63. This Very Cute Video of ‘Mother Pluto’ Parenting Chicks Will Make You Smile
64. 3 Troublemaker Kittens Make a Mess in the Garden
65. The Dark Secrets Hidden in the Woodland Cafe…
66. What Is Animism?
67. One of The Classic Breakthroughs In Animation History
68. When Moths Fly Too Close to The Flame…
69. 3 Babies Fishing For Stars In Dreamland
70. Walt Disney Introduces The Farmyard Symphony on the DisneyLand TV Show
71. Long Before Spongebob: The Underwater Circus of the Merbabies
72. Katharine Hepburn As Little Bo Peep in Blackface
73. Practical Pig Delivers a ‘Harsh Interrogation’ To the Big Bad Wolf
74. This Ugly Duckling Abandond By His Family Will Melt Your Heart

Mickey Mouse:

1. ‘Plane Crazy’: Mickey Mouse at the End of the Silent Era

Donald Duck’s first appearances:

1. “The Wise Little Hen”: Donald Duck’s First Appearance
2. “Orphan’s Benefit”: Which Character Do You Prefer: Donald Duck Vs Popeye?
3. “The Dognapper:” Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck Vs The Dognapper
4. Donald Duck’s 4th Appearance Is One of the 1930s’ Greatest Cartoons
5. Donald Duck’s 5th Appearance: “Mickey’s Service Station”
6. A World War II Donald Duck Cartoon for Veterans Day
7. How to Fish With Chewing Tobacco and a Club
8. Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse Take the Orphans for a Picnic

Fleischer Studios

12 Early Betty Boop Cartoons

1. Betty Boop’s First Appearance
2. Before Betty Boop Was Beautiful…
3. Betty Boop as Snow White In A Cartoon For Jazz Lovers
4. Your Initiation Into Betty Boop’s Secret Society
5. ‘No, He Couldn’t Take My Boop-Oop-a-Doop Away!’ (2 cartoons featured)
6. Why You Shouldn’t Try Robbing Betty Boop
7. The Betty Boop Approach to Dealing With ‘Silly Scandals’
8. Moving Day for Betty Boop!
9. A Plus-Size Betty Boop As Kitty From Kansas City
10. Playing Chess with Betty Boop & Taking a Mean Shot at Mickey Mouse
11. Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions
12. Cab Calloway as ‘The Old Man Of the Mountain’ Chases after Betty Boop

Popeye

1. Popeye The Sailor’s First Animated Appearance
2. Which Character Do You Prefer: Donald Duck Vs Popeye?

22 Color Classics, a competitor to the Silly Symphonies:

1. A Redheaded Betty Boop As Cinderella Debuted a New Series
2. ‘Joy Like This Cannot Be Bought!’ A Cartoon Variation of Hansel and Gretel
3. An Elephant Never Forgets
4. Back When Cartoons Taught the Miraculous Power of Prayer…
5. ‘Momma Don’t Allow No Music Playin In Here’
6. Animal Newlyweds Take Their Honeymoon In Outer Space!
7. Seduced By the Black Swan
8. An Old Couple Reminisces On Falling In Love…
9. Somewhere in Dreamland Tonight
10. When a Chick Tries to Be a Duck
11. Newlywed Flies Pick The Wrong Hotel For Their Honeymoon
12. Greedy Humpty Dumpty Enslaves Nursery Rhyme Creatures To Build His Gold Wall to the Sun
13. Two Lovebirds Take a Hawaiian Honeymoon
14. Dreaming of a Big Train
15. An Eccentric Inventor Saves The Orphans’ Christmas
16. The Wedding of Jack and Jill Rabbit
17. The Rooster and His Harem…
18. Animal Symphony Chaos: ‘The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Often Go Astray…’
19. VIDEO: A Family of Peeping Penguins Finds a New Home
20. A Little Fish Has to Learn His Lesson The Hard Way
21. Cute: Little Lamby Eats His Grass With Sugar
22. The Vegetable Children Don’t Want to Play With the Little Onion Kid

The Films of Ub Iwerks, co-creator of Mickey Mouse, during his years apart from Disney:

Flip the Frog

1. Flip the Frog: The First Sound Color Cartoon
2. Flip the Frog Hallucinating in the Opium Den
3. Flip the Frog Befriends the Ghost Family With Their Skeleton Dog
4. Flip The Frog Vs The Mouse
5. The Village Barber
6. ‘Techno-Cracked’: When Flip the Frog Built a Robot
7. Why Were so Many 1930s Cartoons Set in a Sultan’s Harem?

Willie Whopper

1. An Angel Flashing the Middle Finger In a 1930s Cartoon?
2. Willie Whopper’s Mexican Gun Fight
3. Willie Whopper Steals Neptune’s Crown

Comicolor Cartoons

1. A Very Angry Sun Vs. Old Man Winter
2. A Nutty Knight Escapes from the Insane Asylum
3. Sinbad the Sailor and His Parrot Enjoy Cigars
4. The Tailor Vs The Giant and Everyone Vs The Mouse
5. Baby Bear Has to Learn From Jack Frost the Hard Way…
6. Simple Simon in the Lion’s Den
7. The First Cartoon Version of Aladdin
8. Welcome to Balloon Land! Beware of the Pincushion Man!
9. Humpty Dumpty Jr. Rescues His Sweetheart from a Bad Egg

Columbia Pictures’ Color Rhapsodies series

1. Little Nell With a Heart As Big as Texas
2. The Frog Pond: The Primary Theme of 1930s Cartoons? How to Beat Bullies
3. Skeleton Frolics: An Undead Orchestra Rehearses

Terrytoons By Paul Terry

1. How Farmer Al Falfa Survived the Drought
2. A June Bride: Farmer Al Falfa’s Kitty Elopes With an Alley Cat
3. The Dancing Mice Make War on Farmer Al Falfa and His Cat
4. ‘Scotch Highball’: a 1930 Terrytoon of Animals Racing