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Released
1961 · FILM

Donald and the Wheel

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Written by
Runtime
17 min
Animation

Synopsis

A father tells his son that the invention of the wheel was the most important, and to prove it, the two hipsters visit the inventor, the caveman Donald Duck. The film then presents a survey of the progress of transportation, a digression into the basics of gear ratios, a series of live-action dancers performing to various styles of music inside a giant jukebox, and an illustration of the use of wheels in power generation and space satellites. Ultimately, Donald decides he doesn't want the responsibility, but he acknowledges that certainly someone else would take on the task.

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Principal cast & crew: 9

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

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Scored by Buddy Baker

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