Modern Inventions (1937)

Watched this recently after so many years! Still makes me laugh! Donald Duck is one of my favourites of the classic Disney characters with his short temper and funny voice. And seeing him entering this museum of modern inventions is a whole lot of fun. He is welcomed by this robot butler who asks him for his hat, but Donals just puts on a new one. That's a hilarious running gag through the short. How Donald ends up in trouble when he interacts with the inventions in the museum is just as funny as you can think. Love this Donald Duck short. Good laugh every time.

I have seen Donald Duck in Modern Inventions. Donald Duck scams his way without paying into the Museum of Modern Marvels. He looks at the machines and meets a robot butler who takes many of his hat by force. But Donald Duck makes a new one appear by magic.Donald Duck tries out the machines on display from the hitchhikers aid kit which a robot pokes his eyes, he gets himself wrapped in the package by a machine.He also goes in the robotic baby crib with the robot maids voice, he plays and acts like a baby and has a bottle of milk squirted all over his face, he tries to escape but the machine locks him with a metal clamp, the toy hits his face. Then the machine puts a diaper on him.Finally Donald Duck sees a barber machine and decides to get a haircut. He actives the machine with his coin. The robot chair then flips Donald upside down with his head locked in the shoe shiner while his feathery rear end is locked in the chair. The machine mistakes Donald's butt for his head and his face for shining shoes. The machine cuts and combs Donald's tail feathers and putting a hot towel on it turning his butt red, while his face is being brushed and painted all black.After the machine is done Donald Duck has a shined black face and a combed rear end. The robot takes Donalds last hat and Donald throws a temper tantrum.This was one of the silliest and most embarrassing Donald Duck cartoon I've ever seen, having a black face while getting a rear end haircut when he doesn't wear pants. I even wonder if he ever had his face washed off, Or even got a new hat.You can find this on the Walt Disney Treasury Donald Duck Volume 1 or you can watch the video online for free. It's one of the most famous Donald Duck cartoons ever.Did Donald Duck ever wash off the black shoe shine off his face and did he ever get all of his hats back from the robot butler, I want to see a sequel as this ended in a cliffhanger. There should be an action figure of Donald Duck with a black painted face and hairstyle rear end with the pig tail or Donald Duck wearing different hats or wearing a diaper as depicted in the cartoon.

I really liked this cartoon, it is inventive and very funny. The animation is nice and colourful, though the character animation of the robots was a little stiff. And the cartoon does start off a little slow. The music is top notch, very playful and pleasant. Donald is as cantankerous as ever, especially when voiced by Clarence "Ducky" Nash, who captures the character perfectly.On the whole, the cartoon is very funny, from the ongoing joke about the robot(voiced by Billy Bletcher, original voice of Pete) taking Donald's hats, to the part when Donald disguises himself as a baby and gets more than he bargained for. Modern Inventions is an inventive and fun cartoon, and for fans of the cantankerous quack, this is definitely worth the watch. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Donald Duck in his first single appearance. He visits a museum of modern inventions. He is not supposed to touch anything but of course he does. The use of the modern inventions are quite funny. The most funny thing is a robot who keeps asking Donald for his hat. Donald put on a new one and there the robot is again. Very funny. 7/10.