''Donald Applecore'' is a 1952 American animated short film directed by Jack Hannah and produced by Walt Disney. In the short film,

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is an apple farmer trying to save his crop from Chip 'n' Dale.

Plot

Apple farmer

notices his apples have been nibbled on into applecores and catches Chip 'n' Dale in the act when he sees them dumping the cores in his basket. He captures them and demands apples that aren't eaten. They convince him that they have more better apples, and persuade him to follow them but when he reaches their home, he instead gets more applecores and receives a nasty bite that causes him to fall while Chip & Dale also drop his basket. Seeing them load uneaten apples like a conveyor belt, Donald tries to detour their paths, but they always get the apples back on track by copying him and he once again falls out while trying to ram them. Angered by the turn of events, Donald retrieves his helicopter from the barn, loading it with insect powder from his lab. By means of a shooter-like sprayer at the back, he covers the entire apple field with the powder, but when he checks on Chip & Dale after letting the powder settle, he sees that they have somehow donned tiny gas masks and they continue to eat the apples. Donald tries to get rid of them, but the chipmunks bombard him and cause him to fall off his helicopter. Donald then proceeds to steal their supply by using the helicopter's back propeller to cut a hole in the tree and then putting them in his helicopter. When the chipmunks notice all their apples are gone, Donald then plays the applecore bombarding gag on Dale. Donald then stores all their apples in his silo. The chipmunks then try to get the apples carefully without spilling them, but Dale sets it off and they are covered in apples along with Donald, who was standing on top of the silo. After he gets bombarded by the last apple in the silo, he finally snaps, and combines the insect powder with his other potions, including poison, atomic dust, essence of TNT, lye, acid, cyanide, and arsenic to create a deadly atomic mixture, then adds atomic pills into the mixture to increase the concoction's potency and use it as artillery. Meanwhile, Chip & Dale steal all of Donald's apples while Donald is away. By the time they are finished, Donald arrives and bombards them with the atomic pellets, destroying the silo and a haystack (revealing a needle in the ash) in the process. In the ensuing chase, a pill accidentally enters the chicken coop, where one of his hens eats it, causing it to instantly lay an egg time bomb that explodes while Donald is holding it, creating a hole which sends him all the way to China. While he squabbles with a Chinese person, the chipmunks drop an applecore down the hole causing the applecore gag to play again, with Donald, after claiming his "friend" to be himself, being heard getting hit by a gong as Chip & Dale celebrate their victory.

Voice cast

* Clarence Nash as Donald Duck * Jimmy MacDonald as Chip * Dessie Flynn as Dale

Television

* ''Walt Disney Presents'', episode #5.20: "The Adventures of Chip 'n' Dale" * ''The New Mickey Mouse Club'', episode C-003 (January 19, 1977) * ''Good Morning, Mickey'', episode #5 * ''Mickey's Mouse Tracks'', episode #12 * ''Donald's Quack Attack'', episode #3 * ''The Ink and Paint Club'', episode #1.48: "The Return of Chip 'n' Dale"

Home media

The short was released on November 11, 2008, on '' Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Four: 1951-1961''. Additional releases include: * ''Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Cartoon Collections, Volume 2'' (VHS) * ''The Adventures of Chip 'n' Dale'' (VHS) * ''Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Starring Chip 'n' Dale'' (VHS) * ''Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Starring Mickey & Minnie / Starring Chip 'n' Dale'' (LaserDisc) * '' Melody Time'' (DVD) * ''Chip 'n' Dale Volume 2: Trouble in a Tree'' (DVD)

Notes

Footage of this cartoon is shown in a film about the making of Donald Duck Orange Juice, except that the apples are recolored orange to look like oranges.

External links

*
''Donald Applecore''
at The Internet Animation Database

on Filmaffinity

References

{{Chip 'n' Dale in animation Donald Duck short films Films produced by Walt Disney 1950s Disney animated short films Films directed by Jack Hannah 1952 animated films 1952 films 1950s English-language films Chip 'n' Dale films