SYNOPSICS
Modern Inventions (1937) is a English movie. Jack King has directed this movie. Adriana Caselotti,Billy Bletcher,Cliff Edwards,Clarence Nash are the starring of this movie. It was released in 1937. Modern Inventions (1937) is considered one of the best Animation,Short,Comedy,Family,Sci-Fi movie in India and around the world.
Donald Duck goes to a museum of modern inventions. After getting in without paying, he meets a robot butler who takes Donald's hat every time he sees him. Donald is very annoyed by this and magically fixes himself a new hat every time this happens and strolls on. Ignoring the sign not to touch it, Donald starts playing with a wrapping machine and ends up being wrapped himself. He also encounters and tries out a robot nursemaid and a fully automatic barber chair. They both don't do him much good.
Modern Inventions (1937) Reviews
Inventive Donald Duck 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
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.
Donald sure has lots of hidden hats.
Donald Duck visits a modern inventions museum, where he runs into a wide range of unique machines, including a robotic butler, an automatic baby carriage and a mechanized barber and shoe-shiner. However, Donald realized that he has gotten more than he bargained for in visiting the place when the butler starts taking every hat Donald wears, the baby carriage feeds Donald too much milk and the barber doesn't quite cut Donald's hair like it was supposed to. Donald doesn't quite following directions like the "do not touch" signs at the museum and the butler taking every single hat he has hidden in his clothes; he would stick he should leave his hat off while inside the museum. This cartoon consists of classic Donald humor, from his quacky voice to his frustrated innuendos. It's just funny seeing everything going wrong for him at the museum as the resulting mishaps pile on one after the other. It's obvious that Donald is prone to bad luck, but they are just hilariously portrayed here! Grade A-
The gadgets are the star
"Modern inventions" is an American cartoon from 1937, so it is already over 80 years old and the names King, Bletcher, Edwards and most of all Nash make obvious that this is of course a Disney work. And if they still don't do it for you, then the presence of Donald Duck should. I must say I sometimes struggle a bit with him, even if I generally like him more than Mickey Mouse, if he is the sole entertainer without his nephews for example, but here it works pretty well. Admittedly, he is not doing much except constantly screaming and complaining really, but that is enough. The character is simply cult. The real stars are all the robots you see in here. While the wrapping machine is still mildly funny at best, well deserved for ignoring the sign Uncle Donald, the pampering robot is funnier already and Donald's butt, well lest say tushy or behind, is in for some special treatment. And then right afterwards, it is again as the hairstyling robot mistakes the duck's behind for his head, but as funny as it may be to watch what goes on up there, is what happens to Donald's face that is mistaken for a pair of shoes. The longer this film went on, the more I liked it, but it also has to because the start was just mediocre. And the more often I saw the "Your Hat, please" robot butler, the more funnier he became too. A very nice running gag. Sometimes despite having legends work on these short films / cartoons, they do not turn out as good as this one here. With legends I mean the quartet I mentioned at the beginning of my review. For example I am not sure if I had enjoyed Looney Toons' approach here starring Daffy or so. Maybe I would have, maybe not. But I have always been more of a Disney guy than a WB guy, so who knows. Drifting a bit away now. At almost 9 minutes, it is slightly longer than the majority of cartoons from the Golden Age of Animation. But these here are certainly worth it. Go watch unless you really dislike these old cartoons.
Tremendous fun!
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.