Beach Picnic

Beach Picnic is a cartoon starring Donald Duck and Pluto, released on June 9, 1939.
==Synopsis==
Donald and Pluto's swimming trip to the beach is interrupted by a swarm of hungry ants, among other things.
==Characters==
*Donald Duck (voiced by Clarence Nash)
*Pluto (voiced by Lee Millar)
==Releases==
===Television===
*Disneyland, episode #1.6: "A Story of Dogs"
*Mickey Mouse Club, November 30, 1955
*Mickey's Mouse Tracks, episode #37
*Donald's Quack Attack, episode #26
*Have a Laugh!, episode #30
*Treasures from the Disney Vault, July 2, 2015
===DVD===
* Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald
* Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto
===Streaming===
* Disney+, November 12, 2019
==Have a Laugh! changes==
The following scenes were deleted from the short release due to time constraints:
*Donald placing a pie on the picnic blanket.
*Donald struggling to ride the inflatable horse.
*Pluto listening for the whinnying made allegedly by the horse (but actually by Donald).
*Pluto's confused battle with the inflatable horse; it only shows him deflating the horse with his mouth and getting himself inflated with air that sends him flying.
*One ant scouting for food and, after spotting the picnic (which is shown), calling out to the other ants in the sound of an Indian war hoop.
*The majority of the scene of the ants on and making off with the food; it only shows the ants finishing making a sandwich.
*Donald vowing to get even with the ants.
*The scene of one ant making off with a slice of cake.
*The scene of Pluto struggling with the fly paper is reduced significantly.
*Donald's face getting trapped in fly paper as Pluto licks his face.
==Trivia==
*At the start of the short, Donald is heard singing the popular song "By The Beautiful Sea", albeit with it lyrics sung in quacks rather than actual words.
*The animation of Pluto getting stuck to the flypaper (done here by Shamus Culhane) is a reworking of Norm Ferguson's animation of the same routine in Playful Pluto.
*The short was mentioned by Donald Duck before the next film on the Blu-Ray of Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts - Volume 1, despite the short not included in that aforementioned Blu-Ray set.
*Due to the ants in the short are based on Native Americans, the short is known as a racist cartoon, and therefore has a content disclaimer warning on The Chronological Donald, Volume One and The Complete Pluto, Volume One DVDs and Disney+ streaming service stating that the short includes ethnic and racial stereotypes that will offend modern sensibilities but is still shown uncut for historical reasons.
**Similarly, two other later Donald Duck cartoons "Tea for Two Hundred" and "Uncle Donald Ants" (which coincidentally also featured Donald Duck feuding with ants stealing his food) also feature racially-stereotypical depictions in the ant characters, albeit this time as indigenous African "cannibals" as well as "Rochester"-type slowpokes ants as opposed to Native American ants. Co-incidentally, these two shorts also have a similar content disclaimer warning on their respective DVD releases The Chronological Donald, Volume Three and The Chronological Donald, Volume Four.
*Pluto's ears after shaking his head resemble a African hairstyle from that time.
*This is the first Donald Duck cartoon to co-star Pluto, as well as their second pairing together without Mickey Mouse since "Donald and Pluto".
== Goofs ==
* For some odd reason, the 2011 Have a Laugh! HD re-restoration of the cartoon which appears on Disney+ streaming service uses the incorrect 1941 "A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK" opening card from "Chef Donald", whose copyright notice have the Roman numerals MCMXLI which translates 1941 https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/play/49ca7a72-6d61-4533-a2e1-a946ea416ee1https://archive.org/details/beach-picnic-1939-restored, instead of it's original "A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK" opening card with the Roman numerals MCMXXIX which translates 1939 https://archive.org/details/PILA-1334https://archive.org/details/donaldduckshorts_010. This is despite the fact that the cartoon is not being reissued and therefore survives it's original RKO titles.
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==References==
Category:Donald Duck shorts
Category:Animated shorts
Category:Pluto shorts
Category:1939 shorts