Changes: Out of Scale

Out of Scale is a 1951 animated short starring Donald Duck and Chip 'n' Dale.

Synopsis

Donald makes a scale model railroad on his property of everything. However, he also gets rid of Chip and Dale's tree when it isn't like the minature trees he planted to be in scale. Chip and Dale try to get even by living in minature scale model houses and doing other acts to annoy Donald. In the end, when their tree has a hole in it and ends up on the railroad track, Chip and Dale take advantage of this to say it is a scale model of California Giant Redwood with a tunnel. Satisfied with the explanation, Donald rides his train through the tunnel and leaves Chip and Dale alone from there on.

Characters

• Donald Duck
• Chip 'n' Dale

Releases

Television

• Disneyland, episode #2.25: "Where Do the Stories Come From?"
• Good Morning, Mickey, episode #3
• The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.5: "Chip 'N Dale"
• Have a Laugh!, episode #55
• Treasures from the Disney Vault, March 16, 2017

Home video

VHS

• Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Chip 'n' Dale (with Donald Duck)
• Everybody Loves Donald

DVD

• Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Four
• Chip 'n' Dale Volume 1: Here Comes Trouble
• Everybody Loves Donald

Trivia

• The short's title was later used for an episode of Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.
• Donald's train is actually a smaller version of Casey Jones' train with his engine as an old 4-4-0 engine or an American type steam locomotive No. 2 from The Brave Engineer. with many shots produced from The Brave Engineer. Locomotives of their wheel arrangement were used most common on American railroads from the 1830s until 1928.
• The short was inspired by Walt Disney's backyard trainset, the Carolwood Pacific Railroad. Both the short and footage of the model train were featured in the Disney anthology episode Where Do the Stories Come From?
• The cartoon's storyline was the basis for the Golden Book "Donald Duck's Toy Train".

Have a Laugh! changes

The following scenes were deleted from the short version due to time constraints:

• The opening shots of the train traveling all over the yard; it opens with Donald filling his train's smokestack with water in Canyonville.
• Donald looking at the time and saying, "Wow! I'm late," and calling out, "All aboard!"
• Donald setting up a model of a farm.
• Donald adjusting a smaller tree where the big one was.
• The chipmunks attempting to stop the train to retrieve their tree and Donald chases them off with a container of oil.
• The scene of the chipmunks in the house is shortened, cutting the following:
  • The chipmunks getting comfortable in the house.
  • The chipmunks tidying up the house.
  • Donald as a milkman providing the chipmunks some tiny bottles of milk.
  • Donald spraying the house with a shower to simulate stormy weather (Donald simulating snow is retained).
  • The sunlamp scene is reduced.

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1930s The Wise Little Hen • Donald and Pluto • Don Donald • Modern Inventions • Donald's Ostrich • Self Control • Donald's Better Self • Donald's Nephews • Good Scouts • Donald's Golf Game • Mother Goose Goes Hollywood • Donald's Lucky Day • The Hockey Champ • Donald's Cousin Gus • Beach Picnic • Sea Scouts • Donald's Penguin • The Autograph Hound • Officer Duck • The Fox Hunt (co-starring Goofy) • Polar Trappers (co-starring Goofy) 1940s The Riveter • Donald's Dog Laundry • Mr. Duck Steps Out • Put-Put Troubles • Donald's Vacation • The Volunteer Worker • Window Cleaners • The Fire Chief • Timber • The Golden Eggs • A Good Time for a Dime • Early to Bed • Truant Officer Donald • Old MacDonald Duck • Donald's Camera • Chef Donald • Donald's Decision • The Village Smithy • The New Spirit • Donald's Snow Fight • Donald Gets Drafted • Donald's Garden • Donald's Gold Mine • Sky Trooper • Bellboy Donald • Der Fuehrer's Face • The Spirit of '43 • Donald's Tire Trouble • Lake Titicaca • Aquarela do Brazil • The Flying Jalopy • Fall Out-Fall In • The Old Army Game • Home Defense • Trombone Trouble • Donald Duck and the Gorilla • Contrary Condor • Commando Duck • The Plastics Inventor • Donald's Off Day • The Clock Watcher • The Eyes Have It • Donald's Crime • Duck Pimples • Cured Duck • Old Sequoia • Donald's Double Trouble • Wet Paint • Dumbell of the Yukon • Lighthouse Keeping • Straight Shooters • Sleepy Time Donald • Clown of the Jungle • Donald's Dilemma • Bootle Beetle • Wide Open Spaces • Chip an' Dale • Drip Dippy Donald • Daddy Duck • Donald's Dream Voice • Blame It on the Samba • The Trial of Donald Duck • Inferior Decorator • Soup's On • Three for Breakfast • Tea for Two Hundred • Donald's Happy Birthday • Sea Salts • Winter Storage • Honey Harvester • All in a Nutshell • The Greener Yard • Slide, Donald, Slide • Toy Tinkers • Billposters (co-starring Goofy) • No Sail (co-starring Goofy) • Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive (co-starring Goofy) • Crazy with the Heat (co-starring Goofy) 1950s Lion Around • Crazy Over Daisy • Trailer Horn • Hook, Lion and Sinker • Bee at the Beach • Out on a Limb • Dude Duck • Corn Chips • Test Pilot Donald • Lucky Number • Out of Scale • Bee on Guard • Donald Applecore • Let's Stick Together • Uncle Donald's Ants • Trick or Treat • Don's Fountain of Youth • The New Neighbor • Rugged Bear • Working for Peanuts • Canvas Back Duck • Spare the Rod • Donald's Diary • Dragon Around • Grin and Bear It • The Flying Squirrel • Grand Canyonscope • No Hunting • Bearly Asleep • Beezy Bear • Up a Tree • Chips Ahoy 1960s The Litterbug Educational Shorts How to Have an Accident in the Home • How to Have an Accident at Work • Donald in Mathmagic Land • Donald and the Wheel • Steel and America • Donald's Fire Survival Plan • Family Planning Songs Donald Duck See Also DuckTales (1987 series) • Donald's Quack Attack • Quack Pack • Pomp and Circumstance • DuckTales (2017 series)

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1940s Private Pluto • Squatter's Rights • Chip an' Dale • Three for Breakfast • Winter Storage • All in a Nutshell • Toy Tinkers 1950s Crazy Over Daisy • Trailer Horn • Food for Feudin' • Out on a Limb • Chicken in the Rough • Corn Chips • Test Pilot Donald • Out of Scale • Donald Applecore • Two Chips and a Miss • Pluto's Christmas Tree • Working for Peanuts • The Lone Chipmunks • Dragon Around • Up a Tree • Chips Ahoy See Also Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers