"The Mad Hermit of Chimney Butte" is an episode of Walt Disney Presents. It aired on April 1, 1960.
Synopsis[]
Legend has it that the desert promontory of Chimney Butte is inhabited by an eccentric hermit who keeps visitors at a distance with his shotgun. Even when the Disney staffers try to photograph the hermit with a telephoto lens, the old recluse blasts away. Closer examination reveals that, under all that white tousled hair, the Mad Hermit is none other than Donald Duck, who has squirreled himself away in the caves of Chimney Butte because of his inability to find peace and quiet anywhere else (as illustrated with clips from earlier Disney theatrical cartoons). But though he thinks he's found solitude at last, Donald is in for quite a surprise: Chimney Butte has been designated an H-bomb testing site!
Voices[]
- Clarence Nash - Donald Duck
- June Foray - Witch Hazel
- Paul Frees - Voice on radio
Additional Crew[]
- Animation: Volus Jones, Al Coe, Bob Carlson, George Kreisl, Bill Justice, John Sibley, Dan MacManus
- Layouts: Yale Gracey
- Backgrounds: Ray Huffine, Thelma Witmer
- Film Editor: Tom Acosta
- Music: Oliver Wallace, Joseph Dubin
- Sound: Robert O. Cook
- Production Supervisor: Harry Tytle
Featured cartoons[]
- The New Neighbor
- Slide, Donald, Slide
- Inferior Decorator
- Beezy Bear
- Hook, Lion and Sinker
- Duck Pimples
Trivia[]
- The re-aired titles artwork appears in the original show without the text imposed on the art.
- forms coherent story divided into four chapters with Walt Disney being the narrator on each chapter
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