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A Good Time for a Dime
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Wikipedia article
'A Good Time for a Dime' is a 1941 Disney short film in which Donald Duck watches a risqu Daisy perform the "Dance of the Seven Veils" in a Mutoscope at a penny arcade nickelodeon peep show. Donald also struggles with a crane drop machine and a miniature airplane ride.
Plot
Inside a penny arcade, Donald inserts a coin to play a Mutoscope entitled "Dance of the Seven Veils". The pictures show dances of a Daisy Duck looking dancer until Donald's viewing is rudely interrupted by a black out. Next Donald tries out a crane machine to win a camera, but he finishes empty handed when he sneezes all the stuff back in the crane machine. Then Donald goes on a coin-operated airplane ride, but his ride is very short. When he tries to get another ride for free, the plane goes out of control, Donald nearly getting caught in the airplane propellers and becoming airsick. With that, Donald leaves the arcade.
Voice cast
* Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
Reception
Concerning the "somewhat orientalized Daisy", the 'Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters' says that her appearance is "a brief and anonymous one; it is also her sexiest." However, it has been criticized as "unproblematically [representing] all of the Western stereotypes about the harem. 'A Good Time for a Dime' manufactures the harem as a setting separate from any social phenomena and full of obliging women happily catering to male sexual fantasies."
'The Film Daily' called the short a "dandy cartoon", saying, "Donald Duck is back with a plenitude of hearty laughs for audiences in this short."
'Motion Picture Herald' said that 'A Good Time for a Dime' is "an excellent Donald Duck color cartoon that pleased everyone," and "one of Disney's funniest".
Home media
The short was released on May 18, 2004, on 'Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941'.
References
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