Window Cleaners

1940 film by Jack King

Window Cleaners is an animated short film produced in Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on September 20, 1940 by RKO Radio Pictures.[1]

Window Cleaners
Directed byJack King
Story byCarl Barks
Jack Hannah
Produced byWalt Disney
StarringClarence Nash
Music byPaul J. Smith
Oliver Wallace
Animation byJudge Whitaker
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • September 20, 1940 (1940-09-20)
Running time
8 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesEnglish, French

Voice cast change

Production change

Window Cleaners is the first cartoon to feature Spike the Bee as Donald's main rival. It is also the first Donald Duck cartoon with an opening theme that was used in more than one cartoon.


Home media change

The short was released on May 18, 2004 on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume One: 1934-1941.[2]

Additional releases include:

  • Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Edition II: Donald's Bee Pictures
  • Walt Disney's Funny Factory with Donald Volume 2

References change

  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74-76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. "The Chronological Donald Volume 1 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

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