Disney's 1937 animated short film, "
Modern Inventions," opens with Donald Duck entering a
Museum of Modern Marvels. Emphasizing automation and robots, the short has a lot in common with the Fleischer Brother's, "
All's Fair at the Fair," which we looked at earlier in the week.
The museum is full of wonderfully ridiculous inventions from the future such as the
pneumatic pencil sharpener,
peanut sheller,
robotic nurse maid,
old razor blade mangler,
robotic hitch-hiker's aid,
potato peeler, the
hydraulic potato peeler,
mechanical bottle opener, and the
automatic bundle wrapper.
You can watch a clip of "Modern Inventions"
here and you can find the short on the DVD set
Walt Disney Treasures - The Chronological Donald, Volume 1 (1934-1941).
