"Chip an' Dale" is a 7-minute cartoon from almost 70 years ago. It is a Walt Disney production and was nominated for an Oscar back then losing to a Warner Bros. entry. The title characters in here fight back when Donald takes their home in order to make a nice warm fire. Snow fights ensue. Unfortunately, I have seen many funnier Walt Disney shorts from that era and I was not too well entertained watching this little movie. I cannot agree with the Academy Award nomination, maybe because I am not the biggest Chip/Dale fan in general. But also Donald was underwhelming. The animation, however, was outstanding. There is no denying that. But that is not enough. i do not recommend this little film here. Thumbs down.

Despite the title, this is NOT the first appearance of Chip and Dale in cartoons. Instead, it's their third--and their first starring vehicle. When the film begins, Donald, ever the jerk, chops down Chip and Dale's tree. Naturally the pair resent this--plus he's stolen their nuts! So the pair go in search of their tree or at least what's left of it. The rest is a battle between the two rodents and Donald and, as you'd expect, they get the better of this grouchy bird throughout the cartoon. So is this a classic? Perhaps. I liked the cartoon and it's well made but it also lacks the wonderful sadism of Warner Brothers' comparable pair, Hubie and Bert--characters that were far less popular but whose nasty antics make me laugh car more than a Chip and Dale cartoon. Still, well worth seeing.

A Walt Disney DONALD DUCK Cartoon.CHIP AN' DALE make Donald's life miserable after he cuts down their tree for firewood.The story & animation are routine, but the film is significant in that it is the first in which the Chipmunks are named, hence the title. Clarence "Ducky" Nash supplies Donald's voice; the little rodents are often unintelligible.Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.

This short, nominated for an Oscar in 1947, is probably the best Chip 'n Dale cartoon done. It helps that Donald Duck is the antagonist, giving the cartoon personality the title characters largely lack. The Warner Brothers creation of The Goofy Gophers is far more lively and entertaining for me.Worth watching