Wide Open Spaces (1947 film)

Wide Open Spaces
Donald Duck series
Directed by	Jack King
Produced by	Walt Disney
Story by	MacDonald MacPherson Jack Huber
Voices by	Clarence Nash (uncred.), Billy Bletcher (uncredited)
Music by	Oliver Wallace
Animation by	Don Towsley Paul Allen Emery Hawkins Sandy Strother
Layouts by	Don Griffith
Backgrounds by	Howard Dunn
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s)	September 12, 1947
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6 minutes (one reel)
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Bootle Beetle (1947)
Followed by	Chip an' Dale (1947)

Wide Open Spaces is a 1947 Donald Duck short cartoon, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Jack King for Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Pictures.

Synopsis

A weary Donald pulls his car up to a motel in the wilderness. After finding that only the cot on the porch is available, and costs $16, he drives away to find a spot to set up his noisy air mattress. As typical, Donald does not have an easy night sleep as he desperately tries to pump up the mattress and get some sleep. He then inadvertently causes a rockslide that crushes his car and rolls into a river sleeping with a fish in the bottom. Finally Donald gets some sleep but unknowingly a springy tree's branch strongly inflates the mattress with the pump and when it deflates propelling all the way back right into the motel's cot, Donald is charged the $16, but only spends a matter of seconds before being kicked off the cot and falling in the arms of a cactus, but still sleeping.

Credits

• Direction – Jack King
• Animation – Don Towsley, Paul Allen, Emery Hawkins, Sandy Strother
• Story – MacDonald MacPherson, Jack Huber
• Voices – Clarence Nash (Donald Duck), Billy Bletcher (motel proprietor)
• Music – Oliver Wallace
• Layout – Don Griffith
• Background – Howard Dunn

External links

• Wide Open Spaces at the Internet Movie Database
• Wide Open Spaces on YouTube