Donald Duck 1961 Donald And The Wheel
Transcript
00:00 [Music]
00:09 [Music]
00:38 [Music]
00:41 [Music]
00:48 Hey Pops, what is that? Tell me what we're geeping at.
00:53 Well, right here, Junior, is the greatest invention, the story of which I am about to reveal.
00:59 Well, frost me, Poppa, can it be your intention to back your chappers over nothing more than a wheel?
01:05 Your brain is all tied up in a sling to think a wheel is such a great thing.
01:11 Well, you young whippersnapper, you name me a better invention.
01:15 Senseville, Daddy-O, try this for size. Like a don't you dig the air a plane to be greater.
01:21 Well, without the old wheel, that thing would just go to pop.
01:24 The motor car? Now that was no second rate.
01:27 But take away the wheel and that invention is shot.
01:30 There's not a single thing you can find that ever did as much for mankind.
01:36 Look here, Pop, you must be in the wrong scene.
01:38 Not me.
01:39 Let me toss some more examples at you.
01:42 The typewriter? Wheel.
01:44 The steam engine? Wheel.
01:45 Here I whip these cottons in? Wheels, wheels, wheels.
01:48 The sewing machine? Wheel.
01:49 The washing machine? Wheel.
01:51 Never knew so many things depended on wheels.
01:54 Well, you can keep on naming them, son, but there's a wheel in every last one.
02:00 So come on, Junior, let's go back through the ages.
02:03 Way back in the days that I can hardly recall.
02:06 And watch what happens through the various stages.
02:09 Beginning from the time when there were no wheels at all.
02:12 Now tell me, who are we going to meet on this deal?
02:15 Why, the inventor, son.
02:16 The inventor?
02:17 Yes, the inventor of the wheel.
02:23 Oh, fine, I'd love to meet him.
02:29 Ah, now then, Junior, looks like our boy there.
02:33 Hey, look, no wheels.
02:35 Pops, well, I declare he don't look like an inventor to me.
02:38 Quiet, Junior, just watch and see.
02:40 Say, life was a struggle in the prehistoric age.
02:44 Yes, you'll note, Junior, man was in his bare essential state.
02:48 Food was scarce and clothes were few.
02:54 And I see there was a housing shortage, too.
02:57 Ah-ha, now we come to the part where the whole idea gets its start.
03:01 Hey, buddy, wake up.
03:03 Turn around, here's your big chance to be world-renowned.
03:06 It is?
03:08 Sure, draw up that idea.
03:11 That's it, good, study it.
03:14 Now then, is it understood?
03:16 No, uh-uh, what is it?
03:19 Why, that's a wheel like the one you've just seen.
03:22 What do I do with it?
03:24 What'll he do with it? Hey, use your bean.
03:26 Think of the possibilities. Where's your vision?
03:29 This is no moment for indecision.
03:31 Say, the wheel's a great idea.
03:35 Oh, no, boy, no.
03:37 That use of the wheel is hardly apropos.
03:40 Go on and roll it, boy, roll it down the hill.
03:43 Wait, I'll dig it.
03:45 I'm sure you will.
03:47 Kazooks, Pop, this cat is really nowhere.
03:50 In some circles, we'd call him square.
03:52 Well, he's pretty slow, Junior, but don't be upset.
03:56 Hey, boy, you haven't got it yet.
03:59 Oh, yeah? Say, who are you two guys?
04:03 Why, we're the Spirits of Progress,
04:05 and we advise you to pay some undivided attention
04:08 while we help you with your great invention.
04:11 Listen, and we'll show you how.
04:14 How what?
04:15 How to... well, just follow us now.
04:19 Find yourself a log. Here's what you do.
04:22 Slice off a slice. Yeah, better make it two.
04:25 Attach those slices to your sled.
04:28 Hey, pull it, boy. Go ahead.
04:32 Now, young man, right here you decide
04:35 why should you pull when you can ride.
04:39 You better add sides to this knockabout
04:42 so you and your possessions won't fall out.
04:45 Okay, driver, you know how.
04:48 Say, looky there, he's making progress now.
04:51 ♪ Man's first wheels were heavy and queer ♪
04:55 ♪ Better wheels were soon to appear ♪
04:57 ♪ When the Egyptians came ♪
04:59 What did they do?
05:00 ♪ They made real progress ♪
05:02 How do you like those Egyptians?
05:04 ♪ Early Greeks advanced the wheel more ♪
05:08 ♪ Light and fast as never before ♪
05:11 ♪ And then the Romans came ♪
05:13 What did they do?
05:14 ♪ And they made progress ♪
05:16 Oh, those Romans.
05:17 ♪ Soon there were work carts ♪
05:19 ♪ Mail carts, strong carts, rail carts ♪
05:22 ♪ Carriages and gigs ♪
05:25 ♪ Wagons, chaise, and cabarets ♪
05:28 ♪ And all kinds of rigs ♪
05:32 ♪ Transportation vastly improved ♪
05:35 ♪ On those wheels how everything moved ♪
05:38 ♪ People were traveling ♪
05:39 They were going.
05:40 ♪ On wheels of progress ♪
05:42 [tires screeching]
05:45 [tires screeching]
05:53 Stop.
05:55 Now, another phase, Junior.
05:58 ♪ Taking good advantage of steam ♪
06:01 ♪ Out of someone's wonderful dream ♪
06:04 ♪ The locomotive came ♪
06:06 What for?
06:07 ♪ To add to progress ♪
06:09 Good answer.
06:11 ♪ Flanges on each rim of the wheel ♪
06:15 ♪ Rolled along on ribbons of steel ♪
06:18 Known as the railroad track.
06:20 Clickety-clack.
06:21 ♪ And tracks of progress ♪
06:23 Progress, yes.
06:24 ♪ Those trains got bigger, stronger ♪
06:27 ♪ And much longer, faster too, of course ♪
06:32 ♪ Finally, man found that he could ♪
06:36 ♪ Outrun a horse ♪
06:38 ♪ Distances got shorter somehow ♪
06:41 ♪ Lots of folks were traveling now ♪
06:44 ♪ And it was all about ♪
06:46 Doo-doo.
06:47 ♪ On wheels of progress ♪
06:49 [tires screeching]
06:59 Stop.
07:01 Now, the next phase, Junior.
07:04 ♪ One day, man cried blankety-blank ♪
07:07 ♪ While he grimly twisted a crank ♪
07:10 ♪ But when the engine caught ♪
07:12 Watch it now.
07:13 ♪ He made slight progress ♪
07:15 Get a horse.
07:17 ♪ Rubber tires inflated with air ♪
07:20 ♪ Wheels were truly going somewhere ♪
07:25 ♪ And it was fun to be ♪
07:27 To be what?
07:28 ♪ In stride with progress ♪
07:30 Good old progress.
07:31 ♪ Soon, roads were two lanes, four lanes ♪
07:34 ♪ More and more lanes ♪
07:36 ♪ And man sure took to wheels ♪
07:39 ♪ Highways crammed and freeways jammed ♪
07:42 ♪ With automobiles ♪
07:46 ♪ Year by year, increasing the pace ♪
07:49 ♪ Everyone got into the race ♪
07:52 It was the motor age.
07:54 Ooh, the traffic.
07:55 ♪ On wheels of progress ♪
07:58 [tires screeching]
08:00 Stop!
08:16 [tires screeching]
08:18 I'd rather walk.
08:22 Good-bye.
08:23 What'd he say, Junior?
08:25 He implies he'd rather be a pedestrian, Pops.
08:28 Now, boy, that's a negative stand.
08:31 Let's get back to the problem at hand.
08:33 Almost 2 million years man endures
08:38 waiting for that great invention of yours.
08:41 You mean that thing?
08:43 Yes, lad, and don't you doubt it.
08:45 Why, even now, you couldn't live without it.
08:48 Aw, sure, I'm doing fine without it.
08:51 No, no, my friend.
08:53 This round Earth you've been spinning since your birth,
08:56 round and round on a wheel like that.
08:58 Don't tell me. The Earth is flat.
09:01 Pops, don't he know what Columbus proved?
09:04 Son, this boy is way back, millenniums removed.
09:08 Then let's fill him in and set him straight.
09:11 Yeah, say, Junior, why don't you elucidate?
09:14 Crazy.
09:15 Well, Swinger, here's the bit.
09:19 Now, the globe spins like a wheel.
09:21 You can quote what I say.
09:23 One full turn knocks off one full day.
09:26 Now, to check out the moon,
09:30 the fact we face is it swings around the Earth
09:33 on a monthly basis.
09:35 Both Luna and Terra Firma, they cut around the sun.
09:42 And dig this, it takes a year to get that done.
09:46 It's like, man, a natural timer.
09:50 One of those deals where nature naturally makes it with wheels.
09:54 Wheels within wheels. You with me, Doc?
09:57 Same kind of setup we use in a clock.
09:59 A different wheel for a different speed.
10:02 Just what the hours, the minutes and the seconds need.
10:05 Say, jump on that large wheel, Neanderthal.
10:09 This is fun.
10:13 And now, plant your wedgies on the little one.
10:18 It went pretty fast, didn't it, Kid?
10:21 Wow, it sure did.
10:23 Though it may seem incidental,
10:26 still a basic fundamental should be mentioned here
10:29 before the point is passed.
10:31 Illustrating it by ratio,
10:33 will show just how slow the gears go or how fast.
10:36 Count the teeth around these two gears.
10:38 Now, the largest, twice the number, you'll concede.
10:41 Twice the number, consequently,
10:43 if you spin it gently,
10:45 and that's the principle of the thing.
10:48 That's the principle of the thing.
10:50 How the gears speed is related to the ratio we have stated
10:53 is the scientific principle of the thing.
10:56 Now, attend this demonstration of some wheels in combination
11:01 using shafts and belts and bratches, balls and cannons.
11:04 Gears eccentric, gears elliptic, though their purpose may seem cryptic,
11:07 they are often found in simple diagrams.
11:09 Here are skulls and worms and sectors with escapements and connectors.
11:12 These demand no explanation, here I trust.
11:14 And the speed and gear reduction we determine in construction
11:17 based upon the ratio earlier discussed.
11:20 And that's the principle of the thing.
11:22 That's the principle of the thing.
11:25 How the gears speed is related to the ratio we have stated
11:28 is the fascinating principle of the thing.
11:30 Watch the girl!
11:32 [The Girl]
11:35 [The Girl]
11:39 [The Girl]
11:42 [The Girl]
11:46 [The Girl]
11:49 [The Girl]
11:55 [The Girl]
12:00 [The Girl]
12:07 [The Girl]
12:14 [The Girl]
12:17 Hey, Pops, what is that?
12:23 Tell me what we're gaping at.
12:25 Well, right here, Junior, is the greatest invention,
12:29 the story of which I am about to reveal.
12:31 Well, frost me, Pop, can it be your intention
12:35 to bat your chappers over nothing more than a wheel?
12:37 Your brain is all tied up in a sling
12:40 to think a wheel is such a great thing.
12:43 Well, you young whippersnapper, you name me a better invention.
12:47 Since, Vildadio, try this for size.
12:50 Like, don't you dig the air, a plane to be greater.
12:53 Why, without the old wheel, that thing would just go to pot.
12:56 The motor car? Now, that was no second rate.
12:59 But take away the wheel and that invention is shot.
13:02 There's not a single thing you can find
13:05 that ever did as much for mankind.
13:08 Look here, Pop, you must be in the wrong scene.
13:10 Not me.
13:11 Let me toss some more examples at you.
13:14 The typewriter. Wheel.
13:16 The steam engine. Wheel.
13:18 Here I whip these cottons in. Wheels, wheels, wheels.
13:20 The sewing machine. Wheel.
13:22 The washing machine. Wheel.
13:24 Never knew so many things depended on wheels.
13:26 And you can keep on naming them, son,
13:29 but there's a wheel in every last one.
13:32 So come on, Junior, let's go back through the ages,
13:35 way back in the days that I can hardly recall,
13:38 and watch what happens through the various stages,
13:41 beginning from the time when there were no--
13:43 Why should you pull when you can ride?
13:46 You better add sides to this knockabout
13:49 so you and your possessions won't fall out.
13:52 Okay, driver, you know how.
13:55 Say, looky there, he's making progress now.
13:58 Man's first wheels were heavy and queer.
14:02 Better wheels were soon to appear.
14:05 When the Egyptians came...
14:06 What'd they do?
14:07 They made real progress.
14:09 How do you like those Egyptians?
14:11 Early Greeks advanced the wheel more,
14:15 light and fast as never before.
14:18 And then the Romans came.
14:20 And what did they do?
14:21 And they made progress.
14:23 Oh, those Romans.
14:24 Soon there were work carts, mail carts,
14:27 strong carts, rail carts, carriages and gates,
14:31 wagons, chaises and cabarets
14:35 and all kinds of rigs.
14:38 Transportation vastly improved.
14:42 On those wheels how everything moved.
14:45 People were traveling.
14:46 They were going.
14:47 On wheels of progress.
14:49 [tires screeching]
14:52 I think a wheel is such a great thing.
14:54 Well, you young whippersnapper,
14:56 you name me a better invention.
14:58 Stanceville, Daddy-O, try this for size.
15:01 Like a don't you dig the air, a claim to be greater.
15:04 And without the old wheel,
15:05 that thing would just go to pot.
15:07 The motor car?
15:08 Now that was no second rate.
15:10 But take away the wheel and that invention is shot.
15:13 There's not a single thing you can find
15:16 that ever did as much for mankind.
15:19 Look here, Pop, you must be in the wrong scene.
15:21 Not me.
15:22 Let me toss some more examples at you.
15:25 The typewriter.
15:26 Wheel.
15:27 The steam engine.
15:28 Wheel.
15:29 And I went in this cotton gin.
15:30 Wheels, wheels, wheels.
15:31 The sewing machine.
15:32 Wheel.
15:33 Never knew so many things depended on wheels.
15:36 And you can keep on naming 'em, son,
15:39 but there's a wheel in every last one.
15:42 So come on, Junior, let's go back through the ages,
15:45 way back in the days that I can hardly recall
15:48 and watch what happens through the various stages,
15:51 beginning from the time when there were no wheels at all.
15:54 Now tell me, who are we gonna meet on this deal?
15:57 Why, the inventor, son.
15:59 The inventor?
16:00 Yes.
16:01 Where are your possibilities?
16:03 Where's your vision?
16:04 This is no moment for indecision.
16:06 Say, the wheel's a great idea.
16:10 Oh, no, boy, no.
16:12 That use of the wheel is hardly apropos.
16:15 Go on and roll it, boy, roll it, down the hill.
16:18 Wait, I'll get it.
16:20 I'm sure you will.
16:22 Kazooks, Pop, this cat is really nowhere.
16:25 In some circles, we'd call him square.
16:28 I know, Junior, but don't be upset.
16:31 Hey, boy, you haven't got it yet.
16:34 Oh, yeah?
16:35 Say, who are you to judge?
16:38 Why, we're the spirits of progress,
16:40 and we advise you to pay some undivided attention
16:43 while we help you with your great invention.
16:46 Listen, and we'll show you how.
16:48 How what?
16:50 How to... well, just follow us now.
16:53 Find yourself a log, and here's what you do.
16:57 You take a slice. Yeah, better make it two.
17:00 Attach those slices to your sled.
17:03 Hey, pull it, boy.
17:05 Go ahead.
17:07 Now, young man, right here you decide.
17:10 ( music playing )
17:13 ( music playing )
17:17 ( music playing )
17:20 ( music playing )
17:24 ( music playing )
17:51 ( singing gibberish )
17:54 Hey, Pops, what is that?
18:01 Tell me what we're geepin' at.
18:03 ♪ Well, right here, Junior, is the greatest invention ♪
18:07 ♪ The story of which I am about to reveal ♪
18:10 ♪ Well, floss me, Pop, can it be your intention ♪
18:13 ♪ To back your chappers over nothing more than a wheel ♪
18:16 ♪ Your brain is all tied up in a sling ♪
18:19 ♪ The inventor of the wheel ♪
18:24 Oh, fine, I'd love to meet him.
18:27 Ah, now then, Junior, looks like our boy there.
18:34 Hey, look, no wheels.
18:36 Pops, well, I declare he don't look like an inventor to me.
18:39 Quiet, Junior, just watch and see.
18:42 Say, life was a struggle in the prehistoric age.
18:45 Yes, you'll note, Junior,
18:47 man was in his bare essential state.
18:50 Food was scarce and clothes were few.
18:53 And I see there was a housing shortage, too.
18:59 Ah-ha, now we come to the part where the whole idea gets its start.
19:03 Hey, buddy, wake up.
19:05 Turn around, here's your big chance to be world-renowned.
19:08 But, Pop--
19:10 Sure, draw up that idea.
19:12 That's it, good.
19:14 Study it.
19:16 Is it understood?
19:18 No, uh-uh. What's in a set?
19:20 Why, that's a wheel like the one you've just seen.
19:23 What do I do with it?
19:25 What'll he do with it? Hey, use your bean.