Donald in Mathmagicland

[Donald Duck 12]

I borrowed this cartoon from my math teacher this weekend. It is one of Donald's more famous apperances, so I thought I should watch it. Hadn't seen anything with the Duck in it recently either. I was fairly unimpressed though. The animation looked good, I just really enjoyed the style used. And Clarence Nash did a good job voicing (of course!). But that was about it. Donald was completly mischaracterized, no tantrams or random antics. Mathmagicland was a thrown away concept, I was hoping for another Wonderland (there was a few spoofs of Wonderland there actually). And I didn't even feel like it was educational. Still, it somehow did feel like a classic. Thoughts?

[DarthGonzo]

Interestingly, I'd rather watch a dud of a Donald cartoon than most of their other character driven shorts. I dunno why.:donald:

[Crash]

...I guess its just a lot cooler if you're 8. :shrug:

My family still has a VHS copy of it. We don't watch it much, but we, and some family friends, all have pretty fond memories of it. (Mmm...Sign of the pentagram on the hand...) As for it feeling like an educational video... I'd consider that THE educational video--the archtype that all others aspire to be. Maybe just because it's the earliest I remember but... It was well done. In an entertaining way, and in a way that didn't harp on the same topic until the viewer got bored, it showed kids the suprising ways that mathatics were applied. (Mmmm... Music... Break out those eukaleles and have fun, kids!)

Have they released this on DVD? They should...

[Fan of Sponge]

I've seen the special before. It's quite interesting to see how math is applied in everyday life especially these days with all the new technology. Donald Duck did a great job in going through some of the motions in Mathmagicland.

[Dee]

Math is not my friend.

Unfortunately--- no matter how much of a cartoon they do, it cannot make math my friend.

it was okay--- must have seen it in the 4th and 8th grades.

['Stute Fish]

My sister and I loved Mathemagic Land when we were in elementary! We wore the tape out for a few days after first getting it, then watched it every few months for a couple years after that. The aesthetic applications, the billiards table, and the Pythagoras/music stuff really interested us back then (though half the time I just wanted to see Donald start rockin' out on the drum). I had outgrown it by the time a teacher actually showed it in a class (around jr. high or so), but it still made me happily nostalgic. So I remember kinda wanting to smack the kids who weren't paying attention. Appreciate the Golden Ratio more, dagnabit!

Uh, anyway, I guess it worked for me. Definitely for a youngish kid, though, and really only for introducing concepts.

[Dudley]

Have it on video somewhere, it won an Oscar for best animated short of that year.

The most recent I watched it was in 8th grade Algebra. People thought I was crazy for having it on video.

[Ishtar]

I taped this special off Disney back when they had Vault Disney. It was included in the first episode of The Wonderful World Of Color. It's funny how the part about color before the Mathmagicland short in that episode is pretty much a commercial for color TV. I still watch it once in a while.

[Donald Duck 12]

I honestly can't say I enjoyed it, but it just feels like a classic. It just plain does!