Beach Picnic (film)

Donald Duck is at the beach singing happily, having a sea bathing and a picnic. After preparing the food, he tries to ride on a rubber horse named Seabiscuit, but gets repeatedly bounced off, annoying him.

Donald then spots Pluto sleeping soundly on the shore, and decides to prank him by pushing Seabiscuit near him and mimicking a horse's whinnying. The mesmerized Pluto tries to chase Seabiscuit around some rocky reefs, but he soon gets repeatedly frightened by the horse bumping him from behind.

Pluto then frantically tries to press Seabiscuit into the water, to no avail. Getting angry, Pluto bites on the rubber horse's muzzle, accidentally causing its inflation nozzle to pop open, and the air inside to be sucked in his own belly. As the rubber horse goes completely flat, Pluto is sent flying in the air like a deflating balloon and crashes into a shipwreck on the shore.

The screen cuts to another scene. Some of the ants unfortunately saw the food, they called for their partners to come and then the numerous ants swarmed toward the picnic foods and carried them around. Donald saw the ants and frantically chased them away. Donald angrily ranted at those ants, and then he decided to put out infinite flypaper to let the ants stick on it to get rid of them.

An ant secretly tried to carried away a piece of cake. Pluto spotted it and gobbled it up, but get frightened by the ant, Pluto smelled the ant curiously and followed the ant while the ant tried to escape, in the meantime his buttock became loose. While following the ant, Donald had finished setting the flypaper, he saw the ant and threw a flypaper to the ant, hoping to stick the ant on it. The ant wisely goes beneath the flypaper. But Pluto clumsily get stuck with the flypaper and his nose gets stuck on it, and then the paw, the back, the side, the buttock (similar to the moves in Playful Pluto) with Pluto unsuccessfully removing the flypaper. Donald laughed hysterically, but his laugh faded when Pluto accidentally flew backward and letting the flypaper got stick with his buttock.

Donald ranted angrily at Pluto and struggled to free himself. Pluto, felt enraged by Donald's abusive language, run around and swung Donald in circles frantically, and tossed Donald with the flypaper and let out a loud howl, Donald squawked in surprise, and then he flew toward the picnic food and rolled over the infinite flypaper and got stuck with all the flypaper, wrecking his hat and the picnic food and only his head can be seen, while the rest of his body is stick by the flypaper.

Donald looked shocked and continued hollered and twisted, trying to get free of numerous flypaper around his body, and Pluto, with an unexpected joy, jumped onto him and licked Donald's face happily and Donald squawked angrily at Pluto, while Pluto enjoy his licking, he let the flypaper stick Donald's face.

The film ended with Donald getting his comeuppance and his body completely gets wrapped by the flypaper. Donald squawked in rage, feeling suffocated, as Pluto happily licking him.

• Clarence Nash as Donald Duck
• Lee Millar as Pluto[2]

The short can be found on "The Chronological Donald Volume 1" disc 1.

The short can be found on "The Complete Pluto Volume 1" disc 1.

Runtime 8 min

Sound Mix Mono

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1

Negative Format 35 mm

Cinematographic Process Spherical

Printed Film Format 35 mm

The running gag of Pluto getting stuck in the flypaper from Playful Pluto is reused in this short. The other running gag of Pluto licking Donald from Donald and Pluto was also reused in this short. The relation of Donald and Pluto is unknown for they rarely get paired on screen.[3]

• The Eyes Have It (film)
• Pluto (Disney)
• Window Cleaners
• Donald and Pluto

• Beach Picnic at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• Beach Picnic on IMDb
• Beach Picnic at the TCM Movie Database