Donald goes to visit Donna Duck, but his donkey gives him some trouble.

Other appearances: Donna Duck, Jenny the Burro

Donald visits the "Museum of Modern Marvels".

Other appearances: Robot Butler

Donald is the baggage handler at a train station, where part of the latest shipment is a gluttonous ostrich.

Other appearances: Hortense the Ostrich; cameos by Shirley Temple

Donald tries to control his temper by following the advice of a radio program.

Other appearances: Uncle Smiley (voice), Caterpillar, Hen, Woodpecker

Donald prepares to go to school, but is torn between his angelic side and his evil side whether or not to go.

Other appearances: Donald's Angel, Donald's Devil

Donald receives a visit from his three nephews, who are quite unruly.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie (debut of the characters in animation), Dumbella Duck (mentioned)

Donald is the scoutmaster for his nephews on a camping trip, but his lack of leadership means the kids have to help him out of one problem after another.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[4]

Donald goes to play golf, with his nephews accompanying him as caddies.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

On Friday the 13th, Donald runs into several unlucky obstacles while delivering a package, which contains a bomb.

Other appearances: Gangster Leader (silhouette), Gangster Sidekick (silhouette)

Donald competes with his nephews playing hockey.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Donald is visited by his cousin Gus, who has a hearty appetite.

Other appearances: Gus Goose (debut of the character in animation)

Donald plays pranks on Pluto at the beach. Later they both have problems with ants at their picnic.

Other appearances: Pluto, Ants

Donald leads a sea voyage with his nephews, where they encounter a ferocious shark.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Shark

Donald receives a penguin from the South Pole.

Other appearances: Tootsie the Penguin

Donald tries to get autographs from celebrities in a Hollywood studio.

Other appearances: Security Guard, animated versions of various celebrities

Donald is a police officer who must arrest the criminal Tiny Tom (Pete).

Other appearances: Pete (as "Tiny Tom")

During the construction of a building, Pete hires Donald as his riveter.

Other appearances: Pete, Peter Pig (cameo)

Donald tries to convince Pluto to try his mechanical laundromat for dogs.

Other appearances: Pluto

Donald has a date with Daisy, which is constantly interrupted by his nephews.

Other appearances: Daisy Duck (debut), Huey, Dewey and Louie

Donald and Pluto go sailing, but the day doesn't end as well as they hoped.

Other appearances: Pluto

Donald has a hard time doing activities in the woods during his vacation.

Other appearances: Chipmunks, Brown bear

Donald and Pluto are cleaning windows in a skyscraper, where they end up in trouble with a bee.

Other appearances: Pluto, Spike the Bee (debut as prototype)

Donald and his nephews are the staff at a fire station.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Donald tries to steal food from lumberjack Pete's table. After catching him, Pete forces Donald to work cutting down trees.

Other appearances: Pete

Donald goes into a chicken coop to get the chickens' eggs, but has trouble with the rooster that guards the place.

Other appearances: Rooster, Hens

At a penny arcade, Donald is entertained by various attractions.

Other appearances: Daisy Duck (cameo)

Donald spends the night unable to sleep due to various problems.

Donald catches his nephews swimming on a school day.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[5]

Donald has a farm where he feeds the animals while singing "Old MacDonald Had a Farm".

Other appearances: Farm animals

Donald decides to use his camera to photograph some wildlife, but the animals he finds torment him and hinder his efforts to photograph them.

Other appearances: Forest animals

Donald tries to cook by listening to Old Mother Mallard's radio show.

Other appearances: Old Mother Mallard (voices)

Donald is working as a blacksmith fixing an iron rim in a wagon wheel and putting a horseshoe on the donkey Jenny, having trouble with both.

Other appearances: Jenny the Burro

Animated documentary promoting the timely filing and payment of federal income taxes, showing Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary.^[6] World War II propaganda film, being the second as such starring Donald after Donald's Decision, and the first in the Donald Duck series.

Donald starts a snowball fight with his nephews.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Donald expresses his desire to join the Army Air Forces. During basic training, Sergeant Pete marches Donald's unit through the camp.

Other appearances: Pete, Recruitment Agent, Team of Doctors

Notes: Third World War II-themed short starring Donald, and the first in the "Donald in the Army" series.

Donald has a garden full of melons, which is invaded by a hungry gopher.

Other appearances: Gopher

Donald is digging his gold mine, clumsily doing it, which is great fun for his donkey.

Other appearances: Jenny the Burro

Private Donald gets into trouble when he does his duty too well by painting camouflage with experimental paint that makes everything painted invisible.

Other appearances: Pete, The General

Notes: Fourth World War II-themed short starring Donald, and second in the "Donald in the Army" series.

Private Donald finally gets a chance to fly in the Air Force, but ends up afraid to go parachuting.

Other appearances: Pete

Notes: Fifth World War II-themed short starring Donald, and the third in the "Donald in the Army" series.

Donald works as a bellboy at a hotel, where after Pete and his son arrive at the hotel, the boy doesn't stop causing trouble.

Other appearances: Pete, Pete Junior (debut), Hotel manager

Donald has a nightmare in which he lives in Germany as a slave under the Nazi regime.

Notes: Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film,^[7] and the only Donald Duck film to receive the honor. Anti-Nazi propaganda film, being the sixth World War II-themed short starring Donald.

Documentary in which Donald deals with income taxes and his benefit to the American war effort.

Notes: Propaganda film of the World War II, being the seventh short film starring Donald with this theme. The representation of "good luck" in the story is a duck similar to Scrooge McDuck (being an old duck in Scottish attire), who would debut years later in a comic by Carl Barks, the short film's screenwriter, and may be an anticipated prototype of said character.

While driving his car, Donald has a flat tire and changing it isn't easy.

As Donald looks at the "used" planes for sale by Ben Buzzard, he takes one of the wrecked planes out for a test drive.

Other appearances: Ben Buzzard

Private Donald goes through difficult times during the training march, and later setting up his tent.

Notes: Eighth World War II-themed short starring Donald, and fourth in the "Donald in the Army" series.

Private Donald is caught sneaking out of camp without permission and Sergeant Pete chases after him to teach him a lesson.

Other appearances: Pete

Notes: Ninth World War II-themed short starring Donald, and fifth in the "Donald in the Army" series.

During World War II, Donald is in charge of a listening post. When he mistakes a bee for an enemy plane, he calls on his nephews to fight this threat.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Spike the Bee

Notes: Tenth World War II-themed short film starring Donald, unlike others without being propaganda or a story of Donald in the army.

During the night, Pete annoys the gods Jupiter and Vulcan (represented as ducks), as well as his neighbor Donald, with his late-night trombone sessions. The gods decide to give Donald powers to teach Pete a lesson.

Other appearances: Pete, Jupiter, Vulcan

Ajax, the killer gorilla, had escaped from the zoo, and haunts Donald and his nephews after sneaking into their home.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Ajax the Gorilla, Radio Host (voice)

Donald, practicing as an ornithologist, is trying to collect a condor egg. When the Mother Condor returns, she mistakes him for her son.

Other appearances: Mother Condor, Baby Condor, Narrator (voice)

Donald is ordered to destroy a Japanese airfield.

Notes: Eleventh and final World War II-themed short starring Donald, and the sixth and final in the "Donald in the Army" series.

Donald melts down plastic to build a functional homemade airplane, following the instructions of Professor Butterfield on the radio.

Other appearances: Professor Butterfield (voice)

When Donald's plans to play golf on his day off are ruined by rain, he starts reading a medical book, which makes him think he may have the symptoms he reads about, and his nephews take advantage of his hypochondria to make him pranks.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Donald works wrapping gifts in a store, where he is constantly controlled by his boss, who speaks to him through a speaker pipe.

Other appearances: Donald's Boss (voice)

Donald is given some hypnotic glasses and decides to test them on Pluto. Using the glasses, he convinces Pluto that he is different animals.

Other appearances: Pluto, Rooster, Chickens

Donald steals the money from his nephews' piggy bank for his date with Daisy and is soon plagued by remorse.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Daisy Duck, Narrator (voice)

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[8]

Donald's imagination, influenced by scary stories on the radio and in books, leads him to a criminal world in his imagination, where he becomes involved in a jewel robbery.

Other appearances: Bookseller, Dopey Davis, Agent Paddy/H. U. Hennessy, Pauline, Leslie J. Clark, J. Harold King; cameo of Ajax the Gorilla

Daisy is fed up with Donald's outbursts of anger, so he uses a machine to help him control himself.

Other appearances: Daisy Duck

Donald is a forest ranger, assigned to protect an old sequoia from a pair of beavers.

Other appearances: The Beavers, Donald's Boss (voice)

When Daisy wants Donald to change his personality, he hires a double to make it look like he's changed for the better, but the double soon invades Donald's territory.

Other appearances: Daisy Duck, Dapper Duck

Donald repaints his car, but has trouble with a bird that constantly makes the car dirty.

Other appearances: The bird

After reading a letter from Daisy asking him to make fur coats for her, Donald goes bear hunting. He tries to capture a little bear, but has trouble with the mother bear.

Other appearances: Mother Bear, Little Bear

Donald is a lighthouse keeper, whose light shines on a sleeping pelican, who gets angry and goes into the lighthouse to try to put out the light, which leads to a constant fight between Donald and him.

Other appearances: Marblehead the Pelican

Donald runs a shooting gallery at the carnival. When his nephews try their luck, it turns out that Donald does not stop cheating the game. Having been deceived, they also try to deceive his uncle.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Notes: This is the first short film to use the "Donald Duck Theme Song" in the intro.

Donald sleepwalks to Daisy's house, who tries to prevent him from having an accident walking across town.

Other appearances: Daisy Duck

Donald tries to take some pictures of the birds in the South African jungle, but all his attempts to photograph them are ruined by the "clown of the jungle", the Aracuan Bird.

Other appearances: Aracuan Bird

After being hit by a flower pot, Donald is convinced that he is a great singer and sings beautifully, which leads to fame, but he doesn't recognize Daisy.

Other appearances: Daisy Duck, Psychologist

A rare breed of insect, the Bootle Beetle, tells a young beetle the story of how, in his youth, Donald Duck tried to capture him.

Other appearances: Bootle Beetle (debut), Young Beetle (debut)

Unable to stay in a motel overnight, Donald sleeps in the wild, having trouble with his air mattress.

Other appearances: Motel Owner

Donald cuts down a tree to get firewood, unaware that the chipmunks Chip and Dale live there, and they try to get their home back by infiltrating Donald's house.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale (debut in a short film from the Donald Duck series, and debut under their names)

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[9]

Donald's sleep is interrupted by his constantly dripping kitchen faucet.

Donald wants to adopt a baby, and ends up adopting a kangaroo named Joey. Although Donald is happy at first, taking care of Joey is not so easy.

Other appearances: Joey the Kangaroo, Adoption Bureau

Donald buys some voice pills, which allow him to end up speaking properly without his usual squawking.

Other appearances: Daisy Duck, Burly Guy, Cow

Donald is put on trial after having problems with a restaurant waiter.

Other appearances: Lawyer, Judge, Monsieur Pierre

As Donald decorates his house, he ends up in a confrontation with Spike the Bee.

Other appearances: Spike the Bee (character's debut with his permanent appearance)

Donald cooks dinner for himself and his nephews, but sends them to their room without dinner because they haven't washed up after playing in the mud.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Chip and Dale try to steal the pancakes that Donald has cooked.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Donald prepares to eat at a picnic in the wild, where ants try to steal his food.

Other appearances: Ants

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[10]

Huey, Dewey and Louie want to take the money they've saved to buy their Uncle Donald a present for his birthday, but Donald, unaware of their intentions, tries to stop them so they save the money for the future.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Bootle Beetle tells audiences how he and Donald had to survive after being shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Other appearances: Bootle Beetle (as "Mac")

Chip and Dale must store acorns in their tree before winter comes. When they see Donald planting acorns in the woods, the chipmunks try to steal them.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Donald tries to follow Spike the Bee to find out where he stores his honey.

Other appearances: Spike the Bee

Donald runs a nut butter stand in the woods. Upon discovering it, Chip and Dale try to steal his jars.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Bootle Beetle tells the young beetle how in his youth he infiltrated Donald's garden, which began to persecute him constantly to exterminate him.

Other appearances: Bootle Beetle, Young Beetle

Spike the Bee listens to classical music on the radio that Donald has in his backyard, but when Donald arrives, he changes the station to listen to the baseball game. Both start a fight in which they constantly change the radio station to listen to what they want.

Other appearances: Spike the Bee

Chip and Dale infiltrate Donald's house, where the three end up using various toys for a battle.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[11] Also known as "Christmas Capers" in some reissues.^[12]

Huey, Dewey and Louie dress up as mountain lions to scare Donald. Donald is upset after discovering them, but when a real lion appears, Donald thinks it's another prank by his nephews again.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Louie the Mountain Lion (debut)

In the 1890s, Donald is happily riding his bicycle to Daisy's, but on the way, Chip and Dale throw him into a lot of trouble.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale, Daisy Duck; cameos of Goofy, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse

Louie the lion and his son try to steal the fish that Donald has caught.

Other appearances: Louie the Mountain Lion, Little Louie

Donald is on vacation with his trailer parked by the lake, but his peace of mind is soon interrupted by Chip and Dale.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Spike the Bee happily goes to the beach, but Donald ends up being quite annoying to him.

Other appearances: Spike the Bee, Sharks

Donald cuts the branches of the tree where Chip and Dale are.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Donald is on vacation at a tourist ranch. After all the beautiful women have picked out the best horses, Donald ends up with Rover Boy, a horse that is disliked by Donald.

Other appearances: Rover Boy

Chip and Dale steal the popcorn that Donald has made.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Dale gets into Donald's plane and pilots it through a series of twists and turns, with Donald hanging by the tail.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Donald, without knowing it, has the winning number from a contest where he won a car, and his nephews are going to claim it as a surprise for their uncle.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie

Donald has a model of a train and a city in his garden. He decides to move a tree in his path that doesn't match the scale of the model, not realizing that it is Chip and Dale's home.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Donald sees bees in his garden and follows them to the hive for honey. The bee guarding the hive won't let him through, so Donald dresses up as a bee.

Other appearances: Bee Guard

Donald is a farmer of apples, which have been nibbled by Chip and Dale.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

An old Spiker recounts how he and Donald were partners in the past, holding various jobs thanks to the use of Spike's stinger.

Other appearances: Spike the Bee, Spike's Wife

Donald spills some sugar on his sidewalk, and soon the ants have complete control of his house.

Other appearances: Ants

On Halloween night, Donald isn't willing to give his nephews candy, so Witch Hazel offers her help to teach Donald a lesson.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Witch Hazel, Beelzebub, Ghosts

Donald pretends to have become a baby by drinking from a fountain of youth to play a prank on his nephews.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Crocodile, Baby Crocodiles

After moving into his new house, Donald begins to have problems with his new neighbor, Pete, who turns out to be quite annoying.

Other appearances: Pete, Muncey

Humphrey the Bear hides in Donald's cabin, pretending to be the bearskin rug.

Other appearances: Humphrey the Bear (character's debut in a short film from the Donald Duck series)

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[13]

Chip and Dale try to steal Dolores the Elephant's peanuts at the zoo, and Donald, her keeper, tries to stop them.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale, Dolores the Elephant; cameos of Humphrey the Bear and Salty the Seal

Donald confronts boxer Peewee Pete in a carnival ring.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Pete (as "Peewee Pete")

Donald's nephews play instead of chopping wood. A little teacher named "Child Psychologist" appears as Donald's conscience telling him to use the game as reinforcement for the children to do their homework, something that doesn't favor Donald when he mistakes three cannibals for his nephews.

Other appearances: Huey, Dewey and Louie, Child Psychologist, Pygmy Cannibals

Donald recounts in his diary his love story with Daisy.

Other appearances: Daisy Duck, Daisy's Brothers (played by Huey, Dewey and Louie), Daisy's Mother, Daisy's Father

Donald drives a steam shovel with which he tries to cut down Chip 'n' Dale's tree, who mistake the steam shovel for a dragon.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Donald Duck arrives at Brownstone National Park, where Humphrey tries to get Donald's ham.

Other appearances: Humphrey the Bear, J. Audubon Woodlore (debut), Brownstone Bears

Donald Duck has a peanut cart in a park, where a flying squirrel ends up in a battle with him for the peanuts.

Other appearances: The Flying Squirrel

Donald visits the Grand Canyon, where he is constantly berated by J. Audubon Woodlore for breaking the rules of the place.

Other appearances: J. Audubon Woodlore, Louie the Mountain Lion

Notes: First Donald Duck cartoon filmed in CinemaScope.

Donald, possessed by the spirit of his grandfather, a pioneer hunter, decides to participate in the hunting season.

Other appearances: Donald's grandfather; cameo of Bambi and his mother

Notes: Nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.^[14]

Humphrey is thrown out of the cave by the other bears due to his snoring. Seeking refuge, he ends up at Donald's house.

Other appearances: Humphrey the Bear, Brownstone Bears

Donald is a beekeeper, and Humphrey the Bear tries to steal his honey.

Other appearances: Humphrey the Bear, J. Audubon Woodlore, Brownstone Bears; cameo of Spike the Bee in the title screen

Donald is a lumberjack, but the tree he has to chop down turns out to be Chip and Dale's home.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Chip and Dale take Donald's model ship to sail to an island where there is a tree with acorns on it.

Other appearances: Chip 'n' Dale

Donald is used as an example of various types of litterbugs.

Other appearances: Narrator (voice); cameo of Huey, Dewey and Louie