Donald Duck Puppet

[wes]

I got to thinking the other( a Horrible thing to do) day about my favorite disney character onald Duck and I keep thinking about what a behind the scene thing on the disney channel a while back about the Voice of Donald:Clarence Nash and in the show he carried a Donald Duck full body puppet. I wanted to know where it came from so i google it and found this.

http://ftp.afilm.com/blog/DuckyPantoQuiz.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/Clarence_Nash.jpg

Does any one no more about this puppet i would love to find it, or at least some footage of the puppet

 

[muppetperson]

I got a photo autograph from him not long before he died, and he still had that puppet.

 

[EntropicOrgan]

I'm actually a huge Donald Duck/Clarence Nash fan as well as the Muppets! I have footage on a DVD somewhere of Nash walking around Disneyland with a Donald Duck puppet. I'm not sure where it came from, but it was refreshing to see that my favourite voice artist was also handy with a puppet!

 

[Buck-Beaver]

There was a lot of artistic cross-pollination between animators and puppeteers in Hollywood in the `30s, `40s and `50s. I would not be surprised if the puppet was by Bob Baker who did a lot of work with Disney during that era (he built the original Pinocchio marionette that the Disney animators used as a model).

I'll do some digging on this and see if I can find out for sure who built it.

 

[muppetperson]

You might be able to find something on The Chronological Donald DVD http://www.ultimatedisney.com/donald2.html#c

 

[wes]

that was an awesome puppet! thanks

 

[muppetperson]

I wish Master Replicas would make a replica of it.

 

[wes]

that would be freaking awesome, that would be n the top of my list to buy!

then i would have to learn to do donald voice!

 

[muppetperson]

I have started a support thread on MR's forum for the puppet in the Disney corner for anyone who wants to show their support.

 

[JJandJanice]

That's pretty cool.