Ben Sharpsteen — Director (28)
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Mickey's Fire Brigade (1935)
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Ben Sharpsteen actor: Walt Disney / Clarence Nash …
other title: Mickys Löschzug / Mickey Pompier …
Mickey, Donald and Goofy are a fire department. As you might expect, their attempts at fighting a boardinghouse fire are not particularly effective. They hear Clarabelle singing in the bathtub and rescue her, tub and all, against her will (she won't believe there's a fire).
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Mickey's Circus (1936)
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Ben Sharpsteen actor: Walt Disney / Marcellite Garner …
other title: 米奇的马戏团 / Flying Trapeze …
Mickey is ringmaster of a circus for orphans. Donald has a trained sea lion act, and does a bit of juggling himself. Mostly, though, he fights with a baby sea lion who keeps stealing both the fish and the show. Donald then finds himself and Mickey in an unrehearsed high wire act, which kicks into high gear when one of the orphans electrifies the wire. They end by doing a high dive into the seals' tank.
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Pluto's Quin-puplets (1937)
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other title: Plutos freche Fünflinge / Les Quintuplés de Pluto …
Pluto wants to chase the sausage man, but Fifi convinces him to look after their five rambunctious puppies instead. The puppies end up in the basement, where they tangle with a compressed air tank, paint, a jug of hooch, and other hazards. Fifi returns and finds a drunk Pluto, paint on everyone, and gets very angry.
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Orphan's Picnic (1936)
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Ben Sharpsteen actor: Walt Disney / Clarence Nash
other title: ドナルドダックの遠足騒動 / Picknick mit Kindern …
Mickey and Donald take a truckload of mouse boys on a picnic. The boys delight in tormenting Donald, first by filching the picnic food, then giving him a flower with a bee inside (Donald eventually gets the whole hive after him), and finally a sandwich with another bee in it.
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Two-Gun Mickey (1934)
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宾·沙普斯坦 actor: Billy Bletcher / 沃尔特·迪斯尼 …
other title: Micky im Wilden Westen / Mickey tireur d'élite …
Minnie rides into town and takes a large sack of money out of the bank. Pegleg Pete gathers his gang to take it from her, and they chase her out of town. Lonesome cowboy Mickey, who met Minnie earlier and was told she could take care of herself, sees this chase unfolding from his high perch, and rides down to save the day.
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Moving Day (1936)
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宾·沙普斯坦 actor: Billy Bletcher / 克拉伦斯·纳什 …
other title: 搬家日 / Umzugstag …
Donald and Mickey are overdue on their rent, so the sheriff is preparing to evict them and sell their belongings. Goofy the ice-man comes by and helps them move out before the sale, but their piano doesn't want to stay on his truck. Meanwhile, Donald has a fight with a plunger and a fishbowl after removing a heater from the gas line.
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Water Birds (1952)
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宾·沙普斯坦 actor: 温斯顿·希布勒
other title: 水鸟 / 물새 …
Water Birds is a 1952 short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen. The film delves into the still waters of lagoons and marshes to the wild blue wilderness of the vast oceans, to experience the beauty and variety of their majestic birds, each perfectly designed for its habitat. It won the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.
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The Worm Turns (1937)
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Ben Sharpsteen actor: Walt Disney
other title: 神奇力量 / Der Windewurm …
Mad scientist Mickey has just brewed up a potion; to test it out, he squirts it on a fly that's been trapped by a spider, a (regular) mouse being harassed by a cat, then the cat when Pluto goes after it, and Pluto when dogcatcher Pegleg Pete goes after him. Each of the underdogs turns against his tormentor.
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Don Donald (1937)
Don Donald
Ben Sharpsteen actor: Clarence Nash
other title: 堂·唐纳德 / Donald, der Caballero …
Donald is courting Daisy (called Donna, here in her first appearance) Duck in Mexico. He arrives on a burro, which doesn't get along at all well with her; she convinces him to buy a car. They head through the desert, but the car breaks down, and throws Donald out, then takes off on its own with Daisy trapped inside the rumble seat. The car hits a rock, throwing Daisy into a mud puddle, to Donald's excessive amusement. Daisy pulls a unicycle from her purse, and rides off.
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Polar Trappers (1938)
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Ben Sharpsteen actor: 品托·考维格 / Clarence Nash
other title: 极地捕手 / Polar trappers …
Donald and Goofy are trappers in the frozen south (Antarctica) with different approaches. Donald sees a penguin and dresses as one to lure her to the chopping block; Goofy baits a trap with fish (then acts like a walrus to capture one that steals his bait bucket).
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Donald and Pluto (1936)
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宾·沙普斯坦 actor: 品托·考维格 / 克拉伦斯·纳什
other title: 唐老鸭和布鲁托 / 唐纳德和布鲁托
在今天的故事里，鲁莽而自信的唐老鸭是一个水管修理工。此时他正在一处地下室内修理锅炉房的管道，他手里拿着一个马蹄形的磁铁，有了磁铁的帮助，站在高空作业的唐老鸭可以随时把包包里的工具吸上来，非常的方便。这边厢他正努力工作，那边傻乎乎的普鲁托正盯着盘子里的骨头垂涎欲滴。阴差阳错，仿佛拥有魔力的磁铁引起普鲁托的注意，更为倒霉的是磁铁钻进了他的肚子。惹出乱子的大傻狗被唐老鸭赶出了地下室，然而磁力极为强大的磁铁却给这个家里所有的金属设施赋予了生命一般。 普鲁托战战兢兢，杯弓蛇影，不仅把家里弄得一团糟，还殃及了正努力工作的唐老鸭……
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Boat Builders (1938)
Boat Builders
Ben Sharpsteen actor: Pinto Colvig / Walt Disney …
other title: 造船记 / 造船工人 …
Mickey buys a boat kit, and enlists Goofy and Donald to help assemble it. The plans say, "so simple a child could do it", so of course, they have their share of troubles. But before long, they're ready to launch the Queen Minnie, with appropriate fanfare, at which time, all the collapsible parts collapse.
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On Ice (1935)
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宾·沙普斯坦 actor: 品托·考维格 / 华特·迪士尼 …
other title: 冰上曲 / ミッキーのアイス・スケート …
Mickey shows off his ice-skating skills to Minnie; Goofy does some unconventional ice fishing; Donald straps skates to Pluto and laughs at his attempts to skate. Donald gets strapped to a kite and is about to be swept over a waterfall when Mickey pulls off an heroic rescue.