Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959)

Donald Duck: [referring to a ballerina being measured with the golden rectangles] Well, well, well. This is mathematics? I gotta have me some of that!
[he runs up to the model and breaks the rectangles apart]
The True Spirit of Adventure: Ah-ah-ah, Donald!
Donald Duck: Let me try it!
[he picks up a small rectangle]
The True Spirit of Adventure: No, no, no!
Donald Duck: Ideal proportions.
The True Spirit of Adventure: Not quite.
[Donald tosses away the rectangle and picks up a larger one]
The True Spirit of Adventure: Uh-uh. No, I'm afraid not.
[Donald tries to fit himself inside the rectangle]
The True Spirit of Adventure: Well, we can't all be mathematically perfect.
Donald Duck: Oh, yeah?
[Donald squeezes himself into the rectangle, and he successfully gets inside taking up the shape of a pentagon]
Donald Duck: There, I knew I could do it!
The True Spirit of Adventure: Now that you're all bent up in a pentagon, let's see how nature uses the same mathematical form.
[various forms in nature with this shape are shown]
The True Spirit of Adventure: The petunia, the star jasmine, the starfish, the wax flower. There are literally thousands of members in good standing. In nature, it's the Pythagorean idea of the star. All nature's works have a mathematical logic, and her patterns are limitless.

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Donald Duck: [calling out] Hello!
The True Spirit of Adventure: Hello Donald.
Donald Duck: That's me! Where am I?
The True Spirit of Adventure: Mathmagic Land.
Donald Duck: Mathmagic Land? Never heard of it.
The True Spirit of Adventure: It's the land of great adventure.
Donald Duck: Well, who are you?
The True Spirit of Adventure: I'm a spirit. The True Spirit of Adventure.
Donald Duck: That's for me! What's next?
The True Spirit of Adventure: A journey through the wonderlands of Mathematics.
Donald Duck: Mathematics! That's for eggheads!
The True Spirit of Adventure: Eggheads? Now hold on Donald. You like music, don't you?
Donald Duck: Yeah.
The True Spirit of Adventure: Well, without *eggheads*, there would be no music.

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[as the Pytagoreans play music]
Donald Duck: What's going on?
The True Spirit of Adventure: Shh, it's a jam session.
Donald Duck: Gimme something with a beat.
The True Spirit of Adventure: Shh!
[Donald plays a urn like a bongo drum; the Pytagoreans play along]

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This was the first Disney cartoon ever televised in color, in 1961, as the first episode of "The Wonderful World of Color" (NBC's new title for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color when it switched from ABC-TV to that network).
Originally released on a bill with Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
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