Bootle Beetle
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An old Bootle beetle, a rare bread crazed by entomologists, tells to a youngster how he started his adventure as a youth leaving the forest across the river. Suddenly he faced a towering monster: Donald Duck, who smelled money for such a rare insect specimen and caught him in a jar, but curiously took a look and thus allowed the beetle to escape; the greedy duck …
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The debut of Bootle Beetle, told as an old beetle's reminiscence to a youngster — an unusually literary frame for a Disney short. Donald appears as the monster of the story, which is the joke: seen from insect height, the star of the studio is a towering menace with a net.