The Old Army Game
Private Donald Duck has snuck off base for some unauthorized R&R. But his clever ruse (a dummy and a sound effects record) don’t fool Sergeant Pete, who’s waiting for him when he sneaks back in. Donald hides in one of three boxes and plays the shell game for a while, until Pete throws the box with Donald along the top of a sharp fence, sawing it in half. Donald lands in a hole, and both he and Pete think he’s been sawed in half, for a while. Donald discovers he’s OK, but his joy is shortlived when Pete gives chase (a chase slowed considerably by the 35 MPH national speed limit).
Donald sneaking back onto base past Sergeant Pete. The service comedies were popular with servicemen themselves, and their target is always the sergeant rather than the enemy — which is why they have aged so much better than the propaganda shorts made in the same years.
A wartime service comedy; the climax involves Donald believing he has been cut in half.