The Plastics Inventor
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Donald is listening to a radio program that tells how to build an airplane from plastic, in a process much like baking a cake, cookies, and making toast. He takes it out for a test flight, still guided by the radio, and it works wonderfully. Until the radio interviewer asks if there’s any problems: yes, it melts when it gets wet. Of course, Donald instantly flies into a rain cloud, and has to battle his plane as it disintegrates.
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Donald builds an aircraft out of plastic by following a radio programme, and discovers mid-flight that his material dissolves in rain. Plastics were a genuinely exciting new consumer technology in 1944 and the short is half comedy, half gentle scepticism about the miracle material everyone was being promised.