Fred Shields
Also Known As: Frederick Hagenstein Shields, Frederick Shields
Biography: In Kansas City, Shields owned a theatre group, The Playmakers, and performed in stage plays. He also worked as a newscaster for WDAF radio. In 1929, he announced the plane flight of Germany's Graf Zeppelin over the U.S. In 1930, he came to Hollywood, CA, with Ger, his wife, Karena, and daughter, Evelyn. He was employed as the Station Manager for KTM Los Angeles. In 1939, he was President of the American Federation of Radio Artists. From 1940 to he 1965, he was the announcer on the Alka Seltzer News, KHJ, Hollywood. He also played Mr. Archer on "Meet Corliss Archer" both on CBS radio and television (Meet Corliss Archer (1951)). - IMDb Mini Biography By: Evelyn Linda Shields Wheeler (daughter)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kansas City - Missouri - USA
Birthday: May 18, 1904
Deathday: June 30, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Three Caballeros
Overview: For Donald's birthday he receives a box with three gifts inside. The gifts, a movie projector, a pop-up book, and a pinata, each take Donald on wild adventures through Mexico and South America.
Genres: Animation Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-21
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Saludos Amigos
Overview: A whimsical blend of live action and animation, "Saludos Amigos" is a colorful kaleidoscope of art, adventure and music set to a toe-tapping samba beat. From high Andes peaks and Argentina's pampas to the sights and sounds of Rio de Janeiro, your international traveling companions are none other than those famous funny friends, Donald Duck and Goofy. They keep things lively as Donald encounters a stubborn llama and "El Gaucho" Goofy tries on the cowboy way of life....South American-style.
Genres: Animation Adventure Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-24
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Food Will Win the War
Overview: World War II propaganda film on the importance of American farming. A morale booster film stressing the abudance of American agricultural output.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-20
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The New Spirit
Overview: Animated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-22
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The Amazon Head Hunters
Overview: The Marquis de Wavrin, a Belgian explorer, spends four years in the Amazon jungle in Ecuador looking for a lost friend who may have fallen victim to headhunters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-12
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Walt Disney Treasures - The Complete Goofy
Overview: This generous collection includes 46 of the 48 shorts that starred Goofy between 1939 and 1961 (but none of the great Mickey-Donald-Goofy films from the mid-'30s). The "How to Ride a Horse" sequence in The Reluctant Dragon (1941) set the pattern for many of these cartoons. An elegant narrator (artist John Ployardt) explains a sport that Goofy attempts to demonstrate. The character that animator Art Babbitt described in a 1935 lecture (quoted in the DVD bonus material) as an easygoing dimbulb gave way to an enthusiastic but spectacularly maladroit figure. One of the funniest entries in the series, "Hockey Homicide," contains several studio in-jokes: dueling stars Icebox Bertino and Fearless Ferguson, and referee Clean-Game Kinney are named for artists Al Bertino, Norm Ferguson, and director Jack Kinney.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-03
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Lake Titicaca
Overview: Donald is visiting South America, where he is first overcome by altitude sickness. He spends some time in the picturesque market. Then he takes a llama up into the mountains, with exciting results.
Genres: Animation Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-24
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Pedro
Overview: Pedro, a small airplane from Chile, engaging in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with near disastrous results.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-19
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El Gaucho Goofy
Overview: American cowboy Goofy gets taken mysteriously to the Argentine pampas to learn the ways of the native gaucho.
Genres: Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-24
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Pluto and the Armadillo
Overview: Mickey and Pluto make a short stopover on a South American flight. Mickey throws Pluto's ball into the jungle, and he chases it but it looks exactly the same as an armadillo that's rolled up into a ball. This, of course, greatly confuses Pluto for a while. But he eventually makes friends with the armadillo. He chases the critter into a cave right behind his ball, and rips the ball apart thinking it's the armadillo, which makes him very sad until the armadillo shows up again.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-02-19
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Voodoo
Overview: In 1925, during the occupation of Haiti, a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant was stationed in charge of the small island of La Gonave. He befriended the natives and was so popular that they named him King Faustin I and installed him as their ruler. He ruled the island for three years, then left and returned to make this documentary.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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The Spirit of '43
Overview: Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.
Genres: Animation War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-07
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The Flying Gauchito
Overview: A brave gaucho lad arms himself with a knife and bolo. He leaves the floor of the pampas and climbs into the mountains looking for prey. In a nest he discovers a flying burro. He captures it and, after several close calls, tames the creature, and he takes it back to town where he enters the burro, with himself on its back, in a horse race. If they win, it means a prize of 1,000 pesos. Can the burro get its act together long enough to fly in a straight line and win? It's the stuff of legends.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-12-21
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The Building of a Tire
Overview: The Building of a Tire is a 1946 Disney animated short film. It was sponsored by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-14
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Victory Vehicles
Overview: Goofy demonstrates a number of crazy vehicles.
Genres: Animation War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-30
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How to Play Baseball
Overview: Goofy shows us the national pastime. After a brief overview, we have a demonstration of the many possible pitches. On to the World Series, where we go through an eventful inning, culminating in a baseball that disintegrates when being hit.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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Contrary Condor
Overview: Donald is trying to collect a condor's egg when the condor returns. He hides inside an empty egg and regrets this when the large, warm mother returns. He regrets it even more when he "hatches" and mama encourages him to fly. And mama proves to be even more protective than Donald would like.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-21
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How to Play Golf
Overview: Goofy shows us, in his inimitable way, the fundamentals of golf, guided as usual by the somewhat sarcastic narrator.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-10
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Tiger Trouble
Overview: Big game hunter Goofy and his trusty elephant search for a tiger to hunt.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-06
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