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Donald in Mathmagic Land
Donald in Mathmagic Land
	1988 VHS cover
Directed by	Hamilton Luske; (supervising); Wolfgang Reitherman; Les Clark; Joshua Meador; (sequences)
Written by	Milt Banta; Bill Berg; Heinz Haber
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Clarence Nash; Paul Frees
Narrated by	Paul Frees
Cinematography	Edward Colman
Edited by	Lloyd L. Richardson
Music by	Buddy Baker
Production; company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Film Distribution
Release date	June 26, 1959;
Running time	27:35
Land	Vereinigte Staaten
Sprache	Englisch

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Donald in Mathmagic Land is an American live-action animated featurette produced by Walt Disney Productions and featuring Donald Duck. The short was directed by Hamilton Luske (with Wolfgang Reitherman, Les Clark, and Joshua Meador as sequence directors) and was released on June 26, 1959.^[1] It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 32nd Academy Awards,^[2] and became a widely viewed educational film in American schools of the 1960s and beyond.^[3]

Plot

1: Very Strange

The film begins with Donald Duck, holding a hunting rifle, passing through a doorway to find that he has entered Mathmagic Land. This "mighty strange" fantasy land contains trees with square roots, a stream flowing with numbers, and a walking pencil that plays tic-tac-toe. A geometric bird recites (almost perfectly) the first 15 digits of pi. Donald soon hears the voice of the unseen "True Spirit of Adventure" (Paul Frees), who will guide him on his journey through "the wonderland of mathematics".

2: The Time Of Pythagoras

Donald is initially not interested in exploring Mathmagic Land, believing that math is just for "eggheads". When "Mr. Spirit" suggests a connection between math and music, though, Donald is intrigued. First, Donald discovers the relationships between octaves and string length which develop the musical scale of today. Next, Donald finds himself in ancient Greece, where Pythagoras and his contemporaries are discovering these same relationships. Pythagoras (on the harp), a flute player, and a double bass player hold a "jam session" which Donald joins after a few moments using a vase as a bongo drum. Pythagoras' mathematical discoveries are, as the Spirit explains, the basis of today's music, and that music would not exist without "eggheads". The segment ends with a sequence of live action musicians playing both jazz and classical music and Pythagoras' pals fading away.

3: The Golden Rectangle

After shaking hands with Pythagoras, who then vanishes, Donald finds on his hand a pentagram, the symbol of the secret Pythagorean society. The Spirit then shows Donald how the mysterious golden section appears in the pentagram. Next, the pentagram is shown to contain the pattern for constructing golden rectangles many times over. According to the Spirit, the golden rectangle has influenced both ancient and modern cultures in many ways. Donald then learns how the golden rectangle appears in many ancient buildings, such as the Parthenon and the Notre Dame cathedral. Paintings such as the Mona Lisa and various sculptures such as the Venus de Milo contain several golden rectangles. The use of the golden rectangle is found in modern architecture, such as the United Nations building in New York City. Modern painters have also rediscovered the magic of the golden rectangles.

4: Mathematical Forms In Nature

The Spirit shows Donald how the golden rectangle and pentagram are related to the human body and nature, respectively. The human body contains the "ideal proportions" of the golden section; Donald, overinterpreting the Spirit's advice, tries to make his own body fit such a proportion, but his efforts are to no avail; he ends up "all pent up in a pentagon". The pentagram and pentagon are then shown to be found in many flowers and animals, such as the petunia, the star jasmine, the starfish, the waxflower, and with the help of the inside of a nautilus shell, the Spirit explains that the magic proportions of the golden section are often found in the spirals of nature's designs, quoting Pythagoras: "Everything is arranged according to number and mathematical shape."

5: Mathematics in Games

Donald then learns that mathematics applies not only to nature, architecture, and music, but also to games that are played on geometrical surfaces, including chess, baseball, American football, basketball, hopscotch, and three-cushion billiard. Donald even volunteers the game Tiddlywinks, but the Spirit does not pursue this option. Themes of Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass are scattered throughout the chess scene; Carroll himself was both a writer and a mathematician. The extended billiards scene, which features a non-speaking live actor, shows the calculations involved in the game's "diamond system", and Donald finally learns how to do the calculations, though he ends up making it tough for himself, spectacularly hitting ten cushions in a single shot nonetheless.

6: Mathematical Thinking

The Spirit then asks Donald to play a mental game, but he finds Donald's mind to be too cluttered with "Antiquated Ideas", "Bungling", "False Concepts", "Superstitions", and "Confusion". After some mental house-cleaning, Donald plays with a circle and a triangle in his mind, he spins them to make them respectively into a sphere and a cone, and then he discovers useful inventions such as the wheel, train, magnifying glass, drill, spring, propeller, and telescope. Donald then discovers that pentagrams can be drawn inside each other indefinitely. Therefore, numbers provide an avenue to consider the infinite. The Spirit states that scientific knowledge and technological advances are unlimited, and the key to unlocking the doors of the future is mathematics. By the end of the film, Donald understands and appreciates the value of mathematics. The film closes with a quotation from Galileo Galilei: "Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe."

Cast

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck (voice)
Paul Frees as The True Spirit of Adventure / Narrator (voice), and the Pi creature (voice)
June Foray as the Chess Queen (voice)
Daws Butler as the Chess King (voice)
Roman Yanez as The Billiards Player

Production

The film was directed by Hamilton Luske. Contributors included Disney artists John Hench and Art Riley, voice talent Paul Frees, and scientific expert Heinz Haber, who had worked on the Disney space shows. It was released on a bill with Darby O'Gill and the Little People. In 1959, it was nominated for an Academy Award for (Best Documentary – Short Subjects).^[4] In 1961, two years after its release, it was shown as part of the first program of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color with an introduction by Ludwig Von Drake.

The film was made available to schools and became one of the most popular educational films ever made by Disney. As Walt Disney himself explained: "The cartoon is a good medium to stimulate interest. We have recently explained mathematics in a film and in that way excited public interest in this very important subject."^[5]

Releases

1959 - theatrical release
1961 - Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, episode #8.1: "An Adventure in Color/Mathmagicland" (TV)

Home media

The short was released on November 11, 2008 on Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Four: 1951-1961.^[6]

Additional releases include:

1988 - Walt Disney Mini Classics: Donald in Mathmagic Land (VHS)
2007 - Donald in Mathmagic Land (DVD exclusive to the Disney Movie Club)
2009 - Donald in Mathmagic Land (DVD)

In other media

A comic book adaptation was made, scripted by Don R. Christensen, pencilled by Tony Strobl, and inked by Steve Steere. This version differs in some ways from the original film version, providing a better context for Donald's excursion into Mathmagic Land.^[7]
The Figment comic book miniseries from Marvel Comics has the outcast sound sprite Fye mention Mathmagic Land as one of the other countries in the Realm of Imagination.
The House of Mouse episode "Gone Goofy" features an advertisement for Mathmagic Land at the end.
In the 2023 Ted Lasso episode "Sunflowers", Lasso consumes what he believes to be psychedelic drugs and begins to hallucinate about the geometry of triangles. The style of animated hallucination sequence is visually similar to that of Donald in Mathmagic Land, and Lasso also hears the voice of The True Spirit of Adventure (voiced by Corey Burton) explaining the significance of the triangle.

References

^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
^ "The 32nd Academy Awards (1960) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved May 20, 2019.
^ "Mathematical Treasure: Donald in Mathmagic Land | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
^ "NY Times: Donald in Mathmagic Land". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on April 7, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2019.
^ Smith, Dave (2006). Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia (3 ed.). Disney Editions. p. 198. ISBN 0-7868-4919-3.
^ "The Chronological Donald Volume 4 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
^ Riper, A. Bowdoin Van (2011). Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films. McFarland. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-7864-8475-1. Retrieved 13 May 2018 – via Google Books.

External links

[1] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

[Oscars1960-2] "The 32nd Academy Awards (1960) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved May 20, 2019.

[3] "Mathematical Treasure: Donald in Mathmagic Land | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2022-02-23.

[NY_Times-4] "NY Times: Donald in Mathmagic Land". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on April 7, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2019.

[5] Smith, Dave (2006). Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia (3 ed.). Disney Editions. p. 198. ISBN 0-7868-4919-3.

[6] "The Chronological Donald Volume 4 DVD Review". DVD Dizzy. Retrieved 13 February 2021.

[7] Riper, A. Bowdoin Van (2011). Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films. McFarland. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-7864-8475-1. Retrieved 13 May 2018 – via Google Books.

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-'''''Donald in Mathmagic Land''''' is a 1959 American [[Animation|animated]]-[[live-action]] [[featurette]] produced by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] and featuring [[Donald Duck]]. The short was directed by [[Hamilton Luske]] (with [[Wolfgang Reitherman]], [[Les Clark]], and [[Joshua Meador]] as sequence directors) and was released on June 26, 1959.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/74/mode/2up |pages=74–76}}</ref> It was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)|Best Documentary (Short Subject)]] at the [[32nd Academy Awards]],<ref name="Oscars1960">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960 |title=The 32nd Academy Awards (1960) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 20, 2019 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094204/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/32nd-winners.html |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> and became a widely viewed [[educational film]] in American schools of the 1960s and beyond.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mathematical Treasure: Donald in Mathmagic Land {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-donald-in-mathmagic-land|access-date=2022-02-23|website=www.maa.org}}</ref>
+'''''Donald in Mathmagic Land''''' is an American [[Live-action animated film|live-action animated]] [[featurette]] produced by [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Walt Disney Productions]] and featuring [[Donald Duck]]. The short was directed by [[Hamilton Luske]] (with [[Wolfgang Reitherman]], [[Les Clark]], and [[Joshua Meador]] as sequence directors) and was released on June 26, 1959.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/74/mode/2up |pages=74–76}}</ref> It was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)|Best Documentary (Short Subject)]] at the [[32nd Academy Awards]],<ref name="Oscars1960">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1960 |title=The 32nd Academy Awards (1960) Nominees and Winners |access-date=May 20, 2019 |work=oscars.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706094204/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/32nd-winners.html |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> and became a widely viewed [[educational film]] in American schools of the 1960s and beyond.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mathematical Treasure: Donald in Mathmagic Land {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|url=https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/mathematical-treasure-donald-in-mathmagic-land|access-date=2022-02-23|website=www.maa.org}}</ref>
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 === 3: The Golden Rectangle===
-After shaking hands with Pythagoras, who then vanishes, Donald finds on his hand a [[pentagram]], the symbol of the secret [[Pythagoreanism|Pythagorean society]]. The Spirit then shows Donald how the mysterious [[golden ratio|golden section]] appears in the pentagram. Next, the pentagram is shown to contain the pattern for constructing golden rectangles many times over. According to the Spirit, the [[golden rectangle]] has influenced both ancient and modern cultures in many ways. Donald then learns how the golden rectangle appears in many ancient buildings, such as the [[Parthenon]] and the [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre Dame cathedral]]. Paintings such as the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' and various sculptures such as the [[Venus de Milo]] contain several golden rectangles. The use of the golden rectangle is found in modern architecture, such as the [[United Nations Headquarters|United Nations building]] in [[New York City]]. Modern painters have also rediscovered the magic of the golden rectangles.
+After shaking hands with Pythagoras, who then vanishes, Donald finds on his hand a [[pentagram]], the symbol of the secret [[Pythagoreanism|Pythagorean society]]. The Spirit then shows Donald how the mysterious [[golden ratio|golden section]] appears in the pentagram. Next, the pentagram is shown to contain the pattern for constructing golden rectangles many times over. According to the Spirit, the [[golden rectangle]] has influenced both ancient and modern cultures in many ways. Donald then learns how the golden rectangle appears in many ancient buildings, such as the [[Parthenon]] and the [[Notre-Dame de Paris|Notre Dame cathedral]]. Paintings such as the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' and various sculptures such as the ''[[Venus de Milo]]'' contain several golden rectangles. The use of the golden rectangle is found in modern architecture, such as the [[United Nations Secretariat Building|United Nations building]] in [[New York City]]. Modern painters have also rediscovered the magic of the golden rectangles.
 === 4: Mathematical Forms In Nature===
-The Spirit shows Donald how the golden rectangle and pentagram are related to the human body and nature, respectively.  The human body contains the "ideal proportions" of the golden section; Donald, overinterpreting the Spirit's advice, tries to make his own body fit such a proportion, but his efforts are to no avail; he ends up "all pent up in a [[pentagon]]". The pentagram and pentagon are then shown to be found in many flowers and animals, such as the [[petunia]], the [[Trachelospermum jasminoides|star jasmine]], the [[starfish]], the [[Hoya carnosa|waxflower]], and with the help of the inside of a [[nautilus]] shell, the Spirit explains that the magic proportions of the golden section are often found in the [[spiral]]s of nature's designs, quoting Pythagoras: "Everything is arranged according to number and mathematical shape".
+The Spirit shows Donald how the golden rectangle and pentagram are related to the human body and nature, respectively. The human body contains the "ideal proportions" of the golden section; Donald, overinterpreting the Spirit's advice, tries to make his own body fit such a proportion, but his efforts are to no avail; he ends up "all pent up in a [[pentagon]]". The pentagram and pentagon are then shown to be found in many flowers and animals, such as the [[petunia]], the [[Trachelospermum jasminoides|star jasmine]], the [[starfish]], the [[Hoya carnosa|waxflower]], and with the help of the inside of a [[nautilus]] shell, the Spirit explains that the magic proportions of the golden section are often found in the [[spiral]]s of nature's designs, quoting Pythagoras: "Everything is arranged according to number and mathematical shape."
 === 5: Mathematics in Games===
-Donald then learns that mathematics applies not only to nature, architecture, and music, but also to games that are played on geometrical surfaces, including [[chess]], [[baseball]], [[American football]], [[basketball]], [[hopscotch]], and [[three-cushion billiard]]. Donald even volunteers the game [[Tiddlywinks]], but the Spirit does not pursue this option. Themes of Lewis Carroll's ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' are scattered throughout the chess scene; Carroll himself was both a writer and a [[mathematician]]. The extended [[cue sports|billiards]] scene, which features a non-speaking live actor, shows the calculations involved in the game's "diamond system", and Donald finally learns how to do the calculations, though he ends up making it tough for himself, spectacularly hitting ten cushions in a single shot nonetheless.
+Donald then learns that mathematics applies not only to nature, architecture, and music, but also to games that are played on geometrical surfaces, including [[chess]], [[baseball]], [[American football]], [[basketball]], [[hopscotch]], and [[three-cushion billiard]]. Donald even volunteers the game [[Tiddlywinks]], but the Spirit does not pursue this option. Themes of Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' are scattered throughout the chess scene; Carroll himself was both a writer and a [[mathematician]]. The extended [[cue sports|billiards]] scene, which features a non-speaking live actor, shows the calculations involved in the game's "diamond system", and Donald finally learns how to do the calculations, though he ends up making it tough for himself, spectacularly hitting ten cushions in a single shot nonetheless.
 === 6: Mathematical Thinking===
-The Spirit then asks Donald to play a mental game, but he finds Donald's mind to be too cluttered with "Antiquated Ideas", "Bungling", "False Concepts", "Superstitions", and "Confusion".  After some mental house-cleaning, Donald plays with a [[circle]] and a [[triangle]] in his mind, he spins them to make them respectively into a [[sphere]] and a [[cone]], and then he discovers useful inventions such as the [[wheel]], [[train]], [[magnifying glass]], [[drill]], [[Spring (device)|spring]], [[propeller]], and [[telescope]]. Donald then discovers that pentagrams can be drawn inside each other indefinitely. Therefore, numbers provide an avenue to consider the [[infinity|infinite]]. The Spirit states that scientific knowledge and technological advances are unlimited, and the key to unlocking the doors of the future is mathematics. By the end of the film, Donald understands and appreciates the value of mathematics. The film closes with a quotation from [[Galileo Galilei]]: "Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe".
+The Spirit then asks Donald to play a mental game, but he finds Donald's mind to be too cluttered with "Antiquated Ideas", "Bungling", "False Concepts", "Superstitions", and "Confusion".  After some mental house-cleaning, Donald plays with a [[circle]] and a [[triangle]] in his mind, he spins them to make them respectively into a [[sphere]] and a [[cone]], and then he discovers useful inventions such as the [[wheel]], [[train]], [[magnifying glass]], [[drill]], [[Spring (device)|spring]], [[propeller]], and [[telescope]]. Donald then discovers that pentagrams can be drawn inside each other indefinitely. Therefore, numbers provide an avenue to consider the [[infinity|infinite]]. The Spirit states that scientific knowledge and technological advances are unlimited, and the key to unlocking the doors of the future is mathematics. By the end of the film, Donald understands and appreciates the value of mathematics. The film closes with a quotation from [[Galileo Galilei]]: "Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe."
 ==Cast==
 * [[Clarence Nash]] as [[Donald Duck]] (voice)
 * [[Paul Frees]] as The True Spirit of Adventure / Narrator (voice), and the Pi creature (voice)
-* [[June Foray]] as the Chess Queen (voice)
+* [[June Foray]] as the [[Queen (chess)|Chess Queen]] (voice)
-* [[Daws Butler]] as the Chess King (voice)
+* [[Daws Butler]] as the [[King (chess)|Chess King]] (voice)
 * Roman Yanez as The Billiards Player
 ==Production==
-The film was directed by [[Hamilton Luske]]. Contributors included [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] artists John Hench and Art Riley, voice talent [[Paul Frees]], and scientific expert [[Heinz Haber]], who had worked on the Disney space shows. It was released on a bill with ''[[Darby O'Gill and the Little People]]''. In 1959, it was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for ([[Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)|Best Documentary – Short Subjects]]).<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/67849/Donald-in-Mathmagic-Land/details |title=NY Times: Donald in Mathmagic Land |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120407120116/https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/67849/Donald-in-Mathmagic-Land/details|archive-date=April 7, 2012|url-status=dead |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]] |date=2012 |access-date=January 2, 2019}}</ref> In 1961, two years after its release, it was shown as part of the [[An Adventure in Color/Mathmagicland|first program]] of ''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'' with an introduction by [[Ludwig Von Drake]].
+The film was directed by [[Hamilton Luske]]. Contributors included [[The Walt Disney Company|Disney]] artists John Hench and Art Riley, voice talent [[Paul Frees]], and scientific expert [[Heinz Haber]], who had worked on the Disney space shows. It was released on a bill with ''[[Darby O'Gill and the Little People]]''. In 1959, it was nominated for an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for ([[Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)|Best Documentary – Short Subjects]]).<ref name="NY Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/67849/Donald-in-Mathmagic-Land/details |title=NY Times: Donald in Mathmagic Land |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120407120116/https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/67849/Donald-in-Mathmagic-Land/details|archive-date=April 7, 2012|url-status=dead |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2012 |access-date=January 2, 2019}}</ref> In 1961, two years after its release, it was shown as part of the [[An Adventure in Color/Mathmagicland|first program]] of ''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'' with an introduction by [[Ludwig Von Drake]].
-The film was made available to schools and became one of the most popular [[educational film]]s ever made by Disney. As [[Walt Disney]] himself explained, "The cartoon is a good medium to stimulate interest. We have recently explained mathematics in a film and in that way excited public interest in this very important subject."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Disney A to Z | encyclopedia = The Official Encyclopedia | edition = 3 | pages =198 | publisher =Disney Editions | id =0786849193 }}</ref>
+The film was made available to schools and became one of the most popular [[educational film]]s ever made by Disney. As [[Walt Disney]] himself explained: "The cartoon is a good medium to stimulate interest. We have recently explained mathematics in a film and in that way excited public interest in this very important subject."<ref>{{cite book | author=Smith, Dave | title = Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia | edition = 3 | page =198 | publisher =Disney Editions | isbn=0-7868-4919-3 | year=2006}}</ref>
 ==Releases==
-*1959 – theatrical release
+* 1959 - theatrical release
-*1961 – ''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'', episode #8.1: "[[An Adventure in Color/Mathmagicland]]" (TV)
+* 1961 - ''[[Walt Disney anthology television series|Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color]]'', episode #8.1: "[[An Adventure in Color/Mathmagicland]]" (TV)
 ==Home media==
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 Additional releases include:
-*1988 – ''Walt Disney Mini Classics: Donald in Mathmagic Land'' (VHS)
+* 1988 - ''Walt Disney Mini Classics: Donald in Mathmagic Land'' (VHS)
-*2007 – ''Donald in Mathmagic Land'' (DVD exclusive to the Disney Movie Club)
+* 2007 - ''Donald in Mathmagic Land'' (DVD exclusive to the Disney Movie Club)
-*2009 – ''Donald in Mathmagic Land'' (DVD)
+* 2009 - ''Donald in Mathmagic Land'' (DVD)
 ==In other media==
-* A [[comic book]] adaptation was made, scripted by [[Don R. Christensen]], pencilled by [[Tony Strobl]], and inked by Steve Steere. However, this version differs in some ways from the original film version, providing a better context for Donald's excursion into Mathmagic Land.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1BDUjmppucC&pg=PA120|title=Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films|first=A. Bowdoin Van|last=Riper|date=31 December 2010|publisher=McFarland|access-date=13 May 2018|via=Google Books|page=120|isbn=9780786484751}}</ref>
+* A [[comic book]] adaptation was made, scripted by [[Don R. Christensen]], pencilled by [[Tony Strobl]], and inked by Steve Steere. This version differs in some ways from the original film version, providing a better context for Donald's excursion into Mathmagic Land.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k1BDUjmppucC&pg=PA120|title=Learning from Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney's Edutainment Films|first=A. Bowdoin Van|last=Riper|date=2011|publisher=McFarland|access-date=13 May 2018|via=Google Books|page=120|isbn=978-0-7864-8475-1}}</ref>
+* The ''[[Figment (Disney)|Figment]]'' comic book miniseries from [[Marvel Comics]] has the outcast sound sprite Fye mention Mathmagic Land as one of the other countries in the Realm of Imagination.
 * The ''[[House of Mouse]]'' episode "Gone Goofy" features an advertisement for Mathmagic Land at the end.
+* In the 2023 ''[[Ted Lasso]]'' episode "[[Sunflowers (Ted Lasso)|Sunflowers]]", Lasso consumes what he believes to be psychedelic drugs and begins to hallucinate about the geometry of triangles. The style of animated hallucination sequence is visually similar to that of ''Donald in Mathmagic Land'', and Lasso also hears the voice of The True Spirit of Adventure (voiced by [[Corey Burton]]) explaining the significance of the triangle.
 ==References==
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+* {{AllMovie title|67849|Donald in Mathmagic Land}}
-* {{Amg movie|67849|Donald in Mathmagic Land}}
+* [https://movies.disney.com/donald-in-mathmagic-land ''Donald in Mathmagic Land''] at [[Disney.com]]
-* [https://movies.disney.com/donald-in-mathmagic-land Donald in Mathmagic Land] at [[Disney.com]]
+* {{DisneyAtoZ|donald-in-mathmagic-land-film}}
-{{Donald Duck}}
+{{Donald Duck in animation}}
+{{Alice}}
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+[[Category:1950s American films]]
+[[Category:Baseball animation]]
+[[Category:Basketball animation]]
+[[Category:Disney animated films based on fairy tales]]

v t e Films directed by Hamilton Luske
Eigenschaften	Pinocchio (1940) Fantasia (1940) The Reluctant Dragon (1941) Saludos Amigos (1942) Make Mine Music (1946) Fun and Fancy Free (1947) Melody Time (1948) So Dear to My Heart (1948) Cinderella (1950) Alice in Wonderland (1951) Peter Pan (1953) Lady and the Tramp (1955) One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) Mary Poppins (1964)
Shorts	Mickey's Surprise Party (1939) Food Will Win the War (1942) Ben and Me (1953) Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959) The Litterbug (1961) Scrooge McDuck and Money (1967)

v t e Films directed by Wolfgang Reitherman
Eigenschaften	Sleeping Beauty (1959) One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) The Sword in the Stone (1963) The Jungle Book (1967) The Aristocats (1970) Robin Hood (1973) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) The Rescuers (1977)
Shorts and featurettes	The Truth About Mother Goose (1957) Donald in Mathmagic Land (1959) Goliath II (1960) Aquamania (1961) Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966) Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968)