Sea Scouts (was Re: DCML Digest, Vol 55, Issue 23)

[Jonathan Williams]

In the 1939 cartoon, the nephews aren't identified as being Junior 
Woodchucks.  They are simply on a sailing trip with Donald, though if I 
remember the cartoon correctly, the context does seem to indicate that 
they are doing this as a part of some sort of scouting organization or 
activity.  IIRC, the Junior Woodchucks weren't created until much later 
in the Barks comics.  As far as I know, the Junior Woodchucks did not 
appear in animated cartoons until DuckTales in the 1980s (at least in 
the US).

As someone who grew up in the US and spent part of his childhood both 
scouting and reading Duck comics, I would say that there is no question 
that the Junior Woodchucks/Chickadees would be considered scouts here.  
The similarities between the real life organizations and the ones in the 
comics are so strong that it had never occurred to me that anyone might 
consider JW/C anything but a good-natured parody of scouting.

-Jonathan

Jonathan Williams
jonvw at jonvw.com

jyri lehtinen wrote:
> In the article "Scouting in popular culture" in
> wikipedia  there´s a line: # Sea Scouts (1939) US;
> Donald Duck goes to sea with the Junior Woodchucks.
>
> Here's the imdb site
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031905/
>
> So we're/are the boys considered scouts in te US as
> well?
>
> The same article also tells that that in Brazil JW ar
> Junior scouts. Maybe we could list somewhere online
> the countrys where they are considered scouts.
>
> Jyri
>
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