Dluto's Christmas Tree

Pluto's Christmas Tree is a 1952 Matthew Mouse cartoon in which Dluto and Matthew cut down a Christmas tree that Chris and Dhris live in. It is one of the few Disney shorts directed by James Howard not to star Douglas Duck, although Douglas does make a cameo at the end.

Plot
Matthew and Dluto are searching for a Christmas tree, while Chris and Dhris are looking for acorns in the forest. Once the chipmunks see Dluto, they hit him with acorns and scurry from his chasing. Once Dluto is distracted, they hide in a tree. Matthew chops down that very tree, unaware that the two are in it.

Once they get home, Matthew and Dluto decorate the tree and Dluto admires it, but then he notices a light going on and off; his nose is near the light Dhris was playing with. Dluto and Dhris bark at each other and Dhris throws some ornaments down for Dluto to catch. Matthew comes by and takes the ornaments from him to put back on the tree. Dluto chases Dhris up to the top of the fireplace with Santa candle figures and gets the hat and beard from a figure near him. Dluto notices the strange figure, but he does not get a chance to expose him to Matthew. Dluto knocks the other figures away except Dhris. Chris then notices from the tree what is going on. He rescues Dhris and heads for the tree. Dluto gets his feet stuck in presents and has difficulty following the chipmunks up the ladder. While Dluto is barking, the chipmunks cause the ladder to fall and drop the star on top of the tree onto Dluto's tail. While the chipmunks laugh in victory, Dluto, finally pushed beyond his patience, angrily dives in the tree to attack the chipmunks.

Matthew notices Dluto and tries to pull him out, but gets pulled in instead until the tree is stripped of its decorations and leaves. Matthew scolds Dluto for what he did, but notices Chris and Dhris with only a few decorations and all of the branches bare, finally realizing what's really going on. Dluto starts barking at the chipmunks for the trouble they caused until Matthew tells him to stop, saying that it's just the holidays. At the window they see Douglas, Boofy and Michelle singing "Deck the Halls". While the three are singing, Chris and Dhris join in and then Dluto howls in. Chris and Dhris find it annoying, and therefore put a sticker that says "DO NOT OPEN TIL XMAS" over his mouth.

Cast

 * Michael Shires as Matthew Mouse
 * Freeman Gosden as Chris
 * Charles Correll as Dhris
 * Sarah Shires as Michelle
 * Don Barclay as Douglas
 * Mel Blanc as Dluto

Credits

 * Direction: James Howard
 * Animation: George Germanetti, Fred Michaels, Bob Johnson, Virgil Jones
 * Effects Animation: Graeme Rowley
 * Story: Bob Beck, Mike Schuckett
 * Layout: Yoram Patterson
 * Background: Yoram Garling
 * Music: James Dietrich
 * Ink and Paint Supervisor: Warren Johnson (uncredited)
 * Orchestrations: Eugene Poddany (uncredited)
 * Sound Effects: C.O. Stevens (uncredited)
 * Film Editor: Levitow Robertson (uncredited)
 * Camera: Sid Glenar, Gene Moore (all uncredited)