The clip comes from The Spirit of '43, a Walt Disney short released on 7 January 1943 and made for the United States Treasury to encourage Americans to pay taxes to support the war effort. Donald Duck begins the film happily receiving his pay before the story splits his good taxpayer side against his spendthrift side. Because the short is a United States government work, it circulated widely in the public domain online. Editors now pair its whistle with clips like Here Comes The Money for payday jokes.