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Three Little Pigs
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1933 short animated film directed by Burt Gillett
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6.9The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But when the wolf comes around and blows their houses down (after trickery like dressing as a foundling sheep fails), they run to their brother's house. And throughout, they sing the classic song, "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?".
Cast
- Billy Bletcher as Big Bad Wolf (voice)
- Pinto Colvig as Practical Pig (voice)
- Dorothy Compton as Fiddler Pig (voice)
- Mary Moder as Fifer Pig (voice)
Themes
- pig
- cartoon
- short film
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Burt Gillett
- Based on
- The Three Little Pigs
- Produced by
- Walt Disney
- Starring
- Pinto Colvig Billy Bletcher Mary Moder Dorothy Compton
- Music by
- Frank Churchill
- Animation by
- Fred Moore , Jack King , Dick Lundy , Norm Ferguson , Art Babbitt
- Color process
- Technicolor
- Production company
- Walt Disney Productions
- Distributed by
- United Artists
- Release date
- May 25, 1933 ( 1933-05-25 )
- Running time
- 8 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $22,000
- Box office
- $250,000
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- musical
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Series
- Silly Symphony
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Director
- Burt Gillett
- Screenwriter
- Pinto Colvig
- Voice actor
- Billy Bletcher
- Composer
- Frank Churchill
- Producer
- Walt Disney
- Production company
- Q1047410
- Duration
- 8
- FilmAffinity ID
- 168914
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Hank Porter - New Tales from Old Mother Goose, Good Housekeeping cartoon illustration, April 1944 Mixed media on board 20 x 12.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- title
- Three Little Pigs
- publication date
- 1933-05-27
- color
- black-and-white
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
- distributed by
- Disney+
- characters
- Big Bad Wolf
- capital cost
- 15720
- box office
- 250000
- theme music
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
- fabrication method
- traditional animation
- Commons category
- Three Little Pigs (film)
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Encyclopedic overview
Three Little Pigs is a 1933 American animated short film released by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Burt Gillett. Based on the fable of the same name, the Silly Symphony won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The short cost $22,000 and grossed $250,000.
In 1994, it was voted #11 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In 2007, Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Three Little Pigs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.