The Big Bad Wolf
Animation · 7 min · dir. Burt Gillett
Red Riding Hood travels to visit her sick grandmother.
- animated cartoon
Synopsis
The two foolish little pigs escort Red Riding Hood on a short cut through the woods, against the advice of their bricklayer brother. When they encounter the wolf, Red runs ahead to granny's house and the pigs run home. The wolf gets to granny's house first and scares her into a closet, then dresses as granny. Alerted by his brothers, the smart pig arrives just as granny has pulled Red into the closet with her and takes care of the wolf with the help of some hot coals and popcorn.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Burt Gillett
- Writer
- Charles Perrault
- Studio
- Walt Disney Productions
- Released
- 1934-04-14
- Running time
- 7 minutes
Cast & crew
Burt Gillett Director
Sara Berner
Billy Bletcher
Pinto Colvig- Dorothy Compton
- Mary Moder
- Shirley Reed
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · Bizzare! · Logoliker2004 · 2008-03-02
Man, this is a pretty strange combination of classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes, particularly that scarecrow. I also thought the part with the Black Sheep impersonating a wolf was kinda funny. All the characters have a Silly Symphony-esque style to it. But the strangest thing is that the Big Bad Wolf in this cartoon looks suspiciously like Disney's Big Bad Wolf from the "Three Little Pigs" cartoon (a.k.a. Zeke Wolf). He even appears to be voiced by the same voice actor, Billy Bletcher! I wonder if Disney got miffed off by this wolf? ;)
★★★★ · This isn't the original title of the cartoon... · WaverBoy · 2005-06-29
This classic Iwerks cartoon was originally titled "Little Boy Blue", and the restored version of it, with proper title, can be found on a DVD entitled Cartoons That Time Forgot: The Ub Iwerks Collecton Vol. 1. I'd highly recommend both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, as nearly all of Iwerks' surviving work is represented therein, lovingly restored and compiled by David Shepard and his company, Film Preservation Associates.
★★★ · Fun score · Victor Von Psychotron · 2014-03-25
The music in this is very good, as is the animation during the scarecrow's dance sequence.
★★ · Who's afraid NOW? · Spuzz · 2006-04-15
A pretty lame U.B. Iwerks cartoon here actually. Theres a lot of influences, from the Silly Symphony cartoons to even Betty Boop, The plot here combines a lot of things, Boy who cried wolf, Little Bo Beep, and a little Three Little Pigs. All of that to make for a simple story about a wolf who steals a sheep from a flock and the residents effort to get it back. The scarecrow in this sounds like Billy Murray.
Iwerks · filmsplice · 2007-07-28
In a bit of historical relevance, an uncle of mine claimed he created Oswald, sold the rights on the spot, and he provided very credible career information and documentation to back up his story. It wasn't Disney who created the character, and I strongly gather that Iwerks had more creative input than Disney at that point. (My uncle also did marquee design for decades for Hollywood premieres, hand-lettered film titles on mattes for the films themselves, etc., and years back I was given some of the originals...but no cels; they weren't commonly kept back then). Why isn't The Pincushionman--as…
