Little Red Riding Hood (1922/II)

User Rating:

6.3/10   

Director:

Walt Disney

Writers:

Charles Perrault (story)
Walt Pfeiffer (writer)

Release Date:

29 July 1922 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Animation | Family | Short

Plot:

Mother is making donuts: She throws up a circle of dough, and a cat shoots a hole in it. Later, he fishes...

Plot Keywords:

Pilot | Nine Lives | Fairy Tale | Laugh O Gram | Attempted Rape

Runtime:

6 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Silent

Company:

Laugh-O-Gram Films

Trivia:

No longer lost according to a story in the L.A. Times of 17 July 1998.

Movie Connections:

Version of La caperucita roja (1960)

Little Red Riding Hood is historical as the first ever Walt Disney cartoon

The plot summary pretty much describes everything that happens in this cartoon. Well, except that when the plane is flying, it literally flaps its wings! According to IMDb, this was also the first animated cartoon Walt Disney ever made. If that's true then what a find this is! I liked many of the beginning gags of the mother throwing the dough up in the air, the cat shooting holes in each dough that's thrown up, then the donut that becomes the result when it lands in the pan. And then the cat losing his nine lives and being taken away as a result of eating the donut (presumably because it was still greasy!). The plot summary also didn't mention the human wolf's car literally floating on air as it passes over cliffs! Or the old bearded man in the picture frame laughing when he watched the mother and the cat's antics or a couple of notes dancing when they came out of the mother's horn as she called for Red! While Little Red Riding Hood was primitive, since this was the earliest animated effort of the eventual legendary Walt Disney, it's worth a look at least once. Found this on YouTube.