The Practical Pig (1939)

Writers:

Release Date:

24 February 1939 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Comedy | Short

Plot:

Two of the Three Little Pigs are caught by the Big Bad Wolf while swimming. But when the wolf tries to get the third...

Plot Keywords:

Wolf | Pig | Three Little Pigs | Lie Detector | Swimming

Cast

Billy Bletcher	...	Big Bad Wolf (voice) (uncredited)
Pinto Colvig	...	Practical Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Dorothy Compton	...	Fifer Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Mary Moder	...	Fiddler Pig (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

8 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Walt Disney Productions

Trivia:

The last cartoon to star the Three Little Pigs. Although usually listed as a Silly Symphony, the main titles identify it as a Three Little Pigs cartoon, suggesting that a separate series was in the works.

Quotes:

Practical Pig: Didn't I tell you not to go swimming?
Fifer Pig: Oh, we didn't go swimming, did we?
Fiddler Pig: Oh, no.
[the lie detector detects a lie and spanks the two pigs]
Practical Pig: Remember, this hurts me worse than it does you.
[the lie detector sounds again and spanks Practical]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Disneyland: The Story of the Silly Symphony (#2.6)" (1955)

Toons For Supper?

A Walt Disney Cartoon.

With his younger brothers in danger of becoming a pork pie, THE PRACTICAL PIG must have a final showdown with the Big Bad Wolf.

This amusing & lively little film was the last theatrical cartoon to feature the Three Pigs & the Wolf, following THREE LITTLE PIGS (1933), THE BIG BAD WOLF (1934) & THREE LITTLE WOLVES (1936). The Wolf's sons return for this outing and prove themselves to be every bit as rapacious as their father. The tune which the 'mermaid' is strumming on the harp is 'Frankie and Johnny.'

Walt Disney (1901-1966) was always intrigued by pictures & drawings. As a lad in Marceline, Missouri, he sketched farm animals on scraps of paper; later, as an ambulance driver in France during the First World War, he drew comic figures on the sides of his vehicle. Back in Kansas City, along with artist Ub Iwerks, Walt developed a primitive animation studio that provided animated commercials and tiny cartoons for the local movie theaters. Always the innovator, his ALICE IN CARTOONLAND series broke ground in placing a live figure in a cartoon universe. Business reversals sent Disney & Iwerks to Hollywood in 1923, where Walt's older brother Roy became his lifelong business manager & counselor. When a mildly successful series with Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was snatched away by the distributor, the character of Mickey Mouse sprung into Walt's imagination, ensuring Disney's immortality. The happy arrival of sound technology made Mickey's screen debut, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928), a tremendous audience success with its use of synchronized music. The SILLY SYMPHONIES soon appeared, and Walt's growing crew of marvelously talented animators were quickly conquering new territory with full color, illusions of depth and radical advancements in personality development, an arena in which Walt's genius was unbeatable. Mickey's feisty, naughty behavior had captured millions of fans, but he was soon to be joined by other animated companions: temperamental Donald Duck, intellectually-challenged Goofy and energetic Pluto. All this was in preparation for Walt's grandest dream - feature length animated films. Against a blizzard of doomsayers, Walt persevered and over the next decades delighted children of all ages with the adventures of Snow White, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Bambi & Peter Pan. Walt never forgot that his fortunes were all started by a mouse, or that childlike simplicity of message and lots of hard work always pay off.