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The Pied Piper is an American Pre-Code animated short film based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The short was produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released on September 16, 1933, as a part of the Silly Symphonies series.




Plot


In the city of Hamelin, there is a large population of rats that keeps growing and eating all the food in sight. The mayor offers to pay a bag of gold to whoever can get rid of the rats. At that moment, the Pied Piper shows up and offers his services. By playing a tune on his pipe, he hypnotizes the rodents to follow him out of Hamelin. Then he creates a wheel of cheese with his pipe, tempting the rats to go in and eat it, and once all of the rats were in the holes of the cheese, he makes it vanish.
When he returns to the town, the mayor refuses to pay him the bag of gold because he just played a pipe, and gives him one coin, while the other adults laugh at him. Furious, the Pied Piper decides to get revenge and save the children from growing up to be like the adults by taking them away.
The mayor and adults dismiss him, since they locked the town gate after the rats left and no one can get out. However, the Piper not only charms the children into following him but enchants the town gate into ripping itself open and allowing the children to leave, and the Mayor is left in horror to face the wrath of the adults for the loss of their children. The Piper leads the children to the mountains and an enchanted land with fun and games, where they all live happily ever after.




Home media


The short was released on December 19, 2006, on Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two.
Additional releases include:

Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition II: The Disney Dream Factory: 1933-1938 (VHS), 1985
Walt Disney's Timeless Tales Volume 1: The Prince and the Pauper/Three Little Pigs/The Tortoise and the Hare (DVD), 2005
Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 3: The Prince and the Pauper (DVD), 2009




References






External links


The Pied Piper at IMDb

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• National Board of Review Awards 1933
• George Fawcett
• Jakob Tiedtke
• National Board of Review Awards 1942
• Alfred E. Green
• The Ugly Duckling (film animasi)
• The Tortoise and the Hare (film)
• Academy Award untuk Film Terbaik
• The Three Little Pigs (film)
• Peaches Jackson
• The Pied Piper (1933 film)
• Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Pied Piper (disambiguation)
• 1933 in film
• Three Little Pigs (film)
• Jill Esmond
• Monty Woolley
• National Board of Review Awards 1933
• Irving Pichel
• The Night Before Christmas (1933 film)