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Release Date:
September 16, 1933
Original Title:
The Pied Piper
Alternate Titles:
El flautista de Hamelin
Il piffero magico
Le Joueur de Flûte
Genres:
Animation
Production Companies:
Walt Disney Productions
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 8
The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.
Animation:
Ben Sharpsteen
Joseph D'Igalo
Archie Robin
Marvin Woodward
Ugo D'Orsi
Hardie Gramatky
Cy Young
Dick Williams
Paul Allen
Ed Love
Clyde Geronimi
Art Babbitt
Hamilton Luske
Frenchy de Trémaudan
Dick Huemer
Director:
Wilfred Jackson
Layout:
Ferdinand Horvath
Original Music Composer:
Leigh Harline
Original Story:
Robert Browning
Producer:
Walt Disney
Story:
Webb Smith
Ted Sears
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