The Wise Little Hen
- Clarence Nash: voice of Donald Duck
- Pinto Colvig: voice of Peter Pig
- Florence Gill: Voice of the little hen
The Wise Little Hen (Original Title: The Wise Little Hen ) is an American animated film of 1934 from the Walt Disney production based (the little red hen ) on the fairy tale The Little Red Hen.
The film from the Silly Symphonies series is consistently set to music as a song. It contains the first appearance of Donald Duck, who still lives in this film on a boat and therefore bears the typical sailor suit, which he has maintained to this day. The film was premiered on 9 June 1934, therefore, this date is officially known as the " birth " of Donald Duck.
The film
Action
The Wise Little Hen wants to plant corn and therefore asks the Pig Peter Pig and Duck Donald Duck for help. However, this claim they have abdominal pain, to shirk work. The hen therefore sows the corn with their chicks themselves. After the corn is grown and harvested to be, the hen Peter and Donald asks again for help, but again talk this out. After the hen has harvested the corn and made into delicious dishes, she asks Peter and Donald, if they really want to help her eat. Both immediately stop the dramatic display of their abdominal pain and take in expectation of the hen fed a covered bowl against. In the but is, instead of the hoped-for food only a bottle of castor oil.
More filming
The former Disney employees Ub Iwerks also produced in his studio in the same year an animated version of this story under the title The Little Red Hen.
Performance in Germany
In Germany the film was first performed in 1935, on 26 February 1935, he was approved by the Board of Film Berlin. A few months later, Disney stopped the export of other films in the German Empire, so this was the only Donald Duck cartoon shown to the war in Germany.
In 1991, the film was released on video, the title was incorrectly translated in The Wise Little Hen. 2004, the film was released on DVD Walt Disney Treasures: Funny world of melodies and Walt Disney Treasures: Donald through the ages with correctly translated title The Wise Little Hen.