The Pied Piper (1933 film)

The Pied Piper
Silly Symphony series
Directed by	Wilfred Jackson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Music by	Leigh Harline
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	September 16, 1933 (1933-09-16) (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes, 30 seconds
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Lullaby Land
Followed by	The Night Before Christmas

The Pied Piper is a 1933 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 mice to go in and eat it, and once all of the mice 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 as bad as 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. To the Mayor's shock, 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. The Piper leads the children to the mountains and an enchanted land with fun and games, where they all live happily ever after.

Home video release

External links

The Pied Piper at the Internet Movie Database
The Pied Piper at The Big Cartoon DataBase

Silly Symphony film series

Shorts	The Skeleton Dance (1929) El Terrible Toreador (1929) Springtime (1929) Hell's Bells (1929) The Merry Dwarfs (1929) Summer (1930) Autumn (1930) Cannibal Capers (1930) Frolicking Fish (1930) Arctic Antics (1930) Midnight in a Toy Shop (1930) Night (1930) Monkey Melodies (1930) Winter (1930) Playful Pan (1930) Birds of a Feather (1931) Mother Goose Melodies (1931) The China Plate (1931) The Busy Beavers (1931) The Cat's Out (1931) Egyptian Melodies (1931) The Clock Store (1931) The Spider and the Fly (1931) The Fox Hunt (1931) The Ugly Duckling (1931) The Bird Store (1932) The Bears and the Bees (1932) Just Dogs (1932) Flowers and Trees (1932) King Neptune (1932) Bugs in Love (1932) Babes in the Woods (1932) Santa's Workshop (1932) Birds in the Spring (1933) Father Noah's Ark (1933) The Three Little Pigs (1933) Old King Cole (1933) Lullaby Land (1933) The Pied Piper (1933) The Night Before Christmas (1933) The China Shop (1934) The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934) Funny Little Bunnies (1934) The Big Bad Wolf (1934) The Wise Little Hen (1934) The Flying Mouse (1934) Peculiar Penguins (1934) The Goddess of Spring (1934) The Tortoise and the Hare (1935) The Golden Touch (1935) The Robber Kitten (1935) Water Babies (1935) The Cookie Carnival (1935) Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935) Music Land (1935) Three Orphan Kittens (1935) Cock o' the Walk (1935) Broken Toys (1935) Elmer Elephant (1936) Three Little Wolves (1936) Toby Tortoise Returns (1936) Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936) The Country Cousin (1936) Mother Pluto (1936) More Kittens (1936) Woodland Café (1937) Little Hiawatha (1937) The Old Mill (1937) Moth and the Flame (1938) Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1938) Farmyard Symphony (1938) Merbabies (1938) Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) The Practical Pig (1939) The Ugly Duckling (1939)

Directors	Jack Cutting Walt Disney Burt Gillett David Hand Rudolf Ising Ub Iwerks Wilfred Jackson Ben Sharpsteen Vernon Stallings

Book Category

Pied Piper of Hamelin

Film	Cheating the Piper (1920) The Pied Piper (1933) Paying the Piper (1949) The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) The Pied Piper (1972) Pink Piper (1976) Fluteman (1982) Abra Cadabra (1983) The Pied Piper (1986) It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000)

Literature	King Rat (1998) Wild Blood (1999) The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (2001) The Rats of Hamelin (2005)

Television	Hamelen (1970s series) The Day of the Clown (The Sarah Jane Adventures story) "Scatty Safari" (The Goodies episode)

Music	Clarinet Concerto (1948 Copland Concerto) "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965 Bob Dylan song) "The Piper" (1980 ABBA song) Pied Piper Fantasy (1982 Corigliano Concerto) "Symphony of Destruction" (1992 Megadeth song) "The Sound Above My Hair" (2009 Scooter video)

Characters	Pied Piper (Flash) Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Story within a story	Testament The Flies Montag aus Licht

Related	Der Rattenfänger von Hameln Popular culture Literary accounts Pied Piper's House Ratcatcher's Day Kummatty Politically Correct Bedtime Stories

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