Thursday 23 August 2012

More Three Little Pigs!

It seems you all enjoyed watching The Three Little Pigs so here is
some other facts about the 1933 award winner:

1) Three Little Pigs won the Academy Award for Best Cartoon. It was so
popular that theatres kept running it even as they changed the main
feature. (See photo of theatre showing the film that had it so long
the pigs had grown beards.)

2) The demand for more of the pigs resulted in more Disney cartoons
featuring the three little pigs but they were barely noticed, even
though they surpassed the original in quality and storytelling.

3) The film's simple song “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” was an
instant unexpected hit. There was no sheet music published at first,
so bands sent people to the theatres to copy down the music they heard
so they could play it. It was used in various live-action feature
films when someone played a piano or harmonica, and it was
piano-played in Disney's MICKEY'S FIRE BRIGADE. (See photo of sheet
music cover.)

4) The song was originally written as “Who's Afraid of the Big Old
Wolf?” but the singers kept saying Big Bad Wolf so it was kept as
such.

5) In the original story it ends with the pigs boiling and eating the
wolf! That would have been a great ending!!!

Aaaaaannnd just for fun here is the Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wold sing along!

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