The famous cartoon first appeared 85 years ago with the fresh, inspiring take on the pigs, introducing the song quoted above, :"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf", and started a whole new chapter! Not by the hair of my chinny chinn chin hah..:)!
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After this, the distributor at the time, United Artists, was so enthused as had, and at least two generations later (it WAS at least a showing that we can always at any time, and certainly in that ersa fight "the wolf at the door") that the United Artists executives thought, if ONE "Three Little Pigs" short might be a blessing, image how TWO Three Little Pigs shorts or more.
So, it was, "Give us More Pigs", as the books and entertainment documentaries have quoted it (accurately)
Walt said, "okay", abd had his studio make more, ut alas, it didn't work. Thus, a new Disney quote was coined:
"You can't top pigs with pigs"
Famous story, of course, but anyway.
The three sequels were
"The Practical Pig"
"The Big Bad Wolf"
plus a spinoff, The Big Bad Wolf.
Various elements, interestingly, got re-arranged into a later 1967 album. See below...
During another legendary, hard time, which became for later generations a learning tool to see what America fought for, i.e., World War Two, Disney used all of those characters and his others in films to help America thru tough times, another thing we all in 2018 can learn from, and kick-(donkey) training films. We all can use more of that today in war and peace.
The legendary and often mentioned (in nostalgia-history television/film retrospectives) cast were:
Practical/PINTO COLVIG
The others
MARY MODER, DOROTHY COMPTON (don't knwo about who played who)
Big Bad Wolf/BILLY BLETCHER (early major role-"I'll huff and puff! RAWRRR!")
Picture books, including the longtime family-friendly, always fun "Little Golden Books" followed.
These classic, books, beloved from day one for original material ranging from "The Poky Little Pokey',"Bow Wow Meow","A Visit to the Children's Zoo","Scruffy the Tugboat","the Tawny Scrawny Lion", and so on, as well as licensed properties, also, to quite the legendary comedian Jimmy Durante's tag, got into the act. There must have been at least six (the line owner WESTERN PUBLISHING CO. liked to do variaitons and updates of the lines>0
Many albums, including beloved comic, and sometime dramatic character actor STERLING HOLLOWAY with a 1967 album, followed. That one had the above witht hew different pig stores, and titled "The stories and song about Walt Disney's 'Three Little Pigs'" in a beautiful "Peter, Paul and Mary" (i.e., the very soon to follow "Partridge Family" show font, called Kalligraphia. ) The album was issued with a typical mid-century Disneyland records (the label) gatefold storyteller. Brillant and professional artwork, as always.
Of course trendy, and hip, t-shirts.
And finally a very funny postscript:
Made at least for Dr. Demento's longtime radio show, the novelty hard rock band "Green Jelly"'s late 20th century, "LITTLE LITTLE PIG", with a deep Iron Butterfly/KISS like heavy metal-vocalist doing a hilarious totally dead-on impression of the "beloved" Billy Bletcher's "Little Pig"(you knwo the rest) line. (Billy would be known for other sock-em villians)..
Oh, and during the film's inital run in 1933, another Disney legnedary yarn:
To show the run, the boss of a chain or theatre unit drew BEARDS on the one-sheet posters
