A Silly Symphony Of Rats In Revue

Disney Tells The Pied Piper (1933) in Technicolor

A Disney Silly Symphony with human characters and rats, rats, rats. The latter are abundant as to reflect over-hours animators spent getting them drawn, crowd scenes, be they rodent or whatever, evidence of production value in cartoons, and no one delivered in that respect like Disney. Animals were a bulwark for those who drew, people another matter. Mastering the human form was tough even unto Snow White, a four-years-later sticking point at which Disney had reached artistry's summit otherwise. I've never quite understood what makes a person so much tougher to animate than a dog or a duck, that just showing how little I know. Are our features so much more complex than that of animals? I know cats who are lots more expressive than some people I know. Nice how Disney didn't flinch from grim aspects of fairy tales: In this instance, the Piper makes off with village children and doesn't bring them back. The Symphonies must have startled then-audiences with bursts of three-color preceding B/W features. Disney was exclusive using improved Technicolor for cartoons at this point and we can but imagine impact it had.