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Three Little

Pigs-Big Little Picture

by J. B. Kaufman

Dan Thomas, the syndicated film reviewer, was well

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of outstanding films released
during 1933. His list of the ten best films of the year
acknowledged such distinguished "prestige" features
as Berkeley Square and The Power and the Glory, along
with popular favorites like Footlight Parade and She
Done Him Wrong. But at the top of the list he placed a
modest animated cartoon, with only four characters
and a running time of less than nine minutes. The film
was Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs, and Thomas show¬
ed no hesitation in naming it the best film of the year.
He was not alone in his enthusiasm. Released
in May 1933 with no special publicity or promotion,

craze

aware

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of the variety

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Pigs had quickly blossomed into a national
no one, least of all the Disney staff, was

for which

prepared. People who worked on the cartoon still
shake their heads in amazement over the sudden wave
of fame that engulfed the film and its characters; that
created such a shortage of prints that some exhibitors
resorted to showing the foreign-language editions;
that catapulted the simple melody, "Who's Afraid of
the Big Bad Wolf?", to such popularity Time called it
"the tune by which 1933 will be remembered."
At year's end the film was still showing in
major first-run theaters, and it would remain there
until the spring of 1934 - and, even then, would be
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