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Walt’s most famous Silly Symphony was “The Three Little Pigs.”
This was made at
a time when many
people were out of
work.
Who’s afraid of the
big bad wolf, the
big bad wolf, the
big bad wolf …
This happy song made the American people feel better. They sang it as
the left the movie.
All the films took hard work. At twenty-four frames per second, a seven
minute cartoon required about 10,000 drawings, each a little different
from the one before it.
The main action was drawn by the
animators, with assistant animators
and “in-betweeners” filling in the
rest of the drawings. Other jobs were
done by layout and background men,
directors, story men, and musicians.