The Pied Piper (1933)
The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.
Released: Sep 16, 1933
Runtime: 8 minutes
Stars: George Gramlich, Allan Watson, Marion Darlington, Harriette Haddon
Crew: Wilfred Jackson (Director), Leigh Harline (Original Music Composer), Robert Browning (Original Story), Walt Disney (Producer), Ed Love (Animation), Ben Sharpsteen (Animation)