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Three Orphan Kittens
Released October 26, 1935
Running Time 8:55
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Three Orphan Kittens

"A Silly Symphony"

Synopsis

Three kittens are heartlessly abandoned during a snowstorm. They try to take refuge in a nearby house and playfully begin to tear the house apart.

Characters

Three Orphan Kittens
Mammy Twoshoes

Credits

Director : Dave Hand
Animation : Ken Anderson
Story : Bill Cottrell
Layout : Ken Anderson

Cut Scenes

A black doll exclaiming "Mammy!" was cut out of this short.

Awards

Academy Award winner (Short Subjects - Cartoons)

Videos

United States
Cartoon Classics : Limited Gold Editions 2 : How the Best Was Won : 1933-1960
Germany
Meister-Cartoons von Walt Disney
Italy
I Capolavori di Walt Disney
France
Les Chefs-d'Oeuvre de Walt Disney

Laserdiscs

United States
How the Best was Won 1933-1960
Japan
The Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons
The Three Little Pigs

Television

The Ink and Paint Club : #1 : Award Winners
The Ink and Paint Club : #27 : Meow! The Disney Cats
Donald's Quack Attack : Episode 9

Technical Specifications

Color Type : Technicolor
Animation type : Standard
Sound mix : Mono
Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1
Negative format : 35mm
Print format : 35mm
Cinematographic process : Spherical
Original language : English

Released by United Artists

Title Cards

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(Note : Titlecards and screenshots taken from the 2006 DVD Disney Treasures : More Silly Symphonies.)

Comments

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From Jerry Edwards :
Three kittens are discarded in a snow storm, but find refuge in a warm house. After several mishaps that result in broken dishes, the kittens are about to be thrown out by the maid. But the little girl of the house rescues the kittens by asking to be allowed to keep them. The unusually high animation design and use of perspective is considered the key to this short winning the Oscar. Although nicely done and enjoyable, I just don't consider this short Oscar quality. I would have chosen "Music Land" myself.

From Ryan :
Overall this short was good. I thought it was kind of cute. One thing that puzzles me is that the mother was black and her daughter was white. How the heck did this happen? Perhaps she was adopted.

From Ettore D'Agostino :
In this short the use of perspective is extraordinary. in some sequences look at the background: it's not stationary, it moves while the point of view changes. The movement of the camera is not so complicated such as in the ballroom sequence from Beauty And The Beast, but they had not CGI technologies.

From Baruch Weiss :
This was the first of three shorts starring the politically incorrect maid Mammy Twoshoes. Although a similar maid apperad in the 1943 short "Figaro and Cleo" she was known as Aunt Delilah; perhaps she is a sister to Mammy Twoshoes!

Referenced Comments

Plane Crazy (1928)
The Robber Kitten (1935)