Release Date May
15, 1937
Running Time 9:12
Synopsis
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A young Indian brave sets off into the forest primeval to prove his worth
by hunting big game. Unfortunately, he finds that some of the game is a lot
bigger than he is!
Characters
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Hiawatha
Credits
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Director : Dave Hand
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Music : Albert Hay Malotte
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Animation : Frank Thomas
Sources
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Very loosely based on the epic poem "The Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow.
Videos
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United States
- Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 13 : Fanciful Fables
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Favorite Stories : Paul
Bunyan
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Italy
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Le Fiabe Volume 2 : Il
Brutto Anatraccolo e Altre Storie
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Le Meravigliose Fiabe
del Grillo Parlante
Laserdiscs
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United States
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Paul Bunyan / The
Three Little Pigs
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Cartoon Classics : First Series : Volume 13 :
Silly Symphonies -
Fanciful Fables
DVD
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United States
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Pocahontas 2 : Journey to a New
World
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Timeless Tales : Volume 3
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Region 2 : United Kingdom
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Walt Disney's Fables : Volume 2
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Germany
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Zauberhafte
Marchenwelt 2
Television
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The Ink and Paint Club : #49 :
More Storybook Silly
Symphonies
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Mickey's Mouse Tracks :
Episode 52
Technical Specifications
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Color Type : Technicolor
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Animation type : Standard
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Sound mix : Mono
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Aspect ration : 1.37 : 1
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Negative format : 35mm
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Print format : 35mm
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Cinematographic process : Spherical
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Original language : English
Originally Released by United Artists.
Comments
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A Silly Symphony.
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Disney had at one time considered making a full-length feature of the Hiawatha
story, but the idea never fully developed and was shelved.
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From Jerry Edwards : Little Hiawatha is
a little Indian boy who wants to be a mighty hunter and goes off into the
forest alone to prove himself. When he can't bring himself to shoot a young
rabbit, he endears himself to the woodland creatures, who repay his kindness
by rescuing him from an angry grizzly bear. A nicely animated cartoon, with
the scene of Hiawatha being chased by the bear being especially well done
and exciting. The special effects animation of the waterfall is especially
nicely done. Disney does get a little too cute with Hiawatha's pants continually
falling down and mooning the audience numerous times.
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From Per Nilsson : My first encounter with
Little Hiawatha was not the animated cartoon, but the comic book character.
He appeared every week in the Swedish weekly magazine and I didn't know until
rather recently, from where this rather odd character originated.
There is not much to add to Jerry's description of the short, only that it
has quite a few similarities to the later produced
"Donald's Vacation." Both starts
with Hiawatha/Donald travelling in a canoe, later on getting drenched by
a waterfall. They steps down in deep water and get all wet. Later on they
meet a bear which they both inspects hanging from it's nose. And last but
not least, both of them are mooning the audience a lot!
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From Richard B. Campos : I loved it ever
since I saw it as a small boy, now I'm 22, and have a tattoo of him on my
chest (I'm Navajo.) I wish Disney would make a full length film.
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From Barbie Dicks : During our vacation
at Disney World in Jan. 2006, the Hiawatha clip was shown on the hotel TV
and my 3 year old adored it. The grown-ups laughed, too. I'm now looking
for it on DVD.
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From Chris : This is one of my favorites of the Silly Symphony series. It contain a good among of action with humor and pathos... just the way Walt would have like it. The single sweetest moment in any DIsney cartoon for me is the little rabbit's happy reuinion with his family after Hiawatha decides to spare his life. You genuinely believe the little guy's terror at the prospect of dying, and thus end up sharing his family's ecstacy to find him spared (although it is amusing that Mama Rabbit -- the one of the right in that scene looks more feminine that the one that does all the licking and hugging -- intially jumps 12 feet in the air to see her baby safe... then sniffs at it quizzically while Papa and the other bunnies smother it with affection).
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From Baruch Weiss : A little Indian goes out to hunt animals, but makes the right choice and gives up! Wonderful and cute cartoon especially when the boy's pants falls down!
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