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== Production == Though distributor [[United Artists]] gave June 9, 1934 as the cartoon's release date, it was actually first shown on May 3, 1934, at the [[Carthay Circle Theatre]] in [[Los Angeles]] for a [[Benefit performance|benefit program]], while it was later given its official debut on June 7 at the [[Radio City Music Hall]] in [[New York City]] as a short subject to its showing of ''[[Sisters Under the Skin]]''.<ref name="CRBirthday" /><ref name="symphony1" /> This cartoon featured the first appearance of Clarence Nash in a Disney production. Nash had been a performer in Chautauqua and vaudeville during the 1920s and later met Wilfred Jackson who wanted Nash to provide bird sounds for a cartoon. During the call, Nash performed a rendition of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" as a duck, and Jackson sent the music into Walt Disney's office. Disney himself proclaimed "[t]hat's our talking duck".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Peri |first=Don |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KUuN3bLD_NoC |title=Working with Walt - Interviews with Disney Artists |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2010 |isbn=9781604739183 |pages=51β52 |language=en |access-date=March 27, 2023}}</ref> The short was animated by [[Art Babbitt]], [[Dick Huemer]], [[Clyde Geronimi]], Louie Schmitt, and Frenchy de Tremaudan (with assistance from a group of junior animators headed by [[Ben Sharpsteen]])<ref name="encyclopedia">{{cite encyclopedia |title=The Wise Little Hen |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts |url=http://disneyshorts.org/shorts.aspx?shortID=207 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726002919/http://www.disneyshorts.org/shorts.aspx?shortID=207 |archive-date=July 26, 2011 |author=Malone, Patrick A. |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="breakdown" /> and directed by [[Wilfred Jackson]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Wise Little Hen |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025997/ |access-date=2007-06-09 |work=[[Internet Movie Database]]}}</ref> Animation on the hen was done by Wolfgang Reitherman and supervised by Ben Sharpsteen. Art Babbitt worked on Peter Pig and Donald Duck.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Friedman |first=Jake |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ciVSEAAAQBAJ |title=The Disney Revolt - The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age |publisher=Chicago Review Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781641607223 |language=en |access-date=March 27, 2023}}</ref> Ward Kimball worked as an inbetweener on this short.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pierce |first=Todd James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rah8DwAAQBAJ |title=The Life and Times of Ward Kimball - Maverick of Disney Animation |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=2019 |isbn=9781496820976 |language=en |access-date=March 27, 2023}}</ref> The song featured in the short, "Help Me Plant My Corn" was written by Leigh Harline.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hischak |first1=Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dimhg9t2TrUC |title=The Disney Song Encyclopedia |last2=Robinson |first2=Mark |publisher=Scarecrow Press |year=2009 |isbn=9780810869387 |pages=76 |language=en |access-date=March 27, 2023}}</ref>
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