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===Animated shorts=== *''[[Three Little Pigs (film)|Three Little Pigs]]'', a 1933 ''[[Silly Symphonies|Silly Symphony]]'' cartoon, was produced by [[Walt Disney]]. The production cast the title characters as ''Fifer Pig'', ''Fiddler Pig'', and ''Practical Pig''. The first two are depicted as both frivolous and arrogant. The story has been somewhat softened. The first two pigs still get their houses blown down, but escape from the wolf. Also, the wolf is not boiled to death but simply burns his own behind and runs away. Three sequels soon followed respectively as a result of the short film's popularity: **The first of them was ''[[The Big Bad Wolf (1934 film)|The Big Bad Wolf]]'', also directed by [[Burt Gillett]] and first released on April 14, 1934.<ref>{{cite web |title=Big Bad Wolf, The (film) |url=https://d23.com/a-to-z/big-bad-wolf-the-film/ |website=D23 |access-date=31 January 2020}}</ref> **In 1936, a second cartoon starring the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf followed, with a story based on ''[[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]]''. This short was entitled ''[[Three Little Wolves (film)|Three Little Wolves]]'' and introduced the Big Bad Wolf's three pup sons, all of whom just as eager for a taste of the pigs as their father.<ref>{{cite web |title=Three Little Wolves (film) |url=https://d23.com/a-to-z/three-little-wolves-film/ |website=D23 |access-date=31 January 2020}}</ref> **A third cartoon ''[[The Practical Pig]]'', was released in 1939, right at the end of the Silly Symphonies' run.<ref>{{cite web |title=Practical Pig, The (film) |url=https://d23.com/a-to-z/practical-pig-the-film/ |website=D23 |access-date=31 January 2020}}</ref> In this, Fifer and Piper, again despite Practical's warning, go swimming but are captured by the Wolf, who then goes after Practical only to be caught in Practical's newly built Lie Detector machine. **In 1941, a fourth cartoon much of the film was edited into ''[[The Thrifty Pig]]'', which was distributed by the [[National Film Board of Canada]]. Here, Practical Pig builds his house out of Canadian [[war bonds]], and the Big Bad Wolf representing [[Nazi Germany]] is unable to blow his house down.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thrifty Pig, The (film) |url=https://d23.com/a-to-z/thrifty-pig-the-film/ |website=D23 |access-date=31 January 2020}}</ref> **Fiddler Pig, Fifer Pig, and Big Bad Wolf appeared in the film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''. *In 1942, there was a [[Walter Lantz]] musical version, ''The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142349/|title = The Hams That Couldn't be Cured| website=[[IMDb]] |date = 4 March 1942}}</ref> The wolf (claiming he is a musical instructor) explains to the court how the three little pigs harassed him through their instrument playing which ends up destroying the wolf's house. *In 1942, there was also a wartime version called ''[[Blitz Wolf]]'' with the Wolf as [[Adolf Hitler]]. It was produced by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio]] and directed by [[Tex Avery]]. *Four cartoons inspired by the Disney version were produced by [[Warner Bros.]] **The first was ''[[Pigs in a Polka]]'' (1943) which tells the story to the accompaniment of [[Johannes Brahms]]' [[Hungarian Dances]], which was a serious musical treatment, directed by [[Friz Freleng]]. **The second was ''[[The Windblown Hare]]'' (1949), featuring [[Bugs Bunny]], and directed by Robert McKimson. In ''Windblown'', Bugs is conned into first buying the straw house, which the wolf blows down, and then the sticks house, which the wolf also blows down. After these incidents, Bugs decides to help the wolf and get revenge on all three pigs, who are now at the brick house. **The third was ''[[The Turn-Tale Wolf]]'' (1952), directed by Robert McKimson. This cartoon tells the story from the wolf's point of view and makes the pigs out to be the villains. **The fourth was ''[[Three Little Bops|The Three Little Bops]]'' (1957), featuring the pigs as a jazz band, who refused to let the inept trumpet-playing wolf join until after he died and went to [[Hell]], whereupon his playing markedly improved, directed by [[Friz Freleng]]. *In 1953, Tex Avery directed a [[Droopy]] cartoon, "The Three Little Pups". In it, the pigs are replaced with dogs and the wolf is a [[Southern American English|Southern-accented]] dog catcher trying to catch Droopy and his brothers, Snoopy and Loopy, to put in the dog pound. It was produced by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio]]. *In 1964 Walter Lantz reimagined the tale as the Three Little Woodpeckers with the Three Little Pigs having been replaced with Knothead (whose tree was made of straw), Splinter (whose tree was made of sticks) and Woody (whose tree was petrified), pursued by a somewhat dopey wolf who kept saying "That was a stupid thing to do." *In 1980, the book with [[Erik Blegvad]] illustrations was made. In 1988, [[Weston Woods Studios]] created a short film based on the book. *In 2023, the winner of the Doric Film Festival, ''Spirit of the Festival Award'' was Aaron Gayle (note: misspelled in citation) for his animated version of the Three Wee Grumphie ([[Doric dialect (Scotland)|Doric]] for three little pigs) with all characters speaking the North-east Scotland dialect, and amusing twist in the tale, which features the wolf's mother.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-23 |title=Cyberdoric film proves a winner for Banff Academy |url=https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/news/cyberdoric-film-proves-a-winner-for-banff-academy-318100/ |access-date=2024-01-23 |website=Grampian Online |language=en}}</ref> *''[[Home on the Range (2004 film)|Home on the Range]]'' features a short called ''A Dairy Tale'', where the character Mrs. Caloway tries to tell the story itself, but is constantly interrupted by other characters, who tell the story in their own ways.
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