The Pied Piper (1933 film)

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The Pied Piper
Directed by	Wilfred Jackson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Running time	7 minutes, 30 seconds
Country	United States
Language	English

The Pied Piper is a 1933 American Pre-Code animated short film based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The short was produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released on September 16, 1933, as a part of the Silly Symphonies series.

Plot

In the city of Hamelin, there is a large population of rats that keeps growing and eating all the food in sight. The mayor offers to pay a bag of gold to whoever can get rid of the rats. At that moment, the Pied Piper shows up and offers his services. By playing a tune on his pipe, he hypnotizes the rodents to follow him out of Hamelin. Then he creates a wheel of cheese with his pipe, tempting the mice to go in and eat it, and once all of the mice were in the holes of the cheese, he makes it vanish.

When he returns to the town, the mayor refuses to pay him the bag of gold because he just played a pipe, and gives him one coin, while the other adults laugh at him. Furious, the Pied Piper decides to get revenge and save the children from growing up to be as bad as the adults by taking them away.

The mayor and adults dismiss him, since they locked the town gate after the rats left and no one can get out. To the Mayor's shock, the Piper not only charms the children into following him but enchants the town gate into ripping itself open and allowing the children to leave. The Piper leads the children to the mountains and an enchanted land with fun and games, where they all live happily ever after.

Home video release

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v t e Silly Symphony film series
1929	The Skeleton Dance El Terrible Toreador Springtime Hell's Bells The Merry Dwarfs
1930	Summer Autumn Cannibal Capers Frolicking Fish Arctic Antics Midnight in a Toy Shop Night Monkey Melodies Winter Playful Pan
1931	Birds of a Feather Mother Goose Melodies The China Plate The Busy Beavers The Cat's Out Egyptian Melodies The Clock Store The Spider and the Fly The Fox Hunt The Ugly Duckling
1932	The Bird Store The Bears and the Bees Just Dogs Flowers and Trees King Neptune Bugs in Love Babes in the Woods Santa's Workshop
1933	Birds in the Spring Father Noah's Ark Three Little Pigs Old King Cole Lullaby Land The Pied Piper The Night Before Christmas
1934	The China Shop The Grasshopper and the Ants Funny Little Bunnies The Big Bad Wolf The Wise Little Hen The Flying Mouse Peculiar Penguins The Goddess of Spring
1935	The Tortoise and the Hare The Golden Touch The Robber Kitten Water Babies The Cookie Carnival Who Killed Cock Robin? Music Land Three Orphan Kittens Cock o' the Walk Broken Toys
1936	Elmer Elephant Three Little Wolves Toby Tortoise Returns Three Blind Mouseketeers The Country Cousin Mother Pluto More Kittens
1937	Woodland Café Little Hiawatha The Old Mill
1938	Moth and the Flame Wynken, Blynken, and Nod Farmyard Symphony Merbabies Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
1939	The Practical Pig The Ugly Duckling
Related	Donald Duck Comic strip Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics Bucky Bug "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" The Thrifty Pig Mickey Mouse Works Once Upon a Studio
Category

v t e Pied Piper of Hamelin
Film	The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918) Cheating the Piper (1920) The Pied Piper (1933) Paying the Piper (1949) The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) The Pied Piper (1972) Kummatty (1979) Fluteman (1982) Abra Cadabra (1983) The Pied Piper (1986) It's the Pied Piper, Charlie Brown (2000)
Literature	Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (1994) King Rat (1998) Wild Blood (1999) The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (2001) The Rats of Hamelin (2005) Peter & Max: A Fables Novel (2009)
Television	Hamelen (1970s series) Pied Piper Puss (The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show episode, 1980) The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Faerie Tale Theatre episode, 1985) The Day of the Clown (The Sarah Jane Adventures story) "Scatty Safari" (The Goodies episode)
Music	Der Rattenfänger von Hameln (1879 opera) Clarinet Concerto (1948 Copland Concerto) "Mr. Tambourine Man" (1965 Bob Dylan song) "The Piper" (1980 ABBA song) Pied Piper Fantasy (1982 Corigliano Concerto) "Symphony of Destruction" (1992 Megadeth song) "The Sound Above My Hair" (2009 Scooter video)
Characters	Pied Piper (The Flash) Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Story within a story	Testament The Flies Montag aus Licht
Related	Popular culture Literary accounts Pied Piper's House Ratcatcher's Day

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