The Grasshopper and the Ants (film)
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The Grasshopper and the Ants is a 1934 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. Part of the Silly Symphonies series, the film is an adaptation of The Ant and the Grasshopper, one of Aesop's Fables. It was directed by Wilfred Jackson and stars Pinto Colvig as the voice of the grasshopper Hop.[1]
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Directed by | Wilfred Jackson |
Story by | Bill Cottrell |
Produced by | Walt Disney |
Starring | Pinto Colvig Dorothy Compton |
Music by | Leigh Harline |
Animation by | Art Babbitt Dick Huemer Albert Hurter |
Color process | Technicolor |
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Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The film introduced the song "The World Owes Me a Living" (later "I Owe the World a Living") by Leigh Harline and Larry Morey,[2] which later became associated with the character Goofy who was also voiced by Colvig. According to Leonard Maltin on the Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies DVD, this was an early example of the idea of having a character turn blue with cold, when full-spectrum Technicolor was still new at the time.