Pigs Is Pigs (1954)

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Movie
Original title Pigs is pigs
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1954
length 10 mins
Rod
Director Jack Kinney
script Leo Salkin
production Walt Disney
for Walt Disney Production
music Oliver Wallace

Pigs Is Pigs is an American animated short film directed by Jack Kinney from 1954.

action

Station master Mike Flannery is guided in his work exclusively by regulations that he reads faithfully from appropriate books. When one day two guinea pigs are delivered to him and the owner McMorehouse wants to pick them up later, Flannery charges him 48 cents because they are pigs. McMorehouse insists that the animals are pets that would cost only 44 cents. He finally refuses to accept the car and leaves the station angrily. Flannery, on the other hand, asks his superiors by telegram whether guinea pigs should be calculated as pigs or as pets.

The case goes through every instance, causes tons of paper traffic and finally ends with the director's decision that guinea pigs are pets. In the meantime, the guinea pigs have had young, so that in the end, instead of two, one million and two guinea pigs populate Flannery's railway station. The customer, to whom Flannery wants to communicate the result of his efforts, has meanwhile moved away. Without further ado, Flannery has all the guinea pigs transported to his superiors. In the future, he decides, he will only classify every four-legged friend as a pet.

production

Pigs Is Pigs was released in Technicolor on May 21, 1954 . After two silent films in 1910 and 1914, it was the third film adaptation of the short story of the same name by Ellis Parker Butler from 1905. The plot is performed in rhyme - the narrator is Gary Owens - or presented in song form.

Awards

Pigs Is Pigs was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 1955 , but could not prevail against When Magoo Flew .

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