Chicken Little (1943)
- Directed by
- Clyde Geronimi
- Genre
- comedy film, animated film, family film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 8 min
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 53 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This short film adapts the folk tale of Chicken Little to warn against mass hysteria during wartime. A gullible chicken convinces other barnyard animals that the sky is falling, leading to chaos and danger.
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What happens
Chicken Little is a 1943 short film created by Walt Disney during World War II and directed by Clyde Geronimi. The short was based on the European folk tale "Henny Penny", known in the United States as "Chicken Little". It is an anti-Nazi film showing the evils of mass hysteria. The folk tale was adapted by Disney again into a separate full-length film of the same name in 2005, with Zach Braff as the titular protagonist and directed by Mark Dindal. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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