Cheating the Piper (1920)
- Original title
- Jerry on the Job: Cheating the Piper
- Directed by
- Vernon Stallings
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 4 min
- Rating
- 2.7 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This silent animated short reimagines the Pied Piper story. A piper uses his music to lure away the town's children and the cartoon characters must find a way to stop him.
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What happens
Cheating the Piper is a 1920 American silent short animated film by Bray Productions, and is one of the cartoons based on the comic strip Jerry on the Job since the series started in 1916. The film itself is loosely based on the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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