Animation Artifacts &Illustration 13 Feb 2007 08:03 am

Three Little Pigs Well Done

– Well, boys and girls, it’s time to complete our story. When last we left the three pigs, we saw that the wolf was huffing and puffing on the door of the 2nd little pig’s house where two of the little guys were hiding.

This is the completion of my posting of the book published in 1933 at the height of the Three Little Pig‘s phenomenonal success. The book’s illustrations have some of the charm of the original short

For years we heard that this was film acted as a metaphor for the Depression – the Big Bad Wolf knocking on America’s door. This supposedly was the reason for the film’s success. Was that an interpretation that was made during the Depression? I suppose if I were an historian I might actually look into it.
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