Brave Little Tailor
| Brave Little Tailor | |
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| Directed by | Bill Roberts |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Voices by | Walt Disney Marcellite Garner Eddie Holden |
| Music by | Albert Hay Malotte |
| Animation by |
Fred Moore Bill Tytla Frank Thomas Ollie Johnston Don Patterson Milt Schaffer Les Clark Riley Thompson Jack Campbell Don Williams John Noel Tucker Andy Engman |
| Studio | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 9 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Mickey's Parrot (1938) |
| Followed by | Society Dog Show (1939) |
Brave Little Tailor is a 1938 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon is an adaptation of the fairy tale The Valiant Little Tailor with Mickey Mouse in the title role. The film was directed by Bill Roberts and features original music by Albert Hay Malotte. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey, Marcellite Garner as Minnie, and Eddie Holden as the Giant.
Brave Little Tailor was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 11th Academy Awards in 1939, but lost to Disney's own Ferdinand the Bull. In 1994 the film was chosen as the 26th greatest cartoon of all time by members of the animation field. The list was compiled in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.
Set during the Middle Ages in Europe, a king is seeking a brave warrior to kill a giant which has been terrorizing the small kingdom. There is much discussion in the village, but no one is willing to take on the task. Nearby in the same village, a young peasant tailor (Mickey Mouse) kills seven flies at once while at his work, and accidentally interjects several other peasants' discussion of the problems with the giant to brag loudly about his accomplishment:
Gossip that Mickey has killed seven giants with one blow quickly spreads around the kingdom. The king summons Mickey, and asks if he really "killed seven at one blow". Mickey goes into an elaborate re-telling of how he killed the seven (flies, not giants as the king believes), which impresses the king enough to appoint Mickey "Royal High Killer of the Giant". Upon learning the misunderstanding, all of Mickey's confidence disappears and he attempts to stammer his way out of the assignment. The king offers Mickey both vast riches and the hand of his only daughter, Princess Minnie, in marriage if he can kill (or at least subdue) the giant. Smitten with the princess, Mickey proclaims that he'll "cut [the giant] down to my size", and sets off for the giant's lair.
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