Peter and the Wolf (1946 film)
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| Directed by | Clyde Geronimi |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Written by | Eric Gurney Dick Huemer Sergei Prokofiev |
| Based on | Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev |
| Narrated by | Sterling Holloway |
| Music by | Edward H. Plumb Kurt Graunke (conductor) |
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| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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| Country | United States |
Peter and the Wolf is an 1946 animated short based on the 1936 musical composition/fairy tale by Sergei Prokofiev, produced by Walt Disney and narrated by Sterling Holloway. It was originally released theatrically as a segment in Make Mine Music. It was re-issued the following year accompanying a re-issue of Fantasia (as a short subject before the film), then released separately on home video in the 1990s.
Prokofiev, while touring the West in 1938, visited Los Angeles and met Walt Disney. Prokofiev performed the piano version of Peter and the Wolf for "le papa de Mickey Mouse", as Prokofiev described him in a letter to his sons. Disney was impressed, and considered adding an animated version of Peter and the Wolf to Fantasia, which was to be released in 1940. Due to the war, these plans fell through, and it was not until 1946 that Disney released his version of Peter and the Wolf. It is not known if Prokofiev, by that point behind the Iron Curtain, was aware of this.
In Disney's animated adaptation of Prokofiev's masterpiece, in which every character is represented musically by a different instrument, a young Peter decides to go hunting for the wolf that's been prowling around the village. Along the way, he is joined by his friends Sasha the bird, Sonia the duck and Ivan the cat.
This version makes several changes to the original story, for example:
An audio recording of this version with expanded narration by Sterling Holloway was released on Disneyland Records (DQ-1242).
In Belle's Tales of Friendship, the Disney version of Peter and the Wolf is featured and narrated by Belle instead of Sterling Holloway. This version of Peter and the Wolf was featured in House of Mouse and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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