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The Grasshopper and the Ants

Name: The Grasshopper and the Ants
Director: Wilfred Jackson
Genre: Animation, Family, Music
Released: 1934
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton

As in the classic fable, the grasshopper plays his fiddle and lives for the moment, while the industrious ants squirrel away massive amounts of food for the winter. With his song, he's able to convince at least one small ant until the queen arrives and scares him back to work. The queen warns the grasshopper of the trouble he'll be in, come winter. Winter comes, and the grasshopper, near starvation, stumbles across the ants, who are having a full-on feast in their snug little tree. They take him in and warm him up. The queen tells him only those who work can eat so he must play for them. Written by Jon Reeves

1934 · Directed by Wilfred Jackson · 8 min · Animation · Family · Music · 10 frames

Tagline

A grasshopper learns a lesson about hard work.

Crew

Written by: William Cottrell, Joe Grant, Pinto Colvig
Music: Leigh Harline
Produced by: Walt Disney

Cast

Pinto Colvig as Grasshopper (voice)
Dorothy Compton as Ant Queen (voice)

Production

Country: United States of America
Language: English
Studios: Walt Disney Productions
Budget: $22,120
Themes: cartoon, ant, aesop's fables, short film

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