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In the 1990s, after I saw Disney’s ‘Three Little Pigs’ in a ‘Storybook Favourites Shorts’ VHS collection of ‘Silly Symphonies’ cartoons, the next Three Little Pigs short I saw was ‘Three Little Wolves’. This happens to be the third short film to feature the Three Little Pigs.

Not the second, as I initially believed. The second one happens to be ‘The Big Bad Wolf’, which I’ve yet to see. 😀 ‘Three Little Wolves’ was released in 1936, and it’s loosely based on the story ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’. It introduces the Big Bad Wolf’s three little sons. 😮

Who knew the Big Bad Wolf got married and had kids? I wonder what happened to the mother. 😀 In the short, the Three Little Wolves are just as eager as their father for a taste of the three little pigs when they try to capture them, including Fifer Pig and Fiddler Pig. 😐

Practical Pig meanwhile has been building a contraption called the Wolf Pacifier, which he uses on the Big Bad Wolf to rescue his brothers. When Fifer Pig and Fiddler Pig get captured, the Big Bad Wolf disguises himself as Little Bo Peep and his sons as the sheep.

I’m surprised Fifer Pig and Fiddler Pig didn’t see through the Big Bad Wolf and his sons’ disguises, considering they were able to see through the Big Bad Wolf’s sheep disguise in the first ‘Three Little Pigs’ film. 😐 Apparently, there’s some symbolism featured in this film.

This includes the opening scene where the Big Bad Wolf instructs his three sons about eating pigs and they speak in German, saying things like “Ist das nicht ein Sausage Meat”. This is to reinforce the interpretation that the Big Bad Wolf is a stand-in for Adolf Hitler, apparently.

‘Three Little Wolves’ was released pre-Second World War and Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were ruling Germany at the time in 1936. That’s something I wouldn’t have picked up on when seeing this short as a kid in the 1990s. It’s fascinating to uncover that via Disney+.

When the Big Bad Wolf was being put through the Wolf Pacifier by Practical Pig, there was a moment where I could hear the notes of ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?’ being played. 🙂 This is when the Big Bad Wolf was being smashed upon the head by rolling pins.

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Bye for now!

Tim 🙂