Little Red Riding Hood (1922)

Name: Little Red Riding Hood
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family
Released: 1922-01-01

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Plot.

Mother is making donuts: She throws up a circle of dough, and a cat shoots a hole in it. Later, he fishes them out of the oil with a fishing line; he eats one, and loses all 9 lives. Mother puts together a basket for Red to take to granny. Red uses her cart, which is pushed by her little dog; the cart gets a flat tire, and she inflates a donut to replace it. A wolf (a human lothario) drives by in a flivver, and dashes off to grandma's house, where he finds a note saying she's gone to the movies. He shrinks his car and stashes it in his pocket, then waits for Red, who stopped to watch a dancing flower. Red arrives, and they go into the house, where he attempts to have his way with her. The dog rushes off and gets help from an airplane pilot, who uses a skyhook to remove the house and, ultimately, lift the wolf in his car and drop him in the lake. Written by Jon Reeves

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Cast & Crew.

Walt Disney

Director

Charles Parrault

Writer

Fred Harmon

Animation

Charles Perrault

Writer

Rudolf Ising

Animation

Walt Pfeiffer

Writer

Red Lyon

Cinematographer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1922

Status
Released

Running Time
6m

Genres
Animation Comedy Kids & Family

Last updated: 2025-02-10

Wiki.

Little Red Riding Hood is a short animated film by Walt Disney that is a rendition of the traditional story of Little Red Riding Hood. The film is part of the Laugh-O-Grams series that was released in 1922. This is one of the first cartoons by Disney, and considered to be Disney's first attempt at animated storytelling. Rather than using animation cels, it was made mostly by photographing inked lines on paper. The film was considered to be lost for many years and it was listed in 1980 on the American Film Institute's "10 Most Wanted Films for Archival Preservation". A print of the film was discovered by British collector David Wyatt in a London film library in 1998 and was restored the same year.

The film introduces the first appearance of Julius the Cat, who would become Disney's first named, recurring character.: 302 Julius would last appear in Alice the Beach Nut. A second American short film with the same title was also released in 1922 which starred Baby Peggy.