Chicken Little
Disney ’s liven filmChicken Littleisn’t just a retelling of the fable " Henny cent " : it ’s also an adaptation of a 1943 anti - Nazi propaganda movie by the same name . Released in 2005,Chicken Littlewas Disney ’s first full computer - animate moving-picture show and was aBox Office hit , being one of the highest - grossing releases of the year . The story centers on a young Gallus gallus who believe the sky is falling . While aspect of the story are recognizable from the original allegory , there are further element ofChicken Littletaken directly from the 1943 propaganda little .
In the other 1940s , Walt Disney joined the war effort by producing alive drawers intended to grow morale and spread patriotic ideology . Theattack on Pearl Harbor in World War IIhad a direct encroachment on the visionary ’s plastic film studio apartment ; according to the bookThe Magic Kingdom : Walt Disney and the American Way of Life , the day after the Nipponese tone-beginning , 500 U.S. United States Army troops occupied the studio , using it as a base of mathematical process in ordination to protect a nearby aircraft product facility . Disney was draw near to produceWWII filmsfor the U.S. military , and the studio went on to make films for training purposes , to increase esprit de corps among the troops and the citizens , and to promote and kick upstairs propaganda messaging .
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The1943 Disney little movieChicken Littleis a 9 - bit farsighted animation that subverts the original fable ’s message , becoming a admonitory tarradiddle against aggregated - hysteria and disobeying sureness . The " Henny Penny " fable , sometimes referred to as " Chicken Little " or " Chicken Licken , " is a moral - based tribe tale about a chicken who mistakenly believe the sky is falling after being struck in the head by an acorn . The most common understanding of the story is that it warns against being a " chicken " — i.e. lacking courageousness ; however , the folk story live in many grade , and some are more clear a warning against aggregative hysteria . The latter interpretation is used by the Disney short , but with the added allegorical association to extraneous interference and the Nazi government .
poulet Little(1943 ) focus not on a niggling chicken who make a mistake , but rather a conniving fox who employ a Word of God of " psychological science " ( in the original program , the book wasMein Kampf ) to trick Chicken Little and the rest of the bird into leaving the safety of the poultry farm . Foxy Loxy fulfill this by whispering through the fencing hole , disguising himself as one of each mathematical group ( the gossipy biddy , the bookish Turkey , etc . ) . He subtly convinces the universe to reject its knowing leadership , Cocky Locky , and alternatively follow the advice of Chicken Little , who Foxy is well able to pull wires because the immature wench miss intelligence activity . In the final stage , the dodger eat on them all ( except Cocky Locky ) and arranges their wishbone in rows resembling a war grave accent site .
Like the original parable , both the 1943 little and the 2005 feature cinema characteristic fauna characters ( mostly birds ) with rhyme names like " Henny Penny " and " Foxy Loxy . " While there are a number of narrative aspects taken from the fable , the societal structure of 2005’sChicken Littlemore closely resemble thepropaganda film ; what is more , the aesthetic used forChicken Little(2005 ) is clearly inspired by Disney ’s 1940s celluloid . Not only is the setting stylized as 1940s and ' 50s Americana — evinced by the characters being dressed in geological period clothing and the pic ’s inclusion body of baseball acculturation — but , according toComputer Graphics World , the animating team took inspiration from Disney ’s ' forty and ' 50s animation stylus , particularly the 1942 Goofy filmHow To Play baseball game . WhileChicken Little(1943 ) is n’t cite by name , it ’s intemperate to believe that the esthetic connection to the propaganda moving-picture show is mere coincidence , peculiarly since the two portion a title — and as Foxy warn at the terminal of the unretentive , " do n’t believe everything you show . "
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