Ferdinand the Bull

Name: Ferdinand the Bull
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Released: 1938-11-23
Duration: 8 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Milt Kahl, Don Wilson, Walt Disney

Ferdinand only wants to stop and smell the flowers.

Ferdinand the Bull (1938)

Timing: 0:8 (8 min)

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Video for the film Ferdinand the Bull — Ferdinand the Bull - full short film

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Release date

1938-11-23

Country

United States

Production

Walt Disney Productions

Genre

Animation, Comedy, Family

Budget

$66 260

Box office

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Director

Dick Rickard

Actors

Milt Kahl, Don Wilson, Walt Disney
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Scenario

Producer

Walt Disney

Camera operator

Composer

Albert Hay Malotte

Artist

Bernard Garbutt, Hamilton Luske, Don Lusk

Audition

Editing

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Short description

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.

What's left behind the scenes

The matadors are caricatures of Disney animators. In order of their appearance on screen, they are Bill Tytla (1904-1968) on horseback, Fred Moore (1911-1952), Art Babbitt (1907-1992), Hamilton Luske (1903-1968), and Jack Campbell (1896-1961).