Tag: The Ugly Duckling
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The Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits | DISNEY THIS DAY | August 18, 1940
On this day in 1940, ‘The Great Walt Disney Festival of Hits’ package of films debuted at select theaters in the U.S. The release included the first re-release of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ just one year after it was retired from theaters. The lineup also included ‘Ferdinand the Bull,’ ‘The Practical Pig,’ ‘The…
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The Ugly Duckling | DISNEY THIS DAY | April 7, 1939
On this day in 1939, the 75th and final ‘Silly Symphony’ cartoon short, ‘The Ugly Duckling,’ was released. It was the second version of the short to be made by Disney, the first being released in black and white in 1931. The story follows the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale where a duckling rejected…