The Grasshopper and the Ants (film)

The Grasshopper and the Ants
Silly Symphony series
Hop entertains the ant colony after they take him in during the winter
Directed by	Wilfred Jackson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Story by	William Cottrell
Voices by	Pinto Colvig
Music by	Leigh Harline
Animation by	Art Babbitt Dick Huemer Albert Hurter
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date(s)	February 10, 1934 (1934-02-10) (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	8 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	The China Shop
Followed by	Funny Little Bunnies

The Grasshopper and the Ants is a 1934 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. Part of the Silly Symphonies series, the film is an adaptation of The Ant and the Grasshopper, one of Aesop's Fables. It was directed by Wilfred Jackson and stars Pinto Colvig as the voice of the grasshopper "Hop."

The film introduced the song "The World Owes Me a Living" (later "I Owe the World a Living") by Leigh Harline which later became associated with the character Goofy who was also voiced by Colvig. According to Leonard Maltin on the Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies DVD, this was an early example of the idea of having a character turn blue with cold, when full-spectrum Technicolor was still new at the time.

Plot

The grasshopper is playing his fiddle, dancing and eating leaves. He notices some ants working hard collecting food. He laughs and calls an ant to him. He tells the ant that there is food on every tree and he sees no reason to work. He dances and sings The world owes us a living. The ant begins to dance too. The queen ant arrives, carried in a sedan chair, and sees the ant playing instead of working. The ant notices the queen and immediately goes back to work. The angry queen warns the grasshopper that he will change his tune when winter comes. The grasshopper blithely dismisses the queen's warning, saying that winter is a long way off.

Autumn passes and winter arrives. The grasshopper trudges through the snow, cold and hungry. He finds one withered leaf, but it blows away before he can eat it. Meanwhile, the ants are feasting on their stored food. The grasshopper knocks on their door and collapses. The ants carry him inside and warm and feed him. The queen ant approaches him. He begs to be allowed to stay. She tells him that only those who work may stay, and tells him to take his fiddle. Thinking that he is being dismissed, he starts to leave, but the queen tells him to play the fiddle. While the ants dance, he happily plays and sings I owe the world a living!

Home video release

Silly Symphonies (DVD) 2001
Walt Disney's Timeless Tales Volume 1: The Prince and the Pauper/Three Little Pigs/The Tortoise and the Hare (DVD) 2005
Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films Volume 5: Wind in the Willows (DVD) 2009

Voices

Pinto Colvig - Hop the Grasshopper

References

External links

The Grasshopper and the Ants at the Internet Movie Database
The Grasshopper and the Ants at The Big Cartoon DataBase
The Grasshopper and the Ants at The Encyclopedia of Animated Disney Shorts

Silly Symphony film series

Shorts	The Skeleton Dance (1929) El Terrible Toreador (1929) Springtime (1929) Hell's Bells (1929) The Merry Dwarfs (1929) Summer (1930) Autumn (1930) Cannibal Capers (1930) Frolicking Fish (1930) Arctic Antics (1930) Midnight in a Toy Shop (1930) Night (1930) Monkey Melodies (1930) Winter (1930) Playful Pan (1930) Birds of a Feather (1931) Mother Goose Melodies (1931) The China Plate (1931) The Busy Beavers (1931) The Cat's Out (1931) Egyptian Melodies (1931) The Clock Store (1931) The Spider and the Fly (1931) The Fox Hunt (1931) The Ugly Duckling (1931) The Bird Store (1932) The Bears and the Bees (1932) Just Dogs (1932) Flowers and Trees (1932) King Neptune (1932) Bugs in Love (1932) Babes in the Woods (1932) Santa's Workshop (1932) Birds in the Spring (1933) Father Noah's Ark (1933) The Three Little Pigs (1933) Old King Cole (1933) Lullaby Land (1933) The Pied Piper (1933) The Night Before Christmas (1933) The China Shop (1934) The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934) Funny Little Bunnies (1934) The Big Bad Wolf (1934) The Wise Little Hen (1934) The Flying Mouse (1934) Peculiar Penguins (1934) The Goddess of Spring (1934) The Tortoise and the Hare (1935) The Golden Touch (1935) The Robber Kitten (1935) Water Babies (1935) The Cookie Carnival (1935) Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935) Music Land (1935) Three Orphan Kittens (1935) Cock o' the Walk (1935) Broken Toys (1935) Elmer Elephant (1936) Three Little Wolves (1936) Toby Tortoise Returns (1936) Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936) The Country Cousin (1936) Mother Pluto (1936) More Kittens (1936) Woodland Café (1937) Little Hiawatha (1937) The Old Mill (1937) Moth and the Flame (1938) Wynken, Blynken, and Nod (1938) Farmyard Symphony (1938) Merbabies (1938) Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) The Practical Pig (1939) The Ugly Duckling (1939)

Directors	Jack Cutting Walt Disney Burt Gillett David Hand Rudolf Ising Ub Iwerks Wilfred Jackson Ben Sharpsteen Vernon Stallings

Book Category

Aesop

Aesop's Fables	The Ant and the Grasshopper The Ass and his Masters The Ass and the Pig The Ass Carrying an Image The Ass in the Lion's Skin The Astrologer who Fell into a Well The Bear and the Travelers The Belly and the Members The Bird-catcher and the Blackbird The Bird in Borrowed Feathers The Boy Who Cried Wolf The Cat and the Mice The Cock and the Jewel The Cock, the Dog and the Fox The Crow and the Pitcher The Crow and the Snake The Deer without a Heart The Dog and Its Reflection The Dog and the Wolf The Dove and the Ant The Farmer and the Stork The Farmer and the Viper The Fir and the Bramble The Fisherman and the Little Fish The Fowler and the Snake The Fox and the Crow The Fox and the Grapes The Fox and the Mask The Fox and the Sick Lion The Fox and the Stork The Fox and the Weasel The Fox and the Woodman The Frog and the Ox The Frogs Who Desired a King The Goat and the Vine The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs The Honest Woodcutter The Horse and the Donkey The Lion and the Fox The Lion and the Mouse The Lion, the Bear and the Fox The Man with two Mistresses The Mischievous Dog The Miser and his Gold The Mountain in Labour The Mouse and the Oyster The North Wind and the Sun The Oak and the Reed The Old Man and Death The Old Woman and the Doctor The Rose and the Amaranth The Satyr and the Traveller The Sick Kite The Snake and the Crab The Snake in the Thorn Bush The Tortoise and the Hare Town Mouse and Country Mouse The Travellers and the Plane Tree The Trees and the Bramble The Two Pots The Walnut Tree Washing the Ethiopian white The Wolf and the Crane The Wolf and the Lamb The Woodcutter and the Trees The Young Man and the Swallow

Apocryphal	An ass eating thistles The Bear and the Gardener Belling the cat (also known as The Mice in Council) The Blindman and the Lame The Boy and the Filberts Chanticleer and the Fox The Dog in the Manger The drowned woman and her husband The Elm and the Vine The Fox and the Cat The Gourd and the Palm-tree The Hawk and the Nightingale Jumping from the frying pan into the fire The milkmaid and her pail The miller, his son and the donkey The Monkey and the Cat The Priest and the Wolf The Scorpion and the Frog The Shepherd and the Lion Still waters run deep The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Related	Perry Index The labyrinth of Versailles The Lion's Share

Screen adaptations	Aesop's Film Fables The Grasshopper and the Ants

Print adaptations	Ysopet The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian "The Taill of the Cok and the Jasp" "The Taill of how this forsaid Tod maid his Confessioun to Freir Wolf Waitskaith" "The Taill of Schir Chanticleir and the Foxe" "The Taill of the Uponlandis Mous and the Burges Mous" La Fontaine's Fables

Translators	Demetrius of Phalerum Phaedrus Babrius Avianus Dositheus Magister Alexander Neckam Adémar de Chabannes Odo of Cheriton John Lydgate Kawanabe Kyōsai Laurentius Abstemius Roger L'Estrange Gabriele Faerno Hieronymus Osius Marie de France Robert Henryson Jean de La Fontaine Ivan Krylov Nicolas Trigault Zhang Geng Robert Thom Zhou Zuoren

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