The Pied Piper

1933 NR 8m 6.6

When the Pied Piper lures the rats from Hamelin Town but is not paid in gold by the mayor as promised, he lures all the children of the town to the magical Garden of Happiness in a mountain to punish the parents.

The people of Hamelin, overrun with rats, offer a bag of gold to anyone who can get rid of the rats. A piper offers to do the job, and successfully lures the rats into a mirage of cheese, which disappears. The citizens, disappointed that all he did was play a tune, offer only pocket change. The piper, angered, plays a new tune that has all the children of the city follow him, even the new twins the stork is preparing to deliver.

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Info about The Pied Piper

Studio(s): Walt Disney Productions

Originally Released: Sep 16, 1933

Production Country: United States

Budget: $17,145.00

Genres: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Short