Ferdinand the Bull

Ferdinand the Bull is an animated short based on the 1936 storybook The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released on November 25, 1938 by RKO Radio Pictures.
==Summary==
In the beginning, there are a lot of bulls, romping around together and butting their heads. There was only one bull who wasn't doing that, and that was Ferdinand. All he wanted to do was go under a shady tree and smell the flowers all day. Then one day his mother noticed that he wasn't playing with the other bulls. His mom asked him why he wasn't butting his head with the other bulls. He replied that all he wanted to do was to sit and smell the flowers. Luckily, his mother was very understanding. Over the years, Ferdinand grew and grew until he was as big as the tree. The other bulls wanted to accomplish one goal in life: to be in the bullfights in Madrid, Spain, but not Ferdinand. Then one day, five strange looking men were here to see the bulls. When the bulls noticed them, they fought as rough as possible, hoping that they would get picked, but not Ferdinand who went back to smell the flowers. Just as Ferdinand was sitting, he accidentally sat on a bumblebee. That made him go crazy and on a rampage, knocking the other bulls out and crashed into a tree, making it fall down. The five men cheered as they took Ferdinand to Madrid. There was a lot of excitement when the day of the bullfight came. On posters, they called him Ferdinand the Fierce. At the ring came out banderilleros, picadors, and finally, the matador who was being cheered on. When he was bowing, a woman in the audience gave him a bouquet of flowers which landed in his hand. Then the moment came where Ferdinand came out. He was wondering what was he doing there. The banderilleros and picadors were scared and hid, but the matador was scared stiff as Ferdinand noticed the bouquet. He was coming as the matador dropped it and ran away because he thought he was going to charge at him but Ferdinand just stopped and smelled it. The banderilleros and picadors were mad and the matador was so angry that Ferdinand wasn't charging at him. Then, he was so angry that he cried because he didn't do anything and broke his sword, tore off his red cape, literally pulled out his hair, and tore open his shirt. Ferdinand noticed that he had a flower tattoo with the word "Daisy" on his chest. Ferdinand licked it as he kept on crying. Eventually, Ferdinand was dragged out of the arena for smelling the flowers and was taken back home. Then, he went back under the tree and just smelled the flowers.
==Voice cast (uncredited)==
*Milt Kahl - Ferdinand
*Larry Orenstein - Ferdinand's mother (some lines)
*Don Wilson - Narrator, Ferdinand's mother
==Awards==
Ferdinand the Bull won the 1938 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). It won against other Disney shorts: Mother Goose Goes Hollywood, Good Scouts, and Brave Little Tailor.
==Releases==
===Television===
*Donald's Quack Attack, episode #67
===Home video===
VHS
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions - How the Best Was Won: 1933-1960 (with original opening and closing titles)
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics - Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (non-U.S. release)
*Walt Disney Mini Classics: Willie the Operatic Whale
*Walt Disney's Fables: Volume 5
DVD
*Walt Disney Treasures: Disney Rarities
*Celebrate Christmas with Mickey, Donald & Friends
*Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films, Vol. 6: The Reluctant Dragon
*Walt Disney's Fables: Volume 5
===Streaming===
*Disney+, November 12, 2019
==Trivia==
*Excluding the animated short film "The Hot Choc-late Soldiers" which Disney previously did from the MGM feature film Hollywood Party in 1934, this cartoon is notable as the first ever stand-alone (one-off) animated short from Disney which is not officially part of the Silly Symphonies series. After the Silly Symphonies series ended in 1939, Disney would occasionally do stand-alone (one-off) animated shorts, such as "Chicken Little" (1943), "Lambert the Sheepish Lion" (1952), etc. amongst others on a semi-regular basis until the closure of Disney's shorts department in 1960, presumably as another training platform for the Disney studio to experiment with different processes, techniques, characters, stories, and technologies to refine and perfect its animation style for feature-length animated films similar to the main Silly Symphonies series.
*The Matador is a caricature of Walt Disney, with the other bullring workers being based on other Disney staffers.
*In 2017, another animated adaptation of Munro Leaf's book was made by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios, with John Cena as the titular bull. Disney would eventually acquire the film, along with the rest of Fox and Blue Sky's film library, hence uniting both the 1938 and 2017 animated adaptations of Munro Leaf's The Story of Ferdinand under the same roof.
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Category:Animated shorts
Category:Best Short Academy Award winners
Category:1938 shorts
Category:Academy Award winning films