The Pied Piper

The Pied Piper is a Silly Symphony that was released on September 16, 1933.
==Synopsis==
In the city of Hamelin, there is a large population of rats that keeps growing and eating all the food in sight. The mayor offers to pay a bag of gold to whoever can get rid of the rats. At that moment, the Pied Piper shows up and offers his services. By playing a tune on his pipe, he hypnotizes the rodents to follow him out of Hamelin. Then he creates a wheel of cheese with his pipe, tempting the mice to go in and eat it, and once all of the mice were in the holes of the cheese, he makes it vanish.
When he returns to the town, the mayor refuses to pay him the bag of gold because he just played a pipe, and gives him one coin, while the other adults laugh at him. Furious, the Pied Piper decides to get revenge and save the children from growing up to be as bad as the adults by taking them away.
The mayor and adults dismiss him, since they locked the town gate after the rats left and no one can get out. However, the Piper not only charms the children into following him but enchants the town gate into ripping itself open and allowing the children to leave, and the Mayor is left to face the wrath of the adults for the loss of their children, much to his horror. The Piper leads the children to the mountains and an enchanted land with fun and games, where they all live happily ever after.
==Characters==
*The Pied Piper (voiced by George Gramlich)
*The Mayor of Hamelin (voiced by Allan Watson)
==Releases==
===Television===
*The Mickey Mouse Club, December 26, 1955
*The Mickey Mouse Club, February 14, 1957
*The New Mickey Mouse Club, episode D-087, May 16, 1978
*Good Morning, Mickey, episode #45
*Jiminy Cricket: Storyteller
*The Ink and Paint Club, episode #1.7: "Storybook Silly Symphonies"
*Treasures from the Disney Vault, June 28, 2016
===Home video===
VHS
*Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Limited Gold Editions II: The Disney Dream Factory: 1933-1938
*Walt Disney's Fables: Volume 4
DVD
*Walt Disney Animation Collection: Classic Short Films: The Prince & the Pauper
*Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
*Walt Disney's Fables: Volume 4
===Streaming===
*Disney+, November 12, 2019
==Gallery==
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Category:Animated shorts
Category:Silly Symphonies
Category:1933 shorts