Walt Disney - Silly Symphonies - The Ugly Duckling (1931)

[teejaynumber13]

So technically, shouldn't this be called "The Ugly Chicken?"

[carmelanneor]

~~~ Hmmmmmmmm,,,Just as well I believe in Miracles!,,,heh,heh,,,,,how else could a 'choock' give birth to a 'duck' that turns into a 'swan'? ,,,,lol,,,, ~~~

[Kartoonkid95]

A hen giving birth to a ducking?

[josenildosn]

Kjjnjnj

[deusirae76]

Some people here should stop bitching about this cartoon being racist, the duck might just be a baby mallard.

[AudioSanctuary]

@deusirae76 No kidding, the animators simply had to differentiate between a chicken and a duck and chicks are always light colored.

[WraythSkitzofrenik]

Cutie!

Doesn't make sense for the original story...chickens?

[ThatPurplyThing]

That's a chicken. Not a duck.

[bdwriley]

Why does he ugly duckling has to be black? RACIST BASTARDS!

[thebaybmonster]

i think the mother is bi-polar......she doesnt deserve that duckling......

[steinmetzj22]

bitch of a hen smackin her kid around

[RectumPilum]

I love how the black one looks like my brother.

[tuamigajordana]

I fucking cried while watching it!!! T.T

[vozpit]

Always known about this version, but never saw it. Thanks for posting!

[acla9000]

I didn't know Disney had done this 'Duckling' before his best-known version (1939), so thank you very much for posting!!

[SuperPyst]

The lesson: if you are different from the group then you wont be accepted until you save their lives.

[leela145]

A cartoon like this warms your heart! 

[nastyfukker]

this is where it happened, this was the introduction of pathos into the animated cartoon that Walt Disney had been aiming for, that brought his cartoons to a level above any others, & they would keep getting better too. But it was Dick Lundy who did it first, and this is where he did it, with this simple little duck here

[nastyfukker]

if not for this here duck of Lundys, there would have been no Dumbo, no flying mouse even, no Lambert or Ferdinand. elmer too, no elmer

[nastyfukker]

I mean, this cartune may have not been all that big at the box office, but for Disney studios it was a freakin epiphiny

[DudeOpen]

@nastyfukker you misspelled cartoon and epiphany-_-

[nastyfukker]

@DudeOpen awww, did i do that? welllll excuuuse me, sorry that i hurt your feeling. Maybe I should follow the rules closer, right, cause we all know how nobody mispells on the internet, right? sure thing

[DudeOpen]

@nastyfukker who doesnt know how to spell cartoon raise your hands.

[DudeOpen]

@nastyfukker ok first off, cartoon was way off. a third grade vocab i believe. might even be second. misspelling epiphany may be understandable, but not cartoon. youre just bad lol

[mikeeG77]

What are they - ducks or chickens?

[auntlolo86]

LOVED how it ended! He seemed like the big brother taking care of his baby sisters. Too sweet!

[meekamercieca]

i watched this without sound, and i liked it. :)

[npsari1]

Bad mom, what if her duckling doesn't look nice! She should still love him.

[elohel9dalton]

@npsari1 its just the 30's, back when a LOT of things where different.

[MWolfL]

@npsari1

If you want a version that has that, watch the Modern Classics of Hans Christian Andersen. The mom is a lot nicer, and the ending is very satisfactory.

[randomthingsstudios]

oh i like this one :)

[totothepuppydog]

3:33 I love how only the pigs are oblivious to the tornado. xD

[skeliful]

Un chef-d'oeuvre !

[davidtimof]

This is not as cool as the 1939 one , but this one is sadder tho . Both are , if you let me think

[deusirae76]

@davidtimof The 1939 one is sadder imo. There's something heroic about the 1931 one, the 1939 one is just a series of humiliations. Both are great anyway.

[LFirstbasema]

There's Clarabelle Cow! 2:38

[lucky13sl]

at 2:41, its like he is saying to the cow: MOM? and the cow is like: NOOOOO! :P

[wildcat2k6]

Thats a shame. The Ugly Duckling wasn't ugly, he was just black. Isn't that some racist bull....

[atincontin]

I KNOW HOW IT FEELS.

I am a bird. Tuit, tuit.