Brave Little Tailor

This article is about the 1938 film. For the original fairy tale, see The Brave Little Tailor.
Brave Little Tailor
Title card
Directed byBill Roberts
Burt Gillett
Story byJoe Grant
Produced byWalt Disney
Starring
  • Walt Disney
  • Eddie Holden
  • Billy Sheets[1]
Music byAlbert Hay Malotte
Animation byLes Clark
Ollie Johnston
Fred Moore
Don Patterson
Milt Schaffer
Frank Thomas
Riley Thompson
Bill Tytla
Don Williams
Jack Campbell (effects)
Andy Engman (effects)
Tony Garth (effects)
John Noel Tucker (effects)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • September 23, 1938 (1938-09-23)[2]
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Brave Little Tailor is a 1938 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures, being shown in theaters with Fugitives for a Night. It is an adaptation of the fairy tale The Valiant Little Tailor with Mickey Mouse in the title role. It was directed by Bill Roberts and Burt Gillett and features original music by Albert Hay Malotte.[3] The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey, and Eddie Holden as the Giant. It was the 103rd short in the Mickey Mouse film series to be released, and the fifth for that year.[4]

The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 11th Academy Awards in 1939 but lost to Ferdinand the Bull, another short by Disney. In 1994, it was listed as the 26th greatest cartoon of all time by members of the animation field in a list compiled for the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons.[5]

  1. ^ Scott, Keith (3 October 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media.
  2. ^ Kaufman, J.B.; Gerstein, David (2018). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse: The Ultimate History. Cologne: Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8365-5284-4.
  3. ^ "Brave Little Tailor". www.bcdb.com, April 12, 2012
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 107–109. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  5. ^ Beck, Jerry (1994). The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals. Turner Publishing. ISBN 978-1878685490.