When the story begins, a mother chicken anxiously awaits her chicks hatching. However, oddly, one of the babies is a gosling....and the mother and her chicks instantly hate it because it's so different. In time, the gosling is able to prove its worth.
The 1939 version of "The Ugly Duckling" by Disney is a beautiful short film. However, back in 1931, the studio also made an earlier version of this story. Apart from making the original in black & white instead of color, the other big difference is that in the 1931 version, they changed the story...making the goose baby born in a nest of chicks, not ducklings. Until the end of the story, I had no idea why the studio made that choice...but the way the film ended made sense for this change.
Overall, a modestly entertaining short film but which also pales by comparison to the later much prettier version which sticks closer to the traditional tale.
The 1939 version of "The Ugly Duckling" by Disney is a beautiful short film. However, back in 1931, the studio also made an earlier version of this story. Apart from making the original in black & white instead of color, the other big difference is that in the 1931 version, they changed the story...making the goose baby born in a nest of chicks, not ducklings. Until the end of the story, I had no idea why the studio made that choice...but the way the film ended made sense for this change.
Overall, a modestly entertaining short film but which also pales by comparison to the later much prettier version which sticks closer to the traditional tale.