Walt Disney, a struggling 21-year-older, with the help of friend Ub Iwerks and a handful of underpaid animators, spent six months to complete his first fully animated short cartoon called "Little Red Riding Hood." The six-minute plus work, basically a demonstration film, showed investors and distributors the high-class product his team was capable of producing.
Disney's vision of a series of cartoons, which he called Laugh-O-Grams, was to update fairy tales in a modern setting. The "Little Red Riding Hood" movie introduces Disney's first ever named character, a Felix The Cat imitation called Julius the Cat. The cat is anonymous in his debut, but Julius received his name in the follow-up cartoon, The Four Musicians of Bremen. In Disney's contemporary view, Little Red Riding Hood is delivering a bunch of donuts to her grandmother's house when she meets a lecherous man tooling around in his car. He breaks into grandma's empty home and assaults the girl when she enters the house. The cat accompanying her runs to her pilot boyfriend, who comes to the rescue with his plane.
Disney's vision of a series of cartoons, which he called Laugh-O-Grams, was to update fairy tales in a modern setting. The "Little Red Riding Hood" movie introduces Disney's first ever named character, a Felix The Cat imitation called Julius the Cat. The cat is anonymous in his debut, but Julius received his name in the follow-up cartoon, The Four Musicians of Bremen. In Disney's contemporary view, Little Red Riding Hood is delivering a bunch of donuts to her grandmother's house when she meets a lecherous man tooling around in his car. He breaks into grandma's empty home and assaults the girl when she enters the house. The cat accompanying her runs to her pilot boyfriend, who comes to the rescue with his plane.