Ferdinand the Bull

IMDb RATING

YOUR RATING

Hand-Drawn Animation Animation Comedy Family Short

Ferdinand is a quiet, gentle bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. After he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight.Ferdinand is a quiet, gentle bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. After he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight.Ferdinand is a quiet, gentle bull who only wants to stop and smell the flowers. After he is stung by a bee, the townspeople believe he is ferocious and take him to the bullfight.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

3.8K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win total

Photos9

+ 2

Top cast3

Edit

Don Wilson

Narrator
(voice)

Walt Disney

Ferdinand's Mother
(voice)
(uncredited)

Milt Kahl

Ferdinand
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Dick Rickard
Writers
All cast & crew
Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

More like this

7.6

Ugly Duckling

7.1

The Tortoise and the Hare

7.8

The Old Mill

7.5

Three Little Pigs

7.3

Flowers and Trees

7.6

Lambert the Sheepish Lion

6.9

7.9

7.1

7.5

7.0

7.2

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
This was the only Oscar winner for Best Short Subject (Cartoon) from the 1930s that was not a Silly Symphony.

Quotes
Matador: Whassa matta with you, you crazy bull? Fight!

Connections
Edited into For Whom the Bulls Toil (1953)

Soundtracks
Ferdinand The Bull
Written by Larry Morey and Albert Hay Malotte

User reviews18

Review

Featured review

Ferdinand did not get released quietly.

From a two-page trade-paper ad on November 2, 1938:

"WALT DISNEY'S Production of FERDINAND THE BULL. Never in all motion picture history have any but the most important feature attractions been given such nation-wide plugging!...Stories, articles, art and pictorial layouts, editorials and fashion announcements in magazines whose NET PAID CIRCULATIONS TOTAL 15, 542, 945! Look at the list already committed: LIFE...PHOTOPLAY...CUE...SCREEN GUIDE...VOGUE...MICKEY MOUSE MAGAZINE...LOOK...McCALLS...HARPER'S BAZAAR...STAGE...YOUNG America...MOVIE LIFE...LIBERTY...WOMAN'S DAY...MOVIE STORY...THEATRE ARTS...SCHOLASTIC...ROCKEFELLER CENTER WEEKLY.

Add to this a total of sixty-four licensees signed up for one hundred and two separate articles of merchandise. Big window displays everywhere. Big fashion parades in department stores. A PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN THAT CAN BE COMPARED ONLY WITH SNOW WHITE.'"

THANKSGIVING WEEK ATTRACTION AT LEADING FIRST RUNS EVERYWHERE.

NEXT Disney RELEASES * MERBABIES -Release Date, December 9 * MOTHER GOOSE GOES Hollywood - Release Date, December 23

Mr. Disney knew how to go to market.