Ferdinand the Bull

Ferdinand the Bull

8 mins | Comedy, Animation, Family | Nov. 23, 1938

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.

Ferdinand the Bull

8 mins | Comedy, Animation, Family | Nov. 23, 1938

Ferdinand the Bull
This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Walt Disney Productions
Original title Ferdinand the Bull
Directors Thor Putnam, Ken Anderson, Ford Beebe, Dick Rickard
Writers Martin Provensen, Vernon Stallings, Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson

Cast

Milt Kahl

as Ferdinand (voice)

Don Wilson

as Narrator (voice)

Walt Disney

as Ferdinand's Mother (voice)