If anyone had told you that one of the cinema hits of 1933 would be a seven-minute cartoon feature concerning the brief adventures of three little pigs, you would have either laughed at the ridiculousness of the statement or wondered what form of insanity would cause anyone to make such a patently outrageous claim.
I doubt if any short subject, since the advent of films, has aroused more discussion than the “Three Little Pigs”; certainly there have been more than twice as many prints made of it than are made of the average successful film.
It is doubtful if, in the entire history of the cinema, the public has attended the movie theatres in such droves just to see a short subject for the first, second or third time; and in thousands upon thousands of cases people who never cared for vaudeville were willing to pay the admission to a vaudeville house to see a feature picture and an entire vaudeville hill just to be able to see this seven-minute cartoon “short”.
What are the secrets of this sensational success?
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