The 1933 Walt Disney-produced animated short The Three Little Pigs is one of 25 films added to the National Film Registry for 2007. The Library of Congress has elected to put the cartoon in the vault for preservation, along with Steven Speilberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future and other American classics spanning the history of cinema.
The Three Little Pigs offers a slightly different take on the time-honored tale of a trio of oinkers who have a disastrous run-in with a big, bad wolf. Directed by Burt Gillett, the short enjoyed a long theatrical run and won an Academy Award in 1934. In addition, its title song, ‘Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?,’ became a Depression-era anthem. In a poll conducted in the ’90s, animators voted it No. 11 in a list of the 50 best cartoons of all time.
2007 National Film Registry Inductees:
Back to the Future (1985)
Bullitt (1968)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
Grand Hotel (1932)
The House I Live In (1945)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
The Naked City (1948)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Oklahoma! (1955)
Our Day (1938)
Peege (1972)
The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
The Strong Man (1926)
Three Little Pigs (1933)
Tol’able David (1921)
Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Women (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
