The Three Little Pigs (1933) is an Academy Award winning Disney short from the Silly Symphony series. The film was a landmark success for the studio during the Great Depression and cemented “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” as one of Disney’s most famous songs. | Disney History Channel

The original Three Little Pigs short was released by Disney in 1933, during the Great Depression, and became one of the studio’s biggest hits. The cartoon told the fable with catchy music and polished animation, but in its first release the Big Bad Wolf was portrayed in disguise as a stereotypical Jewish peddler, complete with a hooked nose, beard, hat, and Yiddish accent. This was no accident — antisemitic caricatures were common across American and European media at the time, often recycling o