Babes in the Woods

This article is about the Silly Symphonies animated film. For the children's tale, see Babes in the Wood. For other uses, see Babes in the Wood (disambiguation).
Babes in the Woods
Silly Symphonies series
Directed by Burt Gillett
Produced by Walt Disney
Voices by Pinto Colvig
Lucille La Verne
Music by Bert Lewis
Studio Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by United Artists
Release date(s)
  • November 19, 1932 (1932-11-19)
Color process Technicolor
Running time 8 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Preceded by Bugs in Love
Followed by Santa's Workshop

Babes in the Woods is a 1932 Silly Symphonies animated film.

It is a re-working of the British folk tale Babes in the Wood, with some material incorporated from Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, and the addition of a village of friendly elves (a feature not traditionally present in either tale), and a happier ending.

Plot

"Once upon a time, a story was told about fairies, goblins, and witches of old. They haunted the forests and meadows and dells, and this is the legend the storybooks tell: Oh, don't you remember a long time ago? When two little babes, whose names I don't know. They wandered away on a fine summers day, and were lost in a wood, I've heard people say."

Hansel and Gretel stumble on a clearing in the woods where elves are going about their business. The elves are friendly to the children. Until a witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning Hansel into a spider ("Lotus and cider! I'll change you into a spider!"), a yowling child-turned-cat to stone ("Fe, fi, bone! I'll change you to stone!"), and tries to turn Gretel into a rat ("Why, you little brat! I'll change you into a rat!") when an elf's arrow stops her. While the elves are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretel free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed into animals (lizards/newts, rats, spiders, cats, and bats) by the witch. Finally, the witch falls from her broom and lands in a cauldron containing a brew that turns living things to stone, and becomes a large rock, which would be known as the Witch Rock.

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