The Library of Congress has named 25 more motion pictures to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, including the classic Disney short, “Three Little Pigs.”

Each year the Librarian of Congress, with advice from the National Film Preservation Board, names 25 films to the National Film Registry to be preserved for all time. The films are chosen because they are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. This year’s selections bring to 475 the number of motion pictures in the registry.

Three Little Pigs (1933)
Voted the 11th-best cartoon of all time in a 1990s poll of animators, “Three Little Pigs” falls midway through a series of classic shorts (“Skeleton Dance,” “The Band Concert,” “The Old Mill,”) that Walt Disney produced as he learned and refined the art of animation; each film marked another development in his path toward the 1937 feature “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” The wildly popular “Three Little Pigs” proved a landmark in “personality animation”— each of the three pigs had a different personality—and the title tune “Who’s Afraid of
the Big Bad Wolf” became a Depression-era anthem.

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