Shorts! Silly Symphonies: The Ugly Duckling (1939)
About this episode
The episode discusses the 1939 adaptation of 'The Ugly Duckling' and compares it to its earlier version and the original fable.
Remakes are a tricky thing, especially nowadays. If the original was already good, what does remaking it offer? But when the original was already an adaptation of another work, there's always the possibility that a remake could be more faithful to that work, or even just interpret it differently. Such is the case with this final Silly Symphony, which adapts a classic fable that the series had already very loosely adapted earlier in the decade. This new adaptation not only hews closer to the source material, but boasts not only more detailed animation but also color, in comparison to the original's black and white. Does this automatically make it better? Not necessarily! Let's see how this thing holds up and determine which Ugly Duckling Silly Symphony reigns supreme!
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