42 years ago I first saw this short film. It feels almost the same now as it did then (I am not quite so scared of the bear but the baby rabbit still gets me). I just love it and it is a memory that has alway stayed with me. Many thanks for uploading it and many thanks to the primary school teacher that had to load the film reel into the projector to play it (I am embarrassed to say I don't remember her name). No DVD or computer. Simpler times, simpler pleasures.
How can anybody not like that little cartoon? That story is so universal: a little boy thinking he is the big man and everything he does proves that he is only a little boy Who cannot relate to that?
I'm so glad I finally found this! I always wanted to see the cartoon the character came from. (Hiawatha often appears in the Dutch Disney weekly) Thanks a lot for posting :)
thanks for posting this, when i was little i watched this all the time but when i moved i couldn't figure out what it was called and then i accidentally came upon this and i was so happy.
Heehee! His pants are to big for his wee rump. :P .. I laughed when the cricket spit in his face. xD ... The bunny! ... The bear cub! This video is too cute.
How rude of him to sail off w/out waving goodbye to his friends! In a children's book I had as a kid, telling this story, he does wave goodbye &, of course, so do they!
Is it just me, or are those the same animals from Snow White? But only more simplistic designs? Speaking of Snow White, the studio had enough financial issues funding that movie. Wouldn't they have saved money if they didn't make cartoons on the side?
these short Disney wordless cartoons were my absolute favourites, I had a tape with a collection of them, but I lost it... Now I found most of them here, what a joy! God bless RU-vid c:
I remember seeing this in my hotel in Disney World when I was a little kid. It's a cute cartoon, I'm glad to have found it again. Do they still do that, by the way? I mean, show their old cartoons on the hotel TVs in Disney World?
The animation for this beautiful little film was done by Charles Thorson. He also wrote and did the illustrations for a book, 'Keeko'. There is a book over his work called, 'Cartoon Charlie' by Gene Walz.
I love the poem in which this video was inspired...I dont think its inrespectful at all. Beautiful images, delicious music and sound...its exciting and brings back good old times
I just bought an Indian doll for my granddaughter. I'm naming her Mimihaha. My name as grandmother is MIMI. My grandmother recited the Song of Hiawatha to me all through my childhood. I truly believe I was Cherokee in a former life. I'm sending a tom-tom to my grandson and naming the Indian portrayed on it Hiawatha. Minnehaha was Hiawatha's love.
When I was little, I almost got teary-eyed when Hiawatha started shedding tears from having second thoughts about shooting the arrow at the baby bunny. I didn't understand myself at that time.
Hehe! It was killing me I couldn't think of the name of this cartoon! But I specifically remembered the boat and water and finally it came to my head! Little Hiawatha! I used to laugh about his butt when this was paired with a Pocahontas VHS. Good times, lol.
Gorgeous animation along with "The Old Mill" both produced in 1937 were probably precursors to Snow White also produced in 1937. If you haven't seen it yet, look at the Old Mill - an incredible piece of animation and an Academy Award winner as well.
Dis was also on Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: vol.13: Silly Symphonies - Facible Fables, which had same Great Mouse Detective trailer Alice in Wonderland had.
It's kinda ironic that I happened across this video a couple of days ago just when I was copying the Finnish translation of The Song of Hiawatha to my computer. Old as it is (98 years & only one edition was ever made), the Finnish translation is, in a poetic sense, a "return" translation. It was, after all, the German translation of the Finnish national epic Kalevala where Longfellow borrowed trochaic tetrameter from.
