Pigs Is Pigs (1954 film)

Pigs Is Pigs
Directed by Jack Kinney
Produced by Walt Disney
Story by Leo Salkin
Narrated by Gary Owens
Voices by Bill Thompson
The Mellomen
Music by Oliver Wallace
Animation by John Sibley
Dan MacManus (effects)
Layouts by John Wilson
Bruce Bushman
Backgrounds by Eyvind Earle
Al Dempster
Studio Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s) May 21, 1954
Color process Technicolor
Running time 9:44
Country United States
Language English

Pigs Is Pigs is a 1954 animated film by Walt Disney Studios. Based on the story "Pigs Is Pigs" by Ellis Parker Butler, it relates the tale of a railway agent and his problems with a shipment of two guinea pigs that proceed to breed rapidly. This was Gary Owens' film debut. The cartoon was animated in the flat, colorful UPA Style. The melody of the traditional Irish jig The Irish Washerwoman is repeated throughout the short.

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

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