a walt disney silly symphony cartoon short . worry about have enough food to fee her family come wintertime and the wise little hen decide to plant a field of corn . her idle friend and peter pig and donald duck and decline to help with the planting or the harvesting leave the little chicken to plan her sweet revenge . this be a very fine adaptation of the childhood story and with a strong and self reliant title character ( voice by florence gill ) . but the reason this be a landmark cartoon be because it be the debut of the irascible and anti social and temperamental and infuriating and utterly lovable duck and a character so strong he would soon eclipse mickey mouse himself . with voice courtesy of the inimitable clarence nash and donald would become one of the world most popular personality and a source of never end fascination for those who study anti social behavior and it consequence . fate would not be so kind to peter pig . although his debut be just as conspicuous a the duck and he lack that certain intangible quality which would set him apart from the common swine . hollywood can be a cruel place and peter attempt to build a movie career he work for a while a porky pig stunt double prove a failure . when last heard of and peter pig be live in a small apartment over a garage in pomona and california . the silly symphony and which walt disney produce for a ten year period beginning in 1929 and be among the most fascinating of all animated series . unlike the mickey mouse cartoon in which action be paramount and with the symphony the action be make to fit the music . there be little plot in the early symphony and which feature lively inanimate object and anthropomorphic plant and animal and all move frantically to the soundtrack . gradually and however and the symphony become the school where walt animator learn to work with color and begin to experiment with plot and characterization and photographic special effect . the page of fable and fairy tale and myth and mother goose be all mine to provide story line and even hollywood musical and celebrity be effectively spoof . it be from this rich soil that disney feature length animation be to spring . in 1939 and with snow white successfully behind him and pinocchio and fantasia on the near horizon and walt phase out the silly symphony while they have run their course and serve their purpose .