The Little Pigs and the Big Good Wolf

The Little Pigs and the Big Good Wolf (1963-???), is a short series by an animator named Timothy Groen and is available on 16mm film reels. It was apparently made with traditional cel animation.

In this ironic retelling of the three little pigs, and its sequels, a philanthropist wolf donates money to the town of the pigs in order to develop a central housing authority and safety standards. It is eventually revealed that the big good wolf is actually the brother of the Big Bad Wolf, and is only exacting revenge against his brother for an unsettled debt. The safety standards he develops and implements end up turning the town into a locked-up pigfarm for his own exclusive use, but he has in the meantime developed friendships with the pigs and ultimately becomes their sworn friend and protector.

As of this article, little is known about the number of copies made or its history. There are no identifying animation studio marks or credits other than the title frames including the film title and the author, and the words "DIRECTED BY Shamus Culhane " at the title sequence in the short "The Promise". Six films, each about 12 minutes long, dated from 1963 to 1965, were recently sold on ebay in a batch of miscellaneous 16mm reels. They form a contiguous story but little is known about the completeness of the set.

The titles of each film and dates are as follows.

Titles and Dates
* "The Town of the Pigs" (1963), 11 mins 27 secs (title to end of reel)
* "The Wolf comes Knocking" (1963), 11 mins, 17 secs
* "The Promise" (1963), 11 mins, 39 secs
* "The Big Bad Wolf" (1964), 11 mins, 33 secs
* "Brotherhood" (1965), 12 mins, 7 secs
* "Reckoning" (1965), 12 mins, 11 secs

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