7 Wise Dwarfs
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| Voices by | Pinto Colvig as "Doc" |
| Studio | Walt Disney Studios |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 3 minutes, 41 seconds |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Thrifty Pig (1941) |
| Followed by | All Together (1942) |
7 Wise Dwarfs (aka Seven Wise Dwarfs and Walt Disney's 7 Wise Dwarfs) is a 1941 four-minute educational short animated film made by the Walt Disney Studios, for the National Film Board of Canada. The film was released theatrically on December 12, 1941 as part of a series of four films directed at the Canadian public to learn about war bonds during the Second World War. 7 Wise Dwarfs was directed by Richard Lyford and Ford Beebe and featured the voice talent of Pinto Colvig as "Doc".
7 Wise Dwarfs features the seven dwarfs from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, four years after the characters made their screen debut. Quite a bit of the short consists of reused work from the 1937 Snow White film. The film short, for example, typically shows Dopey doing things in a clumsy, belated and confused fashion for slapstick effect (as in the original film). Although in production prior to the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the film is an example of a World War II propaganda film.
The seven dwarfs mining for gemstones, march past Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and then rush to a Post Office, while Dopey goes to a nearby bank instead when he finds himself locked out, and invest their gems in Canadian War Savings Certificates. All the while, the dwarfs sing a variant of the song "Heigh-Ho" (from the original film).
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