Two Dutch children stumble on a clearing in the woods where gnomes are going about their business. The gnomes are friendly to the children. A witch comes and takes them away on her broom to her gingerbread house, where she turns nasty on them, turning the boy into a spider, her yowling cat to stone, and tries to turn the girl into a rat when a gnome's arrow stops her. While the gnomes are fighting the witch, Hansel and Gretl free the other children who have been imprisoned and transformed by the witch.
Sound
Pinto Colvig's gnome voices before he became Goofy.
Production
Pre-Code Disney going absolutely feral with body horror.
Director
Burt Gillett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of Disney's 'Silly Symphonies' push to dominate the Oscar for animated short—a category they basically invented through sheer cultural force.
Lucille La Verne voiced the witch here AND Snow White's Evil Queen five years later, making her the undisputed queen of Disney transformation horror.
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