"The Ugly Duckling (1931)"@en . "Wilfred Jackson"@en . . "The Ugly Duckling"@en . "431.0"^^ . "The film begins with a mother hen sitting on her eggs from which six baby chicks are born. Though initially overjoyed, her mood changes to disgust when the final egg hatches out a duckling. Though the duckling desperately attempts to win his foster family's acceptance, the mother hen is adamant in her refusal to care for an infant that isn't even her species, let alone not even hers. After accidentally injuring the chicks by trying to catch what he thought was a worm but instead turned out to be a buried spring, the duckling is slapped aside by the mother hen and leaves to find someone else to be his family. As with the chickens, none of the other farm animals want to raise a duckling as their own and he weeps in misery by the pond when a tornado suddenly touches down in the distance. Running back to the chickens, he successfully warns them in time for them to get to a shelter only to be locked out by them. This later turns out to be a blessing in disguise as the duckling buries under the shelter and is left behind when the tornado picks it up with the chicks still inside and dumps it in a flooded river. Despite the cruelty he suffered at their hands, the duckling dives into the river and swims out to the chicks before they can tumble over a waterfall to certain doom. By using the debris in the river, the duckling is then able to lead them safely to the shore where the chicks and the mother hen hail him as a hero and finally accept him into the family."@en . . "English"@en . . "Walt Disney Productions"@en . . "Bert Lewis"@en . "Frank Churchill"@en . . "1931-12-17"^^ . "The film begins with a mother hen sitting on her eggs from which six baby chicks are born. Though initially overjoyed, her mood changes to disgust when the final egg hatches out a duckling. Though the duckling desperately attempts to win his foster family's acceptance, the mother hen is adamant in her refusal to care for an infant that isn't even her species, let alone not even hers. After accidentally injuring the chicks by trying to catch what he thought was a worm but instead turned out to be a buried spring, the duckling is slapped aside by the mother hen and leaves to find someone else to be his family. As with the chickens, none of the other farm animals want to raise a duckling as their own and he weeps in misery by the pond when a tornado suddenly touches down in the distance. Runn"@en . . . . . "250"^^ .