Social Lion

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Social Lion

Directed by	Jack Kinney
Story by	Milt Schaffer and Dick Kinney
Produced by	Walt Disney
Starring	Stan Freberg, Paul Frees, James MacDonald
Music by	Oliver Wallace
Animation by	Norman Ferguson
Layouts by	Bruce Bushman
Backgrounds by	Thelma Witmer
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	October 15, 1954
Running time	6 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Social Lion is a 1954 Walt Disney-produced animated short film directed by Jack Kinney. The short was released by Buena Vista on October 15, 1954. The film was written by Milt Schaffer and Dick Kinney and animated by Norman Ferguson. ^[1]

Synopsis[]

A safari captures a lion in Africa. However, the lion's cage falls off the boat once it arrives in the US. The lion gets out of the cage but fails to intimidate anyone, even several people interact with it in places such as a bus or a bar. In the end, the lion is captured by a group of policemen and taken to a zoo.

Cast[]

Stan Freberg - Lion (uncredited)
Paul Frees - Lions Club President / Drunkards / Clothing Salesman (voice) (uncredited)
James MacDonald - Lion (roaring) (voice) (uncredited)

Home media[]

The DVD "Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts: 1920s–1960s" featured this short.^[2]

References[]

v t Walt Disney Animation Studios short films
Mickey Mouse and friends	Mickey Mouse (film series) Pluto filmography Donald Duck filmography Goofy filmography Chip 'n' Dale filmography Humphrey the Bear filmography
Additional series	Laugh-O-Grams (1921–23) Alice Comedies (1923–27) Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–28) Silly Symphonies (1929–39) Winnie the Pooh (1966-1983) Roger Rabbit (1989–93) Prep & Landing (2009–11) Short Circuit (2020) At Home with Olaf (2020)
Stand-alone films	Ferdinand the Bull (1938) The Thrifty Pig (1941) Food Will Win the War (1941) All Together (1942) Stop That Tank! (1942) Chicken Little (1943) The Grain That Built a Hemisphere (1943) Education for Death (1943) Reason and Emotion (1943) The Pelican and the Snipe (1944) The Brave Engineer (1950) Morris the Midget Moose (1950) Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1952) Susie the Little Blue Coupe (1952) The Little House (1952) Ben and Me (1953) Melody (1953) Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953) Football Now and Then (1953) Social Lion (1954) Pigs Is Pigs (1954) A Cowboy Needs a Horse (1956) Jack and Old Mac (1956) The Truth About Mother Goose (1957) The Story of Anyburg U.S.A. (1957) Paul Bunyan (1958) Noah's Ark (1959) Goliath II (1960) The Saga of Windwagon Smith (1961) It's Tough to Be a Bird (1969) The Small One (1978) Vincent (1982) Fun with Mr. Future (1982) Oilspot and Lipstick (1987) Off His Rockers (1992) John Henry (2000) Destino (2003) Lorenzo (2004) One by One (2004) The Little Matchgirl (2006) Glago's Guest (2008) Tick Tock Tale (2010) The Ballad of Nessie (2011) Paperman (2012) Feast (2014) Inner Workings (2016) Us Again (2021) Far from the Tree (2021)
Based on feature films	7 Wise Dwarfs (1941) Casey Bats Again (1954) A Dairy Tale (2004, direct-to-video) Super Rhino (2009, direct-to-video) Tangled Ever After (2012) Frozen Fever (2015) Olaf's Frozen Adventure (2017) Once Upon a Snowman (2020)