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1954 American film

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 (1954-10-15)
Running time	6 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

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

Synopsis

A safari captures a lion in Africa, but 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.

References

Walt Disney Animation Studios short films

Lists by year

Mickey Mouse
and friends

Short series	Mickey Mouse film series (1928–2013) Donald Duck film series (1937–2024) Pluto film series (1937–51) Donald & Goofy film series (1938–47) Goofy film series (1939–2007) Chip 'n' Dale film series (1951–54) Humphrey the Bear film series (1956) How to Stay at Home (2021)
Stand-alone shorts	Donald's Decision (1942) All Together (1942) Out of the Frying Pan into the Firing Line (1942) Morris the Midget Moose (1950) Donald and the Wheel (1961) Aquamania (1961) Donald's Fire Survival Plan (1966)

Additional
short series

Laugh-O-Grams (1921–1923)
Alice Comedies (1923–27)
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (1927–28)
Silly Symphony (1929–39)
Winnie the Pooh (1966–1983)
Roger Rabbit (1989–93)
Prep & Landing (2009–11)
Short Circuit (2020–22)
At Home with Olaf (2020)
Olaf Presents (2021)

Stand-alone
short films

Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
The Thrifty Pig (1941)
Food Will Win the War (1941)
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)
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)
Once Upon a Studio (2023)

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)

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