| Social Lion | |
| Director: | Jack Kinney |
| Producer: | Walt Disney |
| Story: | Milt Schaffer and Dick Kinney |
| Starring: | Stan Freberg, Paul Frees, James MacDonald |
| Music: | Oliver Wallace |
| Animator: | Norman Ferguson |
| Layout Artist: | Bruce Bushman |
| Background Artist: | Thelma Witmer |
| Studio: | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributor: | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Runtime: | 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.[1]
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.
The DVD "Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts: 1920s–1960s" featured this short.[2]