| The Bird Store | |
| Director: | Wilfred Jackson |
| Producer: | Walt Disney |
| Animator: | David Hand Harry Reeves |
| Layout Artist: | Charles Philippi |
| Studio: | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributor: | Columbia Pictures |
| Color Process: | Black and white |
| Runtime: | 7 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
The Bird Store is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released on January 16, 1932, by Columbia Pictures.[1] The cartoon marks the first recorded voice work of Clarence Nash (the original voice of Donald Duck) for Walt Disney Productions, and was also the final cartoon in the Silly Symphonies series to be released by Columbia Pictures.
In a pet shop specializing in birds, various caged birds chirp along to the score in their various styles (including a set of birds that look like the Marx Brothers). A cat eyes the proceedings hungrily and makes his way in through an open transom, causing panic and an organized counterattack. The cat then becomes trapped in the cage as the birds throw the cat out and his cage lands on a flag pole in the middle of the city dog pound.
Motion Picture Herald called the film "very good".[3]
The short was released on December 19, 2006, on Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two.[1]