Peculiar Penguins is a Silly Symphonies animated Disney short film. It was released in 1934.[1]

This article consists almost entirely of a plot summary. It should be expanded to provide more balanced coverage that includes real-world context. (June 2019)

Peculiar Penguins
A frame grab from Peculiar Penguins, a Silly Symphonies short.
Directed by	Wilfred Jackson
Produced by	Walt Disney
Music by	Leigh Harline
Animation by	Art Babbitt Pete Burness Dick Huemer Hamilton Luske Archie Robin Louie Schmitt Ben Sharpsteen Frenchy de Tremaudan
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	September 1, 1934
Running time	6 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

On an island near Antarctica, a male penguin named Peter sees a female named Polly, and attempts to woo her. First he offers her an ice cream made of snow and icicle, which she accepts. Next, he tries catching her a fish, but only succeeds in catching a pufferfish. Polly accepts it graciously, but when she swallows it, she begins inflating and deflating repeatedly until Peter makes her spit out the fish, which then returns to water.

Peter shrugs in embarrassment, but feeling humiliated, Polly slaps him and leaves to swim on a small iceberg. On the shore, Peter kicks a nearby stick for letting her get away, but then notices a sharkfin moving towards Polly's iceberg. He squawks a danger warning to her, but Polly ignores him, thinking that he's just begging for forgiveness that he won't get. Soon enough, the shark attacks Polly, who swims away in panic. Needing to act, Peter picks up the stick and charges out to help.

The shark chases Polly around the bay for a while. When it looks like he has her cornered, Peter arrives and clobbers him on the nose. Enraged, the shark starts chasing after Peter. After a while of fighting and swimming away from the shark, Peter tries to escape by climbing up onto a cliff with a boulder on top. Peter unintentionally dislodges the boulder, which falls into the shark's mouth, who then swallows it. Due to the boulder's weight, the shark sinks to the bottom of the bay. The shark struggles until he's too tired to move. Passing fish begin to poke fun at him.

Meanwhile, Polly and Peter reconcile and fall in love, thus Peter's wooing succeeded. They cuddle, and their bodies form a heart-shaped silhouette on the horizon.

Comic adaptation

The Silly Symphony Sunday comic strip ran a three-month-long adaptation of Peculiar Penguins called "Penguin Isle" from July 1 to September 19, 1934.[2]

Home media

The short was released on December 4, 2001, on Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics.[3][1]

References

External links

• Peculiar Penguins at IMDb

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