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Summary

The short film begins by introducing the audience to various animals searching for food and ends by showing those animals taking shelter from the snow: the squirrels keep the nuts and corn cones in a tree, while playing with them. Crows steal them. A hedgehog gets apples from a tree. Several beavers build a dam and dance on the banks of the river. Ducks swim in the river but leave it and fly away. Beaver, skunk, crows and the hedgehog take shelter when snow falls in the forest.

Reception

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'' (August 2, 1930): "Well done, but constructed along the same lines as most cartoons, the majority of which depend on fantastic stepping by the animal characters to put it over. The musical renditions are splendid".

Home media

The short was released on December 19, 2006, on '' Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies, Volume Two''.

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* 1930 films 1930 short films 1930s Disney animated short films Silly Symphonies Films directed by Ub Iwerks Films produced by Walt Disney 1930 animated films American black-and-white films Columbia Pictures animated short films Columbia Pictures short films Animated films without speech American animated short films Animated films about beavers 1930s American films Films about corvids Films about hedgehogs Animated films about squirrels Animated films about ducks Animated films about skunks Animated films about mammals {{1930s-Disney-animation-film-stub