Name/Title
Toy, Ferdinand the BullEntry/Object ID
2021.2.85.47Description
The latex Ferdinand toy, manufactured by Seiberling of Akron, Ohio, is a movie tie in from the animated film Ferdinand the Bull, which Louis Bromfield worked on. This bull has some wear in terms of both the coloring and a missing horn and tail. Some versions of this toy are shown with a flower in Ferdinand's mouth, but there is no evidence of that in this item.Context
Louis Bromfield wrote the script for Walt Disney's very successful Walt Disney cartoon "Ferdinand the Bull" (1938). This project was a collaboration between Walt Disney and Bromfield. They adapted the children's book The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf; Bromfield wrote the script, and Disney oversaw the animation.
In 1938 Walt Disney debuted "Ferdinand the Bull," a short film based on the book "The Story of Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf. The short became an instant classic and was televised around the world. Ferdinand became a 2017 American computer-animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Although Leaf had written the original book, Disney hired Mansfield's Louis Bromfield to write the screen adaptation. Ferdinand the Bull. Ferdinand the Bull won the 1938 Oscar for Best Short Subject. Two of the original film cells were framed and given to Bromfield by Walt Disney and are hanging in the daughters' sitting room in the Big House at Malabar Farm.Location
Room
Daughters' Sitting RoomBuilding
The Big HouseOhio State Park
Malabar Farm State Park
