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Released
1942 · FILM

Horton Hatches the Egg

Directed by
Runtime
10 min
AnimationComedy

Synopsis

Horton the elephant agrees to watch over lazy Maisie bird's egg while she vacations. Much later, after the egg hatches, Horton continues to care for the tiny creature inside, despite the challenges of protecting it from those who do not believe in its existence.

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Principal cast & crew: 9

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Scored by Carl W Stalling

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