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Volume XII, No. 7
FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
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of his long beard. When Grandfather goes to sleep, Peter takes his hat and little pop-gun away from Grandfather, and out he goes.
Little Peter wanders happily through the woods, and suddenly meets the little Russian Bird character, who is one of the principals in the story. The bird flies around Peter and sits on his gun. Peter pops the gun, but the bird makes a trapeze swing out of the string and engages in fancy gymnastics. They become close friends and travel along together, until they meet the Duck. Peter tells the Duck they are going to hunt the Wolf. The Duck gaily joins the party. As they are passing some reeds, the Cat enters the picture, stealthily creeping out, with an eye to eating the Bird. After various skirmishes between the Cat and the Bird, Peter talks seriously to the Cat about their hunt. The Cat joins the party. On they go. Their happy adventure turns into a panic when they actually encounter the Wolf soon after. Peter shoots him in the nose with his little pop-gun, which, to Peter’s dismay, does not kill him. At this point, Peter dashes out of the scene as do the others, except the Duck, who is left face to face with the Wolf. Chase scenes follow between Duck and Wolf, some of them over ice — but the Duck escapes into a hollow tree.
As the Wolf is about to investigate the tree, the brave little Bird, who is perched upon a limb of the tree, together with the Cat and Peter, decides to come to the rescue. He flies down, and the ensuing business between the Wolf and the Bird has the Bird in and out of the Wolf’s mouth. However, as the Bird is about to lose the contest,
the Cat comes down from the limb with a noose of rope and manages to get one end of it around the Wolf’s tail and the other over the tree limb. Just as the Bird falls into the Wolf’s mouth, the Wolf is jerked out of the scene, and next we see Peter and the Cat pulling on the rope. They pull so hard they fall off the limb, thereby pull
ing the Wolf up as they fall, until he is even with them, as all hang by the rope. The Wolf snaps his jaws viciously at them as they swing back and forth and around. Meanwhile the Bird is watching this struggle with extreme anxiety. He hears hunters off-stage. He flies off to enlist the aid of the hunters, who hurry to the scene to find Peter