42 years ago I first saw this short film. It feels almost the same now as it did then (I am not quite so scared of the bear but the baby rabbit still gets me). I just love it and it is a memory that has alway stayed with me. Many thanks for uploading it and many thanks to the primary school teacher that had to load the film reel into the projector to play it (I am embarrassed to say I don't remember her name). No DVD or computer. Simpler times, simpler pleasures.

Me and my mom are HUGE fans of Little Hiawatha....especially my mom, this was always her favorite little cartoon of all time. :)

So true. I watch this so often with my boyfriend and I always get teary eyed and yell "please don't be mean to the bunny!"

This was my favorite cartoon as a child. I am so happy to have found it and to be able to watch it again as an adult :-)

i used to watch this all the time!!! they played this at the Disney resorts!... nothing beats the classics

How can anybody not like that little cartoon? That story is so universal: a little boy thinking he is the big man and everything he does proves that he is only a little boy Who cannot relate to that?

I remember watching this as a child, I loved it!

Moral of the story: BUY A BELT!!!

Hehe love how he sails away with arms crossed on chest in pride :)

The memories! I've been wanting for a while to watch this again. thank you :)

the rabbits are soooo cute too!!

Someone get the poor kid a belt

I watched this 3 times in a row with my nephew today and im sure when he comes over again he will be asking for it,lol.Thanks for posting.

Thank you for posting this up. It was one of my favourites when I was little!

Classic cartoon. Soooo cute!

just precious!! thanx for sharing this .

AAAAWWWWWW, Little Hiawatha fell victim to the Big Bunny Eyes!!! Cuteness can not kill fellow cuteness!!!

Is it just me, or are those the same animals from Snow White? But only more simplistic designs? Speaking of Snow White, the studio had enough financial issues funding that movie. Wouldn't they have saved money if they didn't make cartoons on the side?

4:33 cutest bunny ever :3

I'm so glad I finally found this! I always wanted to see the cartoon the character came from. (Hiawatha often appears in the Dutch Disney weekly) Thanks a lot for posting :)

I remember seeing this in my hotel in Disney World when I was a little kid. It's a cute cartoon, I'm glad to have found it again. Do they still do that, by the way? I mean, show their old cartoons on the hotel TVs in Disney World?

This was always my favorite silly symphony.

Oh how I love the scared bunny. I have a picture of him on my wall. Thank you for posting this!

oh my God, these little characters are beautiful!!!! Please come back! :)

That mother bear resembles a bear in a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Man..Disney sure loved the pants drop gag didn't he? In all honesty this was one of my favorites as a kid. Good to see it again.

I remember when these came on /the/ Disney channel before I went to school. Good times. :)

I remember this!!!!! THANK YOU FOR POSTING IT!!!!!!!!! It brought back so many happy memories! ;-)

this was my favorite cartoon growing up :]

oh wow this brings back memories when i was lil. thanks!

Thanks for uploading this!!!

...and this was the very first version of brother bear^^ love it! ^_^

I remember this cartoon, i was 5yo!! :)

Beautiful artistry!

That rabbit is the cuuuutest!

thanks for posting this, when i was little i watched this all the time but when i moved i couldn't figure out what it was called and then i accidentally came upon this and i was so happy.

I really enjoyed this. Thanks x

Hiawatha was always my favorite when I was a kid.

these short Disney wordless cartoons were my absolute favourites, I had a tape with a collection of them, but I lost it... Now I found most of them here, what a joy! God bless KZfaq c:

Classic, thanks for uploading.

OMG I used to watch it all the time, because it was at the end of this vhs tape me and my sister had

oh my gosh that short was so cute xDD

love him giving the rabbit a bow, reflects the way humans think.

Awesome cartoon

The animals are SO cute!

This is great, Thank you!

Haven't seen this in yeeeeaaarrrsss

I had the same book (he was trying to catch a big fish with a rope). so nostalgic!

Stunning animation.

nice - one of the best.

I remember this from when i was a little kid. Sweeet memories.

Heehee! His pants are to big for his wee rump. :P .. I laughed when the cricket spit in his face. xD ... The bunny! ... The bear cub! This video is too cute.

the animation is great!

Gorgeous animation along with "The Old Mill" both produced in 1937 were probably precursors to Snow White also produced in 1937. If you haven't seen it yet, look at the Old Mill - an incredible piece of animation and an Academy Award winner as well.

It's often more effective to ask people to forget then it is to ask the victims to forgive.

Thank you for download this cartoon I enjoy some much again. I see was a long time ago and I like some much. Thank you very much.

i cant be young again, but i can watch this!!

wow tht deer is relly cute

i'm sure i seen bambi and thumper in there too lol

Cuteness from the beginning to the end.

Just got this as a book from the little golden books and had to look it up. So very cute. My three kids really liked it.

Very Good !

Cuuuuute!

Dang.......somebody get that kid a belt! Great vid 5/5

The animation for this beautiful little film was done by Charles Thorson. He also wrote and did the illustrations for a book, 'Keeko'. There is a book over his work called, 'Cartoon Charlie' by Gene Walz.

so cute ^_^

How rude of him to sail off w/out waving goodbye to his friends! In a children's book I had as a kid, telling this story, he does wave goodbye &, of course, so do they!

When I was little, I almost got teary-eyed when Hiawatha started shedding tears from having second thoughts about shooting the arrow at the baby bunny. I didn't understand myself at that time.

Hehe! It was killing me I couldn't think of the name of this cartoon! But I specifically remembered the boat and water and finally it came to my head! Little Hiawatha! I used to laugh about his butt when this was paired with a Pocahontas VHS. Good times, lol.

You are touching my soul at my childhood, thank You with my music. Heartbeats to You, Udo Kamjunke sitar tv

i love the little animals

Dis was also on Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: vol.13: Silly Symphonies - Facible Fables, which had same Great Mouse Detective trailer Alice in Wonderland had.

I love the poem in which this video was inspired...I dont think its inrespectful at all. Beautiful images, delicious music and sound...its exciting and brings back good old times

so effin cute!

haha this was on all the time when i was at Disney World like 2 years ago, on that channel that plays all old disney cartoons

i remember watching this in my disney hotel...

How to make someone vegetarian 101 *make them watch this clip 3:50 - 5:00 *

The beginning is from the poem "Little Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

i looove this cartoon!!! poooor hiawatta!!

omg this is so cute!

LOVE IT

love his little dance

Aaaaw I remember this >u

you have completely right

omg his pants keep falling off. still he is cute

i love this cartoon i'm native american and i love the stereo types

ahhh...nostalgic :)

Cute cartoon.

I remember I used to watch this w/ my daddy! (I had it on tape)

I have to admit that this was extremely good, and excellent, even though I am 14. ^-^

hahahaha that beavers by the end

Awesome cartoons

old cartoons are so good compaird to these days

funny and cute :)

It's kinda ironic that I happened across this video a couple of days ago just when I was copying the Finnish translation of The Song of Hiawatha to my computer. Old as it is (98 years & only one edition was ever made), the Finnish translation is, in a poetic sense, a "return" translation. It was, after all, the German translation of the Finnish national epic Kalevala where Longfellow borrowed trochaic tetrameter from.

hahahahahahaha that's what made it so cute though

cute bunny rabbit!

This was fun and beautifully made, but the constant pants-falling-off joke was just an overkill...

Heh, this was on the "Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World" DVD.

Little hiawatha isnt actually all that old to me theres new comics about him almost weekly where I live!