Farmyard Symphony

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{{Infobox film

| image = Farmyard Symphony (film.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| director = Jack Cutting

| producer = Walt Disney

| story = {{Plainlist|

• Erdman Penner
• Vernon Stallings

}}

| starring = {{Plainlist|

• Melvin J. Gibby
• Beatrice Hagen
• Dorothy Lloyd
• Lee Millar
• Victor Rodman
• Lee Sweetland
• Max Terhune
• Billy Bletcher
• Florence Gill
• Clarence Nash

}}

| music = Leigh Harline

| animator =

| layout_artist = {{Plainlist|

• Arthur Heinemann
• David Hilberman

}}

| background_artist =

| studio = Walt Disney Productions

| distributor = RKO Radio Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1938|10|14}}

| color_process = Technicolor

| runtime =

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Farmyard Symphony is a 1938 Silly Symphonies animated short film.{{cite book |editor-last1=Mullaney |editor-first1=Dean |title=Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies Volume 1: The Complete Disney Classics |date=2016 |publisher=IDW Publishing |location=San Diego, CA |isbn=9781631408045 |page=192}} It can be seen as a precursor to Fantasia due to using various pieces of classical music in one short. The film was directed by Jack Cutting and produced by Walt Disney.{{cite book |last1=Merritt |first1=Russell |last2=Kaufman |first2=J. B. |year=2016 |title=Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series |location=Glendale, CA |edition=2nd |publisher=Disney Editions |pages=204–205 |isbn=978-1-4847-5132-9}}

An adaptation of the short was featured in the Silly Symphony comic strip over six weeks, from October 23 to November 27, 1938, around the time of the film's theatrical release. While the short doesn't have much of a story, the comic adaptation expands on a running gag involving a piglet looking for food, giving one of the piglets distinctive markings and a name (Spotty), and turns the gag into a short narrative.{{cite book |last1=Taliaferro |first1=Al |last2=Osborne |first2=Ted |last3=De Maris |first3=Merrill |title=Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics, vol 2 |date=2016 |publisher=IDW Publishing |location=San Diego |isbn=978-1631408045}} Spotty Pig also appeared in a nine-page story in the Silly Symphonies comic book issue #2 (1953).{{cite web |title=Silly Symphonies #2 |url=https://inducks.org/issue.php?c=us%2FSS++++2 |website=Inducks |access-date=27 July 2019}}