The Academy Award® winning cartoon short Ferdinand the Bull, released on this day in 1938, was based on the story by Munro Leaf and illustrations by Robert Lawson. When the character of Ferdinand the Bull needed a voice in Disney’s cartoon version of the story, Walt Disney took the bull by the horns and voiced the character himself, while animator Milt Kahl provided the voice of Ferdinand’s mother. Other Disney artists were also drawn into the bullfighting arena, caricatured as the banderilleros and picadors, with Walt as the matador. Albert Hay Malotte wrote the music, and it’s quite proba-bull that you’ve heard his music before. In addition to composing for Disney on shorts such as the Brave Little Tailor, Little Hiawatha, and Lonesome Ghosts, he is best known for composing the music to The Lord’s Prayer.