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One evening, the boy's father says that he has to sell Small One because he cannot do enough work to cover the cost of his care. Devastated by the news, the boy volunteers to take the donkey to be sold so that he can try to find him a kind master. The father agrees and tells him that he has to sell him for one piece of silver.
Dec 16, 1978 · With Sean Marshall, William Woodson, Olan Soule, Hal Smith. Ordered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, named Small One, a boy in ancient Palestine takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph.
- (2.1K)
- Animation, Short, Drama
- Don Bluth, Jack Cutting, Wolfgang Reitherman
- 1978-12-16
The boy sells the donkey for one piece of silver (the same price the boy's father agreed upon) and watches as the couple and Small One leave on their journey as a bright star appears in the sky. Characters [ ]
- 3 min
In the Galilean countryside near the city of Nazareth, Small One was an old donkey who belonged to a woodcutter, whose son was kinder to him. One day the boy's father tells him to sell Small One to the tanner as he feels there is no use for him, as he is too old to work.
The donkey, nicknamed Small One, is the oldest and weakest of the family's animals, and so the boy has been tasked to sell him in exchange for a silver coin. The boy takes Small One to the market, and fends off a slew of exploitative vendors and uninterested buyers.
Dec 13, 2016 · The Small One also stands out among Disney's long back catalogue because it is an overtly religious film: the town in which the boy attempts to sell his donkey is Nazareth, and its eventual buyer is Joseph father of Jesus. It clear on viewing The Small One why it is a comparatively obscure film. It has a very straight-forward and comparatively ...
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Dec 19, 2016 · A little boy is determined to give his best friend, an old donkey named Small One, a good home despite his father's wishes to sell the animal to the tanner for his hide. The boy works diligently all day in the city, and is constantly rebuffed, mocked, and pushed aside, despite the boy's pleas that his Small One is fit to be in a king's stable.
