The short was produced by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released on September 16, 1933, as a part of the Silly Symphonies series.

[1] In the city of Hamelin, there is a large population of rats that keeps growing and eating all the food in sight.

When he returns to the town, the mayor refuses to pay him the bag of gold because he just played a pipe, and gives him one coin, while the other adults laugh at him.

Furious, the Pied Piper decides to get revenge and save the children from growing up to be like the adults by taking them away.

The Piper leads the children to the mountains and an enchanted land with fun and games, where they all live happily ever after.