winning the Academy Award for Best Short Subject. 80 years later, a full length movie was released by 20th Century Fox. References in other works Marvel Comics featured a recurring character named Rintrah in the pages of Doctor Strange. This extraterrestrial anthropomorphic bull was frequently referred to as Ferdinand for his gentle and kind nature. In the DC Comics, the name Ferdinand is used for a Minotaur chef at the Themysciran embassy in New York City. Ferdinand also makes an appearance in the animated film Wonder Woman: Bloodlines. Illustrator Betty Fraser used a picture of a child reading the book of Ferdinand, along with a bull smelling some flowers, in the 1978 book A House is A House for Me, authored by Mary Ann Hoberman. A rubber mask of Ferdinand is featured in Stephen King's 1995 novel Rose Madder. A non-player character (NPC) named Ferdinand in the computer game World of Warcraft can be found in the continent of Pandaria, in the zone of the Jade Forest. He is a yaungol (an oxen-like race) who sits in a garden filled with flowers and trees, with a bouquet of flowers in each hand. He is classed as a rare mob and drops rare level loot as well as a chance to drop an epic weapon when killed. Unlike most other rare mobs, he is one of the few who are not marked as hostile and will only fight back if attacked. The Palladium Books role-playing game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness features a mutant bull terrorist named "Ferd", which is short for "Ferdinand". The book was also featured in an episode of Kino's Storytime. Film A plushie of Ferdinand plays a significant role in the 1940 film Dance, Girl, Dance. The toy is passed between various characters, having been originally purchased as a memento of a visit to a nightclub called Ferdinand's. The nightclub has a large statue of Ferdinand at the rear of the bandstand. Ferdinand the Bull was the favorite book of the main character in the 1997 film Strays, a Sundance favorite written/directed/starring a then-unknown Vin Diesel. Ferdinand is referenced by the 2009 film The Blind Side, the story of Michael Oher. The movie includes a scene where the character played by Sandra Bullock reads "Ferdinand the Bull" to two adolescents. Music The story was set to incidental music in Ferdinand the Bull by classical composer