Little Red Riding Hood (1901)

In a bakery in the French countryside Father Latourte his wife and their staff are busy with customers pastries and baked goods of all kinds The Latourtes young daughter called Red Riding Hood reads by the firelight until her parents leave for a moment She starts to play boisterously getting the bakery staff mixed up in hijinks and pratfalls Her father and mother return chagrined by her escapades and she is told to take a pot of butter and a galette to her grandmothers cottage Red Riding Hood travels through the forest on her errand meeting a wolf who finds out where she is going Encountering her friends from the village school she happily pauses her journey to play and dance with them Meanwhile at a windmill near the cottage the miller SansSouci has comic trouble with his mule