The Song of the Nightingale is an American 2D animated musical fantasy–comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale The Nightingale, and tells the tale of an attention-loving princess, her more responsible sister, a cunning snake charmer, a talking nightingale, and a depressed king. It also functions as an origin story for Princess Ivy of Sofia the First fame.