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Flowers and Trees (1932)

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Overview

Release Date:
30 July 1932 (USA) more
Plot:
It's spring, and the flowers, mushrooms, and trees do their calisthentics. Some trees play a tune, using vines for harp strings and a chorus of robins... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. more
User Comments:
Disney's Very Colorful Tale more


Additional Details

Runtime:
8 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (3-strip Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Cinephone
Certification:
Portugal:M/4 | USA:Approved
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Trivia:
The first animated short in full color and the first one to win an Academy Award--Walt Disney's first of thirty-two. Also the first film (animated or otherwise) to use the three-strip Technicolor process. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in "Disneyland: An Adventure in Color/Mathmagic Land (#8.1)" (1961) more

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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful:-
Disney's Very Colorful Tale, 17 October 2000
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Author: Ron Oliver (revilorest@juno.com) from Forest Ranch, CA

A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.

One beautiful Spring morning, the FLOWERS AND TREES awake to rise & shine. Two young trees, swept away by leafy bliss, carry on an arboreal romance which is threatened by the arrival of an evil-hearted old stump...

This cartoon has a cute little story, but its significance lies in the fact that it was the first cartoon produced in Technicolor. Walt had cannily entered into an exclusive contract for the use of the procedure, only the latest of a string of risky innovations he would brave. Technicolor proved to be a sensation, and FLOWERS AND TREES pointed the way to the future. It would be three more years before Mickey Mouse took the Technicolor plunge - his films were so profitable he didn't need to abandon black & white just yet - but eventually virtually all cartoons would appear in one of a handful of competing color processes.

The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most fascinating of all animated series. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.

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