Of flowers and trees
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Of flowers and trees |
| Original title | Flowers and Trees |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Burt Gillett |
| production |
Walt Disney for Walt Disney Productions |
From flowers and trees an American is an animated film by Burt Gillett from 1932. It was the first film with the Oscar in the category " animated Best Short Film " award.
action
A spring day begins. The trees are awakening, the flowers are washing themselves in the lake and doing morning exercise, mushrooms are springing up and a millipede begins its day's work. While a deciduous tree man cautiously wakes a deciduous tree woman, an older tree stump is grumpy to be woken up. Vultures sit on its dead branches, bats wake up in it and an animal skull lies nearby.
The deciduous tree man begins to ensnare the deciduous tree woman with harp music . While she is flattered and pulls away from him, the old tree stump sneaks up and tries to kidnap her. The tree man intervenes and saves the tree woman. There is a stick fight between the two rivals, in which the tree stump is defeated. He takes revenge, starts a fire and sets parts of the area on fire. Horrified, the mushrooms retreat into the ground, the bluebells sound the alarm, small conifer sprouts seek protection from their mother, while other flowers attempt to extinguish them. Birds eventually manage to pierce the clouds, causing rain to put out the fire. The tree stump fell victim to its own deed: the fire caught and burned it.
The deciduous tree man and the deciduous tree woman remained unharmed. He asked for her hand and she accepted his proposal. As a wedding ring, he slips the rolled-up millipede over her twig finger, which the deciduous woman enthusiastically glows. In the end, a rainbow crowns the wedding.
production
From Flowers and Trees appeared in the Walt Disney series Silly Symphonies on July 30, 1932 . The premiere took place the day before at Sid Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles . From Flowers and Trees served as a supporting film for Strange Interlude with Clark Gable .
Of Flowers and Trees was originally planned as a black and white film, but it then became the first Disney film to be produced as a test with the new 3-color printing from Technicolor . This process resulted in natural colors in films for the first time compared to Technicolor's older methods. Flowers and Trees became a commercial success and a trailblazer for the following fully colored cartoons. He also helped the Disney cartoon series Silly Symphonies to popularity.
The film was released in German-speaking countries in 2004 as part of the DVD series Walt Disney Kostbarkeiten , where it was first given the German title Von Blumen und Trees .
Award
From Flowers and Trees was awarded an Oscar in the category “ Best Animated Short Film ” in 1932 .
Web links
- By flowers and trees in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Of flowers and trees on disneyshorts.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Russel Merritt, JB Kaufman: Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies. A companion to the classic cartoons series . La Cinecita del Friuli, Gemona, p. 110.
- ↑ Cf. disneyshorts.org ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Leonard Maltin: Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons . Plume Books, New York 1980, p. 39.
