The rape of the spring goddess
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The rape of the spring goddess |
| Original title | The Goddess of Spring |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 9:43 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Wilfred Jackson |
| production | Walt Disney |
| music | Leigh Harline |
The Rape of the Goddess of Spring (original title: The Goddess of Spring ) is an animated film by the Walt Disney Company from 1934. It is the first Disney film in which people are drawn realistically and is considered a feasibility study for the full-length cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
action
The plot of the rape of the goddess of spring is based on the myth of Persephone . Pluto , the god of the underworld, kidnaps Persephone, the goddess of spring, into his kingdom. Without their presence, the eternal spring of the upper world turns into a snowy winter. Persephone does not find happiness in the underworld. Pluto and Persephone agree that in future Persephone will spend half the year in the upper world and the other half in the underworld. With their return to the upper world, winter gives way to spring. Persephone's constant alternation between the worlds explains the course of the seasons.
Emergence
The Rape of the Spring Goddess is part of the Silly Symphonies series created between 1929 and 1939 . The Silly Symphonies had no fixed main characters and served as an experimental field for the further development of the production process, the technology, the characters and the scripts. Since the cartoonists at Disney in 1934 had no experience of depicting lifelike people, in the summer Walt Disney commissioned director Wilfried Jackson and the cartoonists Les Clark and Hamilton Luske to develop the Silly Symphonies episode The Rape of the Goddess of Spring , in which lifelike people are depicted should play the main roles.
Publication and evaluation
The film was officially released on November 3, 1934, and premiered in support of We Live Again on November 1 in New York and on November 22 in Los Angeles. The attempt to portray people lifelike turned out to be a dismal failure. Persephone's facial features wander over her face, while dancing her arms and legs swing like algae in the current. In German-speaking countries, The Raub of the Spring Goddess was released on video in 1987 under the title Crazy Musicians , together with nine other short films from the Silly Symphonies series. In episode 29 of the television program Adventure with Micky and Donald from Super RTL , The Robbery of the Spring Goddess was broadcast.
Relation to Snow White
Walt Disney never directly stated that The Rape of the Spring Goddess was a feasibility study for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . Some scenes from The Rape of the Spring Goddess are found in a more mature form in Snow White . This includes the dressing of Persephone and Snow White by birds, the dramatic, operatic song scenes and the behavior of Pluto, which was adopted for the witch.
Web links
- The Rape of the goddess of spring in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry in The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts (Engl.)
- The Rape of the Spring Goddess in Duckipedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ NY Times report on the premiere of We Live Again on November 2, 1934
- ↑ Pat Williams, Jim Denney: How to be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life . HCI, 2005, ISBN 978-0-7573-0231-2 .
- ↑ Michael Barrier: The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney . University of California Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-520-25619-4 .