Tulips Shall Grow

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Movie
Original title Tulips Shall Grow
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1942
length 7 minutes
Rod
Director George Pal
script George Pal,
Jack Miller ,
Cecil Beard
production George Pal
for George Pal Productions
music Eddison von Ottenfeld

Tulips Shall Grow is a 1942 American short film directed by George Pal .

action

A tulip-strewn landscape with windmills : Jan plays the accordion and loves Janette. She lives in a windmill. He sends her a tulip over the windmill wing, and she sends him a cake that says “I love Jan”. Both begin to dance.

Suddenly the warlike screwballs appear on the horizon, metal beings that transform all the tulip fields into fallow fields. The windmills are destroyed by them, bombs hit the local church and leave behind a ruin. Jan and Janette flee, but Jan loses his girlfriend in the chaos.

Jan withdraws to the destroyed church and prays. A thunderstorm begins. The metal warriors crumble and their tanks sink into the morass. What remains is a destroyed landscape. Jan returns to Janette's windmill and Janette opens it for him. He is happy and they both run away dancing. Behind them the tulip fields emerge and when you come to a destroyed windmill, it repairs itself. In the sky, clouds form a " V ". The final title proclaims "Tulips Shall Always Grow" (English for "Tulips should always bloom.").

production

Tulips Shall Grow is an animated film in the Puppetoon series . It was shot in stop motion . One of the trick technicians was Ray Harryhausen . The film was released on January 26, 1942.

After the beginning of World War II , George Pal and his wife fled the Netherlands to the United States in 1940. The film was shot at a time when the Netherlands was occupied by the Nazis.

Awards

Tulips Shall Grow was in 1943 for an Oscar in the category " animated Best Short Film nomination," but could not against Der Fuehrer's Face prevail. It was the second Puppetoon film to be nominated for an Oscar , after Rhythm in the Ranks from 1941.

In 1997, Tulips Shall Grow was accepted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress .

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