Windy Day

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Movie
Original title Windy Day
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1968
length 10 mins
Rod
Director John Hubley
Faith Hubley
production John Hubley
Faith Hubley
for Hubley Studios
synchronization

Windy Day is a 1968 American animated short film directed by John Hubley and Faith Hubley .

action

Two sisters, the little girl Georgia and the slightly older Emily, are talking. You are lying on a lake, it is a windy day. Emily wants to put on a play about Princess Polly, played by Georgia, and Emily as Prince Joe and his captive sister, Princess Jane. Georgia is not in the mood and interrupts the scene by falling out of the role - the backdrop of a fairytale castle then immediately disappears and both children find themselves at the lake.

At some point Emily manages to get Georgia to continue the play. Joe now fights against the evil dragon that Georgia embodies. When Emily cuts the kite into small pieces and then rides away with the kite treasure, Georgia starts to mourn. She doesn't like the piece anymore and so she invents a new one: She is a kangaroo and Emily a giraffe. The kangaroo carries the giraffe's children in its pouch, while the giraffe carries the kangaroo children on its back. Both animals happily jump around.

The girls' conversation turns to having children, death and getting older, with Georgia taking the view that you play when you are six and seven years old and by then you are already old and gray. Both children giggle and rush to the dinner table set by their parents. The wind whirls her hair around.

production

Windy Day is based on a subsequent animation of an improvised conversation. As in Moonbird , Windy Day was based on a conversation between children of the Hubleys, but this time between daughters Georgia and Emily Hubley. Both had complained to their parents that they always use men in their films. In response, Windy Day was created , in which only both girls appear as protagonists. Georgia and Emily were partly involved in the drawings of the film.

synchronization

role Original speaker
Georgia Georgia Hubley
Emily Emily Hubley

Awards

Windy Day was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 1969, but could not prevail against Winnie the Pooh and the dog weather .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubley, Faith . In: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster: Women film directors: an international bio-critical dictionary . Greenwood, Westport 1995, p. 190.