Tulips Shall Grow (1942)

01/26/1942 (US) • Animation, War • 7m

Overview

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Tulips Shall Grow (1942)

01/26/1942 (US) • 7m

Animation, War

Overview

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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Keywords

prayer

netherlands

windmill

invasion

destruction

thunderstorm

desolation

young couple

puppetoon

replacement animation

rust

bombed church

screwballs

animation

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