Disney Channel interlude Silly Symphonies The Old Mill TV HD Promo Animation Cartoon Short Disco
The Old Mill is a
1937 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by
Walt Disney, directed by
Wilfred Jackson, scored by
Leigh Harline, and released to theatres by
RKO Radio Pictures on
November 5, 1937. The film depicts the natural community of animals populating an old abandoned windmill in the country, and how they deal with a severe thunderstorm that nearly destroys their habitat.
Like many of the later Silly Symphonies, The Old Mill was a testing-ground for advanced animation techniques. Marking the first use of
Disney's multiplane camera, the film also incorporates realistic depictions of animal behavior, complex lighting and color effects, depictions of rain, wind, lightning, ripples, splashes and reflections, three-dimensional rotation of detailed objects, and the use of timing to produce specific dramatic and emotional effects. All of the lessons learned from making The Old Mill would subsequently be incorporated into Disney's feature-length animated films, especially 1937's
Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs.
The Silly Symphonies were a series of animated short subjects produced by
Walt Disney Productions. A total of 75 shorts were made between 1929 and
1939 while the studio was located at
Hyperion Avenue in the
Silver Lake district of
Los Angeles. Unlike the
Mickey Mouse series, to which it is a sister series, Silly Symphonies did not usually feature continuing characters (an exception being the
Three Little Pigs which had three sequels to their first cartoon) and as such were unique in their own way.
Donald Duck got his start in a Silly Symphonies cartoon (
The Wise Little Hen, 1934), and
Pluto's first appearance without Mickey Mouse was also in a Silly Symphonies cartoon (Just
Dogs, 1932).
Characters such as Donald Duck were separated from the
Silly Symphonies group to have their own cartoon series.
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