Tulips Shall Grow
1942 American animated short film directed by George Pal
- January 26, 1942 (1942-01-26)
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Tulips Shall Grow is a 1942 American animated short film in the Puppetoons series, directed by George Pal and starring Rex Ingram and Victor Jory.[1] It was released by Paramount Pictures[2] and originally photographed in 3-strip Technicolor. It later became the black-and-white edition by National Telefilm Associates.
Plot
A Dutch boy and girl's idyllic existence is destroyed when they are overrun by a group of Nazi-like mechanical men called "The Screwballs", who lay waste to everything they touch. The Screwballs are later destroyed by a thunderstorm (the rain of which causes them to rust) and the boy and girl's idyllic life resumes.[3]
Reception
The cartoon was nominated for the Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. In 1997, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4][5]
It was also included in the 1987 compilation film The Puppetoon Movie.[6]
References
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 85–86. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "National Film Preservation Board" (PDF). www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ^ Dig a hole and Tulips Shall Grow: Ray Harryhausen|San Diego Reader
- ^ DataBase, The Big Cartoon. "Tulips Shall Grow (Paramount Pictures)". Big Cartoon DataBase (BCDB).[dead link]
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
- ^ "The Puppetoon Movie". Turner Classic Movies.
External links
- Tulips Shall Grow essay by Mark Mayerson at National Film Registry
- Tulips Shall Grow essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 ISBN 0826429777, pages 346-347
- Tulips Shall Grow at IMDb
- "Tulips Shall Grow" short film at Europa Film Treasures site
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- 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
- The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
- Mysterious Island (1961)
- Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
- First Men in the Moon (1964)
- One Million Years B.C. (1966)
- The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
- Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
- Clash of the Titans (1981)
- How to Bridge a Gorge (1942)
- Tulips Shall Grow (1942)
- Guadalcanal (1943)
- Mother Goose Stories (1946)
- The Story of Little Red Riding Hood (1949)
- The Story of Rapunzel (1951)
- The Story of Hansel and Gretel (1951)
- The Story of King Midas (1953)
- The Story of The Tortoise & the Hare (2002, begun 1953)
