Walt Disney's The Old Mill (1937)

One of the greatest animated shorts EVER!!! If you aspire to be an animator, you must watch and study this film.

Here's some general foreground of this film. During this time, Walt was very busy making Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. However, in order to create special effects in Snow White in the way Walt envisioned them, the animators had to run tests. They had to see if these effects were even possible and they wanted to see the audiences reactions.

Walt wanted Snow White to be as lifelike as possible so the audience would observe the movie as a live action film rather then a cartoon. Unfortunately, animation is in 2D so Walt and his staff came up with a solution called "The Multiplane Camera" which gave animation a 3D effect.
Different uses of lightning, color, and realism in animals was experimented in this film.

Walt won an Oscar for this film and totally deserved it.

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[indigohippee]

They shortened this when they played it on the Disney channel when I was a kid, it started with the storm and ended shortly after the lightning bolt, and all I can say TWENTY YEARS. TWENTY FREAKIN YEARS wondering if the little birdie and her eggs were okay, and now as I am going into my third year of college in the fall, I'm going to sleep like an angel tonight having FINALLY seen a happy ending for the little blue birdie and her little babies!!1! ;_; I can now move on in my adulthood...

[koenchantedNM]

Really? That's ALL you managed to get out of this wonderful cartoon???

[Matt Miller]

I have been looking for this animation for years. I used to watch it with my little brother on the disney channel around halloween. It haunted my nightmares for years and now I have found it.

[Chargal4]

Wonderful. I wish we had more truly creative works like this. Walt Disney is cartwheeling over what his name had become. In fact, this animation looks dead accurate on a depiction of a tornado/tornado damage. From 6:00 to 7:10, and especially at 6:45, you see the hallmarks of a near tornado strike: zero visibility, heavy rainfall, fast changing winds, and utter destruction.

[Giuseppe de moliner]

Roberto Assagioli ovoid.

[Mohammed Alli]

lol

[waterlilypk]

thanks to you tube now i can watch cartoons of my child hood i wanted them soooooooooooooooooo long.

[AeroRanger100]

I feel like I should make a music video that sets this to Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz

(Windmill, windmill for the land...)

[tiberianfiend]

I was very disappointed when that bird didn't get squished.

[Cora Lewis]

I looooove this cartoon. the owl especially. he just looks at everything like "fuck the world and its couch"