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The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.
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- Writer
- Stars
Kenny Baker
- Singing Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Jessica Dragonette
- Goddess of Spring
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Tudor Williams
- Pluto
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Wilfred Jackson(uncredited)
- Writer
- William Cottrell(uncredited)
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- TriviaWalt Disney and his animators used this short as a test to see if they could create realistic animation, a style they would later perfect in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Once Upon a Mouse (1981)
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Disney Dallies With Greek Mythology
A Walt Disney SILLY SYMPHONY Cartoon Short.
Persephone, THE GODDESS OF SPRING, is kidnapped by Hades, the devilish god of the Underworld, leaving the earth in perpetual winter. Will the warmth & joy of Spring ever return?
A vivid, and somewhat bizarre, little film which retells the story from Greek Mythology, while incorporating both operatic & jazz traditions. The animators seem to have confused the character of Hades with that of the Biblical Satan. Years later, Walt would draw comparison between Persephone & Snow White, to illustrate how far his animators evolved in just three short years.
The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most fascinating of all animated series. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.
Persephone, THE GODDESS OF SPRING, is kidnapped by Hades, the devilish god of the Underworld, leaving the earth in perpetual winter. Will the warmth & joy of Spring ever return?
A vivid, and somewhat bizarre, little film which retells the story from Greek Mythology, while incorporating both operatic & jazz traditions. The animators seem to have confused the character of Hades with that of the Biblical Satan. Years later, Walt would draw comparison between Persephone & Snow White, to illustrate how far his animators evolved in just three short years.
The SILLY SYMPHONIES, which Walt Disney produced for a ten year period beginning in 1929, are among the most fascinating of all animated series. Unlike the Mickey Mouse cartoons in which action was paramount, with the Symphonies the action was made to fit the music. There was little plot in the early Symphonies, which featured lively inanimate objects and anthropomorphic plants & animals, all moving frantically to the soundtrack. Gradually, however, the Symphonies became the school where Walt's animators learned to work with color and began to experiment with plot, characterization & photographic special effects. The pages of Fable & Fairy Tale, Myth & Mother Goose were all mined to provide story lines and even Hollywood's musicals & celebrities were effectively spoofed. It was from this rich soil that Disney's feature-length animation was to spring. In 1939, with SNOW WHITE successfully behind him and PINOCCHIO & FANTASIA on the near horizon, Walt phased out the SILLY SYMPHONIES; they had run their course & served their purpose.
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- Ron Oliver
- Oct 11, 2000
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- A Greek Myth
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- Runtime10 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Goddess of Spring (1934) officially released in Canada in English?
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