Introducing Disney's technical innovation, the multiplane camera, The Old Mill is a groundbreaking piece of animated art featuring a musical collage of living beings and tenderness suddenly theatened by the dangers of mother nature itself, with the now iconic old mill as the center of it all, witnessing the struggle for survival until hope rises once again above an orange horizon.

Perfection has few times reached such an admirable level. This is the kind of longstanding achievements that modern animators look up to, just to remember how the traditional techniques were capable of creating the most sutile of visual wonders and delights, and create inspiration in the minds of today.

100/100

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This was visually beautiful but very boring

We love when Disney just goes full arthouse on us. Masterful stuff.

Reminds me of back home on the farm during a storm, but animated by Disney.

All the doors constantly slamming with the wind along with the wildlife, it was just a great relatable mood piece.

Remember when Disney wasn't literally a money factory

This Walt Disney production won The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1937.

It isn’t really entertaining but the design for the old mill is really well made and all the movements that the gears do along the eight minutes.

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Films - 1930s Ranked list

My own personal Mandela Effect is that I swear to god the version of this I watched as a kid featured the bird in the divot getting crushed and killed by the mill.

I love these animated shorts made by Disney! They are so soothing and fun. Anyone who likes Fantasia should check them out. This is a particularly cool one in my opinion! Beautiful music and adorable animals! 🎶♥️

Not Halloween-themed per se, but definitely Autumnal, and not just because of the rotting mill taking the storm's fury (this is a short that ends with, among other things, a cluster of bats returning to their perch and falling asleep adorably after a night of flying around), the message of the film is simple and powerful enough, especially in 2020, but the execution is what really makes it stand out ---from the sequence where the bluebird and her eggs are in peril to the opening shot of the mill coming into focus through the spiderwebbing against the yellow sky, this thing is beautiful enough to stick in memory for life once you've seen it.

Film #6 of The Movie King's Scavenger Hunt Challenge: Disney Edition
Task #2: A Silly Symphony

Short of the Day

An experimental short for Disney as its groundbreaking technologies including the multi-plane camera would pave the way for feature length works of animation including Snow White and Fantasia, The Old Mill is as beautiful and sweeping as it was almost 80 years to the day! The animation feels more textured than the cartoonish approach of past Symphonies, heck the only real silly scene of the film is frogs communicating with the grasshoppers, but what I admire most about the short is Disney's bold move to create a beautiful 8-minute short with different creatures living through the stages of nature inside a worn-out windmill without any dialogue... now that's something you don't see happening every day from Disney!!!

What a lovely short indeed!

10/10 (PHENOMENAL)

BRING THIS DISNEY BACK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

Animated Short - This "Silly Symphony" cartoon earned Walt Disney his sixth Oscar for "Best Short Subject, Cartoons," a category he dominated from its inception in 1932 until his death in 1966. There is no dialog here at all, just nine minutes of flawless animation and excellent sound effects, set to an orchestral rendition of Johann Strauss's "One Day When We Were Young."

The subject is a single day and stormy night at an abandoned windmill, which is home to a wide variety of creatures, from skittish rodents and noisy bullfrogs to lovey-dovey pigeons, nesting birds and a wise old owl. This marked the first application of Disney's multiplane camera, used to achieve 3D effects in two dimensions. The animation advances made in here, such as realistic animal movements, are clearly evident in later Disney features, from "Snow White" (1937) to "Pinocchio" (1940) and "Bambi" (1942). It's a true classic of animated art.

Disney were just magnificent during this period.

One of the more beautiful and timeless of the Silly Symphony Disney shorts. I really like this one.

This was picturesque AF.

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No other option but to love old Disney simple art style.

did those birds fuck?

Netter kleiner Kurzfilm, wobei man hier auf jedenfall noch die Anfänge erkennt.

Nice short film, where you can definitely still see the beginnings here.

I watched this because Miyazaki told me to

BRING THIS DISNEY BACK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

Todo espectacular con Marvel y obvio Star Wars, pero las cosas que más me están copando de Disney+ es poder ir a ver todos los cortos y orígenes.

Hasta ahora, este es el que más me gustó. La cuestión de un lugar abandonado que combina la naturaleza y relaciona los espacios con animales y la música, está genial. El juego del montaje literalmente climático es perfecto. Por apenas 8 minutos, encuentro momentos  que me llevan a todo lo que me gusta de Estudios Ghibli.

Does animation ever really improve from here? Sure there are technically improvement but this is perfect cinematic storytelling and just absolutely gorgeous. 
 GO OFF WITH THAT MULTIPLANE CAMERA.
I love the little bat buddies.

2/100 boxd.it/aDItK

Another of the more renowned Silly Symphony shorts, and it's easy to see why. The animation in this short is remarkable, such a difference and improvement to what came before. The use of the multi-plane camera for the first time is beautiful. You can really see the the beginnings of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Fantasia in this short film.