#flowers and trees

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Silly Symphony - Flowers and Trees (1932)

[happyheidi]

𝖲𝗂𝗅𝗅𝗒 𝖲𝗒𝗆𝗉𝗁𝗈𝗇𝗂𝖾𝗌 - 𝖿𝗅𝗈𝗐𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗍𝗋𝖾𝖾𝗌 (𝟣𝟫𝟥𝟤)

[saint-daimon]

movie: flowers and trees dir: burt gillett

year: 1932

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[disney-stuff]

story sketch for the Silly Symphony ‘Flowers and Trees‘, 1932

A tree stump (the villain) has been spurned by a demure sapling (the damsel in distress).

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Floral Infused Water

From Flowers and Trees in An Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons

The History

So I realize that that title may seem a little confusing.

See as we move away from shorts and into Disney feature films, we must talk about the movie that bridges that gap.

While Disney was trying to gain investors for his Snow White project, he had to convince the banks that people would sit down for over an hour to watch a cartoon.

Seems silly to us today, but back then it was unheard of. So Disney compiled all of his short films that had won an Oscar into a movie; that was then shown in select theaters.

An Academy Award Review of Walt Disney Cartoons was not only successful enough to gain funding, but it also wound up receiving a re-release a decade later with added shorts.

We will be tackling that re-release in this series next.

The first short in the movie is Flowers and Trees.

It won the Academy Award for best animated short in 1932. Which at the time, was a brand new category for the Oscars.

The reason why it won was because it was the first short to utilize Technicolor.

Other films before it had experimented with color before, but it was a two tone process that limited what could and could not be done.

Think of the difference between Cuphead's regular mode and the harder two-strip color overlay.

That's referencing the difference between the two processes that was being experimented on at the time.

So Flowers and Trees is a first for many reasons; hence it's importance in animation history, but what about the food?

The Food

The only food in the short involves some flowers bathing in water. Water is hardly a recipe, buuuuutttt.... What if we infused water with flowers?

Such a thing is hardly new. People have been flavoring water with fruit, flowers, and leaves for as old as civilization itself, which is how tea was invented.

It's making a comeback as a heath fad, as of late, to get people to drink more water. Looking at these as inspiration, I've devised my own rose, mint, and berry combination.

Ingredients

1/2 cup raspberries

1/4 cup fresh mint leaves

2 tbsp edible dried rose petals. (be sure to get this from the grocer and not a florist as you don't want to risk consuming pesticide)

7 cups of water

Cookware

Large pitcher or jar

Directions

Tear up the mint leaves

Add the mint, berries, and rose petals into a water pitcher or jar.

Add the water

Let sit in fridge for at least 30 mins for favors to mingle

Drink or freeze within 24 hours

A trick with infused water is that you can freeze it in ice trays to store it, and then just plop a few of the icecubes into your water bottle to melt throughout the day.

Next up The Three Little Pigs and recipe from the Big Bad Wolf himself.

[diavolito]

May is beautiful 💕

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Walt Disney Silly Symphonies: Flowers and Trees flowers 🌺 🌳

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Flowers and Trees premiered Jul 30, 1932. Walt is pictured with his Oscar for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. It was the first Academy Award for animation.

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Silly Symphony - Flowers and Trees (1932)

[happyheidi]

𝖲𝗂𝗅𝗅𝗒 𝖲𝗒𝗆𝗉𝗁𝗈𝗇𝗂𝖾𝗌 - 𝖿𝗅𝗈𝗐𝖾𝗋𝗌 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗍𝗋𝖾𝖾𝗌 (𝟣𝟫𝟥𝟤)

[elijones94]

🍃🌴 Jardín Botánico 🦎🇵🇷

[clairenatural]

there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

[gotankgo]

«Flowers and Trees is a Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Burt Gillett, and released to theatres by United Artists on July 30, 1932.

It was the first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color three-strip Technicolor process after several years of two-color Technicolor films. The film was a commercial and critical success, winning the first Academy Award for Best Cartoon Short Subject.»

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story sketch for the Silly Symphony ‘Flowers and Trees‘, 1932

A tree stump (the villain), after being spurned by the sapling (the damsel in distress), rubs twigs together to start a fire and tosses the flames in the sapling’s direction, causing a fire which threatens the surrounding plants and animals.

In order to put the fire out, birds fly up and dive bomb through the clouds in order to create rain.