Tulips Shall Grow (1942)

Name: Tulips Shall Grow
Genre: Animation, War & Politics
Released: 1942-01-26

Running Time

Plot.

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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Cast & Crew.

Victor Jory

(voice)

George Pal

Producer / Cinematography / Director / Story

Wah Chang

Character Designer

Eddison von Ottenfeld

Music

Ray Harryhausen

Animation

Cecil Beard

Story

Jack Miller

Story

Details.

Release Date
January 26, 1942

Status
Released

Running Time
7m

Genres
Animation War & Politics

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

netherlands

windmill

invasion

prayer

destruction

thunderstorm

young couple

puppetoon

replacement animation

rust

bombed church

screwballs

Wiki.

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. It was released by Paramount Pictures and originally photographed in 3-strip Technicolor. It later became the black-and-white edition by National Telefilm Associates.