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The Old Mill
1937 American film
The Old Mill
The Old Mill is a Silly Symphonies animated short film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, scored by Leigh Harline, and released theatrically by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937. The film depicts the natural community of animals populating an old abandoned windmill in the country, and how they deal with a severe summer thunderstorm that nearly destroys their habitat. The Old Mill was the first Silly Symphony cartoon to be released by RKO and was given a new Silly Symphony logo, some new titles, and a burlap background which was used for several other Disney theatrical cartoon series like Donald Duck, Goofy, Mickey Mouse, and Pluto the Pup. Like many of the later Silly Symphony shorts, The Old Mill was a testing ground for advanced animation techniques. Marking the first use of Disney's multiplane camera, the film also incorporates realistic depictions of animal behavior, complex lighting and color effects, depictions of wind, rain, lightning, ripples, splashes and...
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