The Goddess of Spring
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Continuity mistake: When Pluto takes Persephone away to the Underworld, her flower chaplet remains lying on the ground up above, and the elves find it. However, when they arrive in the Underworld and Pluto carries Persephone to the throne, her flower chaplet is still adorning her head, but then it vanishes before he crowns her a queen. (00:03:20)

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Other mistake: After Pluto rises up from the Underworld, all the elves hide. When Pluto snatches Persephone and carries her away, the elves come out of hiding and begin to follow. The animation layer of the last elf on the left (turquoise hat) is not rendered properly, so his head and body appear out of thin air, mid-shot. (00:02:55)

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Other mistake: At the end, the winter setting becomes spring, with a flowery vine entwining itself around a tree. It cuts to the elves dancing around Persephone on her throne, and suddenly her long hair appears in front of her right shoulder; then it promptly vanishes, all mid-shot. (00:09:00)

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Other mistake: At the start, when Persephone dances and sits on her throne, just as she looks down at the fawn, the long hair in front of Persephone's right shoulder suddenly vanishes mid-shot. (00:01:20)

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Other mistake: When Pluto rises up from Hell and the elves run away and hide, one elf's hat falls onto the ground. The hat disappears in the last frame of this shot. (00:02:18)

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Other mistake: When Pluto/the Devil gives a big diamond to the Goddess of Spring down in hell, it shows them by silhouette shadows on the wall. Her head is hanging and bowed towards her lap. It shows her cry a tear onto the diamond by shadow, but the placement of the shadow shows the drop come from her forehead, not her eyes. Whereas a moment later, without her moving, the camera pulls back and shows her cry more tears, this time from her eyes, and the shadow shows the tear come from the correct location. (00:06:20)

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Continuity mistake: When the dancing flowers form a wreath for Persephone, there are 16 flowers that make it up. After she is dragged down to Hell and her wreath left behind on the hill, there are now only 12 flowers in the wreath. (00:01:44 - 00:03:25)

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Continuity mistake: When the sentient flowers bow before Persephone at her throne, there are some crushed red non-sentient flowers or roses on the ground near them, with some of the other flowers standing on them. Then, after the camera dissolves to a closer angle with the sentient flowers still bowing, the red flowers on the ground have vanished. (00:01:26)

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Revealing mistake: After Persephone is taken down to Hell, the elves gather around her wreath trying to figure it out. As the shot is slowly fading to black, suddenly some of the elves spontaneously change hat colours. On the left side, the light blue hat changes to orange and the dark blue changes to light blue. And on the right side, another light blue suddenly changes to dark blue, and a red hat changes to orange. All in a single frame. (00:03:34)

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Continuity mistake: After Pluto asks Persephone what he can do to make her smile, the part of her dress that was draped over the armrest of the underworld throne has vanished. (00:06:53)

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Continuity mistake: They make a point to show Persephone's shadow on the wall when she's in the Underworld on the throne down there, with her tear in the shadow falling on the large diamond in her lap. Then, after Pluto gets frustrated with her crying and starts to walk away, he turns to her again, and in this new shot of Persephone, she's in the same position on the throne, but now her shadow is nowhere to be seen. (00:06:37)

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Continuity mistake: When Persephone first goes to her throne, the design on the front of the chair is a trapezoid shape. But later, after the world is freezing in winter with her gone, the throne is shown again, and the front design on the chair is now perfectly rectangular. (00:01:10 - 00:05:50)

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Continuity mistake: The demons are dancing and singing around a roaring fire down in Hell, and they are casting shadows from the light of the fire. When the shot dissolves to a close-up of the demons on the upper level, their legs are no longer casting shadows on the floor, just shadows on the wall. (00:04:47)

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Continuity mistake: When Pluto is presenting Persephone with a crown, the throne she is sitting on changes its design in the close-up than what it was in the far shot before he set her down. Most notable is the space under the armrests was open in the distance, but in the close-up is filled in. (00:04:02)

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Continuity mistake: After Pluto sets Persephone on her new throne in Hell, he stands up straight and puts his hands on his hips. It cuts to a close-up of him, and suddenly a demon carrying her new crown on a pillow appears, walking up to Pluto. Just appears between shots. (00:03:56)

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Continuity mistake: When Pluto carries Persephone down into Hell and sets her on her new underworld throne, a pot or cauldron of jewels appears next to the throne that was not there in the previous shot. (00:03:48)

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Continuity mistake: After Persephone is taken down to Hell, the elves rush to the hill where her wreath is to investigate. Suddenly, there are two elves wearing red hats amongst them when there were no red hats among them at any point prior to this. (00:03:28)

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Continuity mistake: After the hole to hell seals back up, the flower wreath is left sitting on a small hill. In the next shot, as an elf is running up to it, suddenly the hill has more than tripled in size. (00:03:24)

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Revealing mistake: As Pluto is carrying the goddess off, the elves attempt to rush to her rescue, only to be stopped by the little demons. As they are shuffling around, several of them go up on the hill, trying to get around; however, the perspective of their size doesn't change enough in proportion to the hill and gazebo, making the elves look like they are giants when further up the hill. (00:03:04)

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Continuity mistake: When Pluto first walks up to Persephone and bows, the tree next to her throne with flowers on it is visible. After he tells her he's chosen her to be queen, it cuts to a close-up of her protesting, and now we see the tree again, but all the flowers have changed. A white one has disappeared, and now it's a closer cluster of orange and red flowers with no pink ones. (00:02:50)

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Other mistake: When Pluto rises up from Hell and the elves run away and hide, one elf's hat falls onto the ground. The hat disappears in the last frame of this shot. (00:02:18)

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Persephone: Please let me return to my world up above, Be gentle, be kind, and comply.
For unless I return to my world up above, Each thing growing there will die.
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Trivia: This short film animation is based around the Greek legend of Persephone and Hades, though using the Roman name for him as Pluto. They leave out the fact that Pluto/Hades and she are blood relatives, with Pluto/Hades actually being Persephone's uncle. They also conflate Pluto with the Christian devil, Satan, and the underworld looking like depictions of Hell.

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