The Goddess of Spring
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Continuity mistake: After Pluto arises from Hell, we get a side shot of Persephone's throne. In this angle, several things about her throne and the items around it have changed. The throne itself is wider, the curls of the arm rests are smaller, the cornucopias have shrunk and have less food in them, some of the fruit in front of the cornucopias has changed or disappeared, the stems on the pumpkins change, and one of the trees behind her throne is now much closer and beside her. (00:02:17)

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Continuity mistake: As Persephone is dancing along the path to get to her throne, in the background there is a gazebo sitting on a hill with trees behind it and bushes in front of it. Later, when Pluto is rising up from Hell, we get another shot of the gazebo and the trees behind it have changed, as well as the bushes in front of it that have vanished. (00:01:05 - 00:02:15)

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Continuity mistake: As the elves are dancing along the creek playing their instruments, each one with a different colour hat has a different instrument. In this shot, the ones with the yellow hat have a horn, and the ones with purple hats have a harp. However, after the dissolve to a closer shot, these have swapped, with the yellow hats now having harps and the purple hats having horns. The rest of the elves remain the same. (00:00:45)

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Continuity mistake: When Persephone is on her throne, she has large horn-like cornucopia structures behind and next to her. When the camera is in a close shot as the birds put a wreath on her head, the cornucopias have vanished, only to return again after she is nuzzling one of the birds on her shoulder and the camera cuts to a far shot once more. (00:01:55)

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Continuity mistake: After the flowers at Persephone's feet finish dancing, they form a wreath for the birds to place on her head. As they are dancing and then lying down to form the wreath, the blue flowers have a yellow disk inside, while the white flowers have a red disk. But then, when the birds are placing the wreath on Persephone's head, the blue flowers suddenly all have red disks like the white flowers. (00:01:45)

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Continuity mistake: After Persephone sits down, some flowers run up to the base of her throne and bow before her. They are still a good distance away from the stone base of her throne. And there is also a significant distance between her feet and the edge of the base. When the image dissolves to the next shot, not only are the flowers suddenly right up next to the stone base, but so are her feet right near the edge. (00:01:25)

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Continuity mistake: After Persephone sits down, two rows of sentient flowers walk up and take a bow. Each row is 8 flowers, alternating between white and blue. In the first shot, both rows are arranged the same with a blue flower on the far right and a white flower on the far left. Then when it dissolves to a close-up, the back row of flowers is now switched to have white on the far right and blue on the far left. (00:01:25)

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Continuity mistake: At the start, some dwarves begin dancing along the way with instruments as wildlife watches them from across a creek. There is a young deer fawn standing there with large spots on its back. When it's standing, its legs are clear of spots and just solid brown. Yet as the fawn starts to lay down, the spots move across its fur and when it's fully lying down, the spots are now on its back legs and knee. (00:00:40)

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Continuity mistake: After the fawn lays down next to the creek, watching the dwarves dance by playing music, the spot on the fawn's front shoulder blinks out of existence for a frame, then comes back. (00:00:40)

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Revealing mistake: When Persephone is brought to her throne, she takes a bow. Watch the fawn next to the throne; in that moment, for a few frames, one of his legs disappears. And there's an animation glitch where a white line shaped like his leg appears on his body, then flickers up for about 3 or 4 frames before his leg returns to normal. (00:01:10)

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Continuity mistake: As Persephone is being escorted to her throne and dancing, a fawn is standing next to it and perfectly still. As Persephone stands and her arm passes over the image of the fawn, its nose suddenly fades to white. Then, as she's about to sit down, the nose blinks black, then white, then black again. (00:01:15)

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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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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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