Directed by: Wilfred Jackson
Starring: Kenny Baker, Jessica Dragonette, Tudor Williams
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Browsing Disney +, stumbled across this.
This is an interesting little peak into the history of early Disney. This was a very experimental little short and you can tell they were testing out new animation techniques and styles. This little film is pretty interesting in it's own and exploring the potential mythological origins of the changing of the seasons.
but most notably is you can see that this was basically the prototype for both Snow White and Bambi, with the characters, setting, and animals all lying the ground work for when they'd take on the full length films.
Mistake Status: Caught one on the first watch. Decided to go back and check it nearly frame by frame and found many more.
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)
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.