Directed by: Wilfred Jackson
Starring: Kenny Baker, Jessica Dragonette, Tudor Williams
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)
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)
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)
Trivia: This short was used as the testing grounds by Walt Disney and his team for the realistic and fluid animations for the people moving around that they would later use and perfect for Snow White. A lot of the aesthetics of this short very closely resemble what Snow White would become, as well as a lot of the animal designs and motions resemble what would also become Bambi.
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.
