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Pluto: Very well, I'll let you go But! You must promise to return and spend half of every year down here.
Well, what do you say? (00:07:25)

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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. (00:06:55)

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Pluto: What? You still are sad? Your constant tears will drive me mad!
I'm willing to do anything you say, If only you smile, Be a little bit gay! (00:06:30)

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Pluto: Come, come my queen, Dry the tears from your eyes I give you this diamond, Behold its size. (00:06:07)

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Singing Narrator: The world above, Grew sad and lonely, Cold winter winds were blowing.
And everywhere, The woodland creatures, Were in despair and grieving, For their lovely goddess. (00:05:21)

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Pluto: Fairest of maidens, I've chosen you to be queen of my kingdom. Below! (00:02:40)

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Singing Narrator: The flowers danced around her, They formed a wreath and crowned her.
The Goddess of Eternal Spring! The Goddess of Eternal Spring! (00:01:45)

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Singing Narrator: There once was a time, In the long, long ago, When there was joy and laughter everywhere. When the flowers that grew, Blossomed all the year through, And the world was eternally fair. (00:00:32)

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Singing Narrator: For there lived a maiden, So gentle was she, That all the world loved her tenderly.
And life was then so pleasant, That joy was ever present, And the world grew more lovely each day. (00:00:56)

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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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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.

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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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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: The number of elves is usually the same, but their hat colors vary greatly from scene to scene. In the beginning, there's turquoise, purple, pink, and yellow. When Persephone is first going to sit, there are no purple ones, and the turquoise are more blue. When they are dancing around her throne, it is only yellow and turquoise. When Pluto arises, they are yellow, pink, purple, and turquoise again. After Persephone is dragged to the underworld, it's the same colors, but also now dark blue, red, and orange ones appear. Then, when winter is starting, and they are shivering outside, it's back to pink, purple, yellow, and turquoise. Then, in their last scene, dancing around her, once again only yellow and turquoise. (00:00:38 - 00:09:05)

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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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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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