The Old Mill

The Old Mill

"The Old Mill" is a 1937 "Silly Symphonies" cartoon produced by Walt Disney, directed by Wilfred Jackson, and released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on November 5, 1937. The film depicts the natural community of animals populating an old abandoned windmill in the country, and how they deal with a violent thunderstorm that nearly destroys their habitat.

Like many of the later "Silly Symphonies", "The Old Mill" was a testing-ground for advanced animation techniques. Marking the first use of Disney's multiplane camera, the film also incorporates realistic depictions of animal behavior, complex lighting and color effects, depictions of rain, wind, lightning, ripples, splashes and reflections, three-dimensional rotation of detailed objects, and the use of timing to produce specific dramatic and emotional effects. All of the lessons learned from making "The Old Mill" would subsequently be incorporated into Disney's feature-length animated films, especially 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".

"The Old Mill" won the 1937 . In 1994 it was voted #14 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. It is ranked at the [http://www.imdb.com/chart/short IMDb top short list] as the 17th greatest short film ever, as of June 2008.

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