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Originally Posted by mousepod
Six years was a long time back in the golden age of animation. Heck, "The Old Mill" was only five years later than "Flowers and Trees".
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Exactly, and I'm not up to that part, and after we hung up, I felt I should have had much more to say about this. The Old Mill was so incredibly cinematic, it played like a sweeping epic feature. It holds up as a Silly Symphony, virtual no plot, but a day in the life, but done with the sweep and grandeur of Gone With the Wind. And used as a format to show off the multiplane, it did not overuse it. Reiterates again to me, Ub Iwerks was a genius all the way around and not merely a great animator. But then, I'm totally stating the obvious here.