Today we viewed Walt Disney's "The Old Mill" (1937). The animation opens with a ws of a spider-web, intact, and slowly zooms into an old mill. It has gentle serene music playing as it shows ducks, and love birds all enjoying the old mill in peace. It goes up the mill to introduce an owl and sleeping bats. The bats awake and fly out of the mill. You then see frogs with very expressive eyes croaking in harmony with the crickets. Then a storm batters the old mill and the music becomes menacing and evil. The owl gets soaked, the mother bird almost gets crushed and mayhem generally ensues. The storm passes the bats return and the camera zooms out and the final shot is off a broken spiders web.
This movie was brilliantly animated and the music added much to its atmosphere. The whole animation exuded an atmosphere which took the viewer to a cartoon world, which was clearly cartoon, but felt of so realistic.
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