Tulips Shall Grow

Tulips Shall Grow

6.8IMDb Score
Released:1942-01-26
Duration:7 min
Director:George Pal
Actors:Victor Jory
Production:George Pal Productions, Paramount Pictures

Overview:

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

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