About Flowers and Trees

Flowers and Trees is a 1932 Silly Symphonies cartoon produced by Walt Disney, and directed by Burt Gillett. This animated film is about two trees, who are in love, being threatened by an evil tree stump. When a fire breaks out, the brave tree manages to save the forest and his love.

Making / Production

Produced by Walt Disney, Flowers and Trees is a significant film, being the first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color, three-strip Technicolor process after several years of two-color Technicolor films.

Actors

• No specific voice actors are credited in the film, as it relied on visual storytelling and musical accompaniment for its performance.

Trivia / Interesting Facts

• Flowers and Trees was originally started in black and white, but was scrapped and restarted in color.
• This is the first ever color cartoon.
• The cartoon needed a budget of $27,500, an enormous amount at the time.

Awards

Notably, Flowers and Trees was the first animated short subject to win an Academy Award. It won the first Academy Award for Animated Short Subjects.

Quotes

• Due to its age and animation style, this film does not contain any spoken dialogue, thus there are no quotes.

Music, Soundtrack

• Music plays an important role in this film. The soundtrack was composed by Bert Lewis and Frank Churchill.
• The film includes a number of musical accompaniments that highlight the narrative structure and complement the visual aesthetic.