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La déesse du printemps

Original title: The Goddess of Spring
  • 1934
  • Approved
  • 10m
IMDb RATING
6.6/10
1.5K
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La déesse du printemps (1934)
AnimationFamilyFantasyMusicalShort

The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.

  • Director
    • Wilfred Jackson
  • Writer
    • William Cottrell
  • Stars
    • Kenny Baker
    • Jessica Dragonette
    • Tudor Williams
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    • Director
      • Wilfred Jackson
    • Writer
      • William Cottrell
    • Stars
      • Kenny Baker
      • Jessica Dragonette
      • Tudor Williams
    • 18User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Kenny Baker
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    • Singing Narrator
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    Jessica Dragonette
    Jessica Dragonette
    • Goddess of Spring
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    • (uncredited)
    Tudor Williams
    • Pluto
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Wilfred Jackson
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      • William Cottrell
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    8OllieSuave-007

    Clever retelling of the Greek mythology.

    For some reason the animation in this cartoon doesn't make it appear to be a Disney Silly Symphony. Still, it's a pretty good cartoon that tells the story of the goddess Persephone, kidnapped by Hades, causing Spring to prematurely turn into Winter.

    It's also a rather exciting cartoon short, as well, and a clever retelling of the Greek mythology. The narration and dialog were all beautifully sung and the characters were delightful to watch.

    Grade B
    9Hitchcoc

    Very Lyrical and Visually Stunning

    PiThis is obviously the story of Hades and Persephone. As the beauty of summer gives way to winter, she is forced to live underground in a sort of hell. There's more to the story, but suffice it to say that this was an explanation for the change of seasons. Spring is a beautiful young woman and Hades is the stereotypical devil (not really the Greek entity). His operatic voice is stunning and his pleasing must be fore eternity. She is always going tor return.
    6lee_eisenberg

    seasonal worker

    This entry in the Silly Symphonies adapts the story of Persephone (Proserpina in Latin). "The Goddess of Spring" depicts the title character in an idealistic setting until Hades (Pluto in Latin) kidnaps her. Since she can't be happy in Hell, they have to reach a settlement.

    Obviously this is a loose adaptation. As in Disney's "Hercules", Hades gets depicted as a rendering of Satan; in Greek mythology, the underworld had no relation to the modern understanding of Hell.

    It's an okay cartoon. I've always been more partial to Warner Bros.'s cartoons, since they had an irreverent side (in contrast to Disney's "nice" cartoons). Jessica Dragonette (the goddess) also voiced Princess Glory in Fleischer Studios' "Gulliver's Travels". Kenny Baker (the narrator) is not to be confused with the actor who played R2D2.
    tedg

    The One Not Chosen

    There may be no better example of emergence of cinematic genius than to watch this and then see "Snow White."

    This is a study in human modelling, in the context of dwarfs and nature. Its after the style of the Betty Boop work that controlled expectations on the animated screen with a little bit more grace. But it still features thin figures with cartoon movements rather than human ones. It was done as a test for Snow White.

    Almost nothing here was used in that later project and its a good thing. There is nothing attractive about it at all.

    But I can still see a serious attempt at finding that vocabulary of movements that seems human but isn't, looks natural and warm but is abstract and seems to capture a version of womanhood without referencing sex. Its only hinted here and perfected in a way later. I'm not at all sure if we can know whether in Snow White Walt and company touched something we knew, or whether he created something that we grew into with our ideals and imagination. I believe it is the latter, which makes this experiment more interesting.

    Suppose he would have stuck with what he had here. Would we have grown around it and adapted a wholly different vision of innocent perfection?

    Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
    7ackstasis

    "So know you know the reason, why there's a winter season, instead of eternal spring"

    'The Goddess of Spring (1934)' is a beautiful "Silly Symphony" from Walt Disney and director Wilfred Jackson, filmed in glorious Technicolor of which full advantage is taken. The film was produced as a trial-run for the the feature-length 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937),' largely to experiment with the animation of humans. The progress made in the subsequent three years is startlingly apparent – the heroine in this film has a pretty and graceful face, but there's very little grace in her movements. The Goddess of Spring prances around her vibrant above-ground kingdom, limbs flailing somewhat awkwardly, her gait completely unrealistic, though perhaps it was the animators' intention to have her slightly floating above the ground, as though her loveliness affords her the weightless waltz of an angel. Suddenly, the sky grows dark and the ground erupts into fire, signalling the arrival of the wicked Hades, who kidnaps the beautiful Goddess to be queen of his underground kingdom. With the fair maiden's departure, the lands are plunged into a cold, bitter winter.

    This Silly Symphony was loosely based upon the Ancient Greek mythology of Persephone and Hades, and so the tone of cartoon is chiefly that of an epic opera – a bit like 'What's Opera, Doc? (1957),' if you need an easy comparison. The warm, nostalgic singing voice at the film's beginning gives way to the deep, operatic snarl of Hades as he comes to confiscate his future queen. Interestingly, when the pair arrive in the fire-wreathed corridors of Hell, the general atmosphere is that of a jazz club, with disconcertingly upbeat music, and dancing audiences who chant "Hidey Hades." This interpretation of down-below is very different from Ub Iwerks' version five years earlier in 'Hell's Bells (1929),' which was darker and more archaic. The most touching contrast of all is that between the above-ground kingdom's spring and winter, as the bright sunlight swiftly disappears to unleash a miserable snap of cold and bitter winds; the dwarf inhabitants shiver in the snow, and even Bambi makes a brief appearance

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    • Trivia
      Walt Disney and his animators used this short as a test to see if they could create realistic animation, a style they would later perfect in Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains (1937).
    • Connections
      Edited into Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Volume 13: Silly Symphonies - Fanciful Fables (1985)

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    • Release date
      • November 3, 1934 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • A Greek Myth
    • Production company
      • Walt Disney Productions
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      10 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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