Tulips Shall Grow

Tulips Shall Grow

1942 · 7 min · ★ 6.8 · Animation, War

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.

Directed by George Pal · Written by George Pal

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