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The Old Mill Pond (1936)

The Old Mill Pond poster
Directed by
Hugh Harman
Genre
animation
Country
United States
Runtime
8 min
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

It's an animated short from the 1930s that follows a frog who sings and dances with other pond creatures. The story is a simple musical showcase of animals putting on a show.

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What happens

The Old Mill Pond is a 1936 American animated short film in the Happy Harmonies series, directed by Hugh Harman for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. The short was nominated at the 1936 Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film but lost to Disney's Silly Symphony short, The Country Cousin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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