
Tulips Shall Grow
1942-01-26 · 7 min · ★ 6.8
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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- Directors
- George Pal
- Production companies
- George Pal Productions, Paramount Pictures
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
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