Tulips Shall Grow

Name: Tulips Shall Grow
Genre: Animation, War
Released: 1942-01-26
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Victor Jory

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1942

Release Year

7 min

Runtime

Animation

War

Overview

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.

Keywords

prayer

netherlands

windmill

invasion

destruction

thunderstorm

desolation

young couple

puppetoon

replacement animation

rust

bombed church

screwballs

animation

Cast

Victor Jory

(voice)

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7.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 12, 2026

7/10

This is like a Nazi’s do the “War of the Worlds” as an idyllic Dutch scenario is suddenly trampled over by an army of metallic robots. From the ground they decimate all they encounter, they even have tanks and then from the air their aircraft drop incendiaries by the dozen. With their town in ruins,…

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