Winter (Short 1930)

Winter (Short 1930). 7m | TV-G

“Well I have now reviewed all four of the season themed Silly Symphony cartoon shorts and out of them I think I liked Summer the best. This on the other hand just didnu0026#39;t do it for me, it has some nice touches to it but I just mainly found it disappointing, it was just very bland and mediocre to me, just another average forest critters dancing to music type romp, and Iu0026#39;m afraid that I found most of these critters to be annoying rather than charming. Most of them had faces like Mickey or maybe the lame Oswald Rabbit. I didnu0026#39;t like their designs, maybe it was the quality of the particular version of the short that I watched, but most of them looked like black blobs whou0026#39;s features you could barely make out except for their ugly rubber limbs. Frightfully basic stuff.. And again maybe it was just the version I saw but the sound was really scratchy and so bad that it hurt my ears, sound-wise time was not kind to thee Winter! I know that at this point in time it was the formula they were sticking with and a winning one at that, but I thought the happy dancing route seemed a bit at odds with the season of ice, they should have tried for something a little deeper, possibly even a little downbeat? What I did like the most about it was some of the smaller background details, they were surprisingly beautiful and rich for such a rough short. It was good to see that at least in that regard the animators were fast improving. I did love the icy snowstorm that blows at the beginning, that was one thing that the Disney animators never seemed to have any trouble with right from the start. A cute enough short, but no favourite of mine in this great series. And…curtains!”