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Released
1939 · FILM

The Blue Danube

Runtime
7 min
Animation

Synopsis

A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. As the music picks up, a water wheel appears, followed by a dancing fairy emerging from a whirlpool and beginning to sing, to the delight of small woodland creatures. The birds awaken sleeping cherubs, who begin harvesting all things blue and adding them to the river. The birds also participate, harvesting the color blue from the rainbow. Everyone tugs to open a floodgate and unleash the cerulean waters. A swan, festively decorated, leads a gondola of sorts lit by fireflies.

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Principal cast & crew: 5

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