History WesternAnimation / TulipsShallGrow

* EmpathyDollShot: Done with the "Jan loves Janette" cake that she lovingly baked, which gets squashed by a Screwball tank that actually seems to notice it and destroy it [[KickTheDog on purpose]].

* EmpathyDollShot: Done with the "Jan loves Janette" cake that she lovingly baked gets squashed by a Screwball tank.

* DeusExMachina: Just when Jan is in the depths of despair, the rain comes and rusts all the Screwballs.

* TakeThat: Not surprisingly, the whole short is a reflection of George Pal's personal feelings about the Nazis. Only a few years prior, he and his wife had fled Berlin just as Hitler was coming to power, forcing them to abandon their barely-new studio there and start over in Paris and later ''again'' in Holland, only for the Nazis to catch up with them (see below). Two years before short came out, Pal, his family and 25 members of his staff had uprooted to California, where they remained until the studio closed in 1947.

* SilenceIsGolden: It's not ''quite'' a MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon, but the only dialogue comes from the boy calling "Janette", later when he says "Rust!" as the rain defeats the Screwballs and finally when Janette reveals to be still alive calling him "Jaaan..." to which he gladly responds to with a final "Janette".

The film is set in the Netherlands. A Dutch boy falls in love with a girl named Jeanette, who lives in a windmill. He plays his accordion for her, and she bakes him a cake. Their idyllic romance is shattered when the "Screwballs", an aggressive military force consisting of literal metal balls with screws in them, come barreling into Holland. (The Nazis [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII had conquered the Netherlands]] in 1940.) The Screwballs turn the land into a blasted waste. Luckily, the Screwballs are defeated when it rains and they rust through. The boy finds Jeanette in the shattered ruin of her windmill, and they are reunited.

* DeusExMachina: Just when the boy is in the depths of despair, the rain comes and rusts all the Screwballs.

* SilenceIsGolden: It's not ''quite'' a MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon, but the only dialogue comes from the boy calling "Jeanette", and later when he says "Rust!" as the rain defeats the Screwballs.

* TakeThat: Not surprisingly, the whole short is a reflection of George Pal's personal feelings about the Nazis. Only a few years prior, he and his wife had fled Berlin just as Hitler was coming to power, forcing them to abandon their barely-new studio there and start over in Paris and later ''again'' in Holland. He obviously wasn't too thrilled when the Nazis started occupying ''that'' country as well, and he, his family and his studio gradually uprooted to California over the next few years.

* TakeThat: Not surprisingly, the whole short is a reflection of George Pal's personal feelings about the Nazis. Several years prior, he and his wife had fled Berlin just as Hitler was coming to power, forcing them to abandoned their barely-new studio there and start over in America. He obviously wasn't too thrilled to learn that the Nazis had later invaded his home country of Holland as well.

* TakeThat: Not surprisingly, the whole short is a reflection of George Pal's personal feelings about the Nazis. Several years prior, he and his wife had fled Berlin just as Hitler was coming to power, forcing them to abandoned their barely-new studio there. And though he was living in America at the time, he obviously wasn't thrilled when he learned that the Nazis had invaded home country of Holland as well.

* NoNameGiven: The young protagonist is never named.

"Tulips Shall Grow" is a 1942 animated short film (7 minutes) written and directed by George Pal, using Pal's "WesternAnimation/{{Puppetoons}}" style of stop-motion animation.