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3 | ''Windy Day'' is a 1968 animated short film (nine minutes) directed by the husband-and-wife team of John and Faith Hubley. |
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5 | It stars their children, Emily and Georgia Hubley. The cartoon shows two children wandering about the shore of a lake. Emily starts up "the play", a little make-believe story they have about Prince Joel going off to rescue Jane, his imprisoned sister, but a bored Georgia wrenches the conversation in different directions, ending with a surprisingly profound meditation on death. |
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7 | The conversation sounds impromptu but was actually done by the Hubley girls in a recording studio with prompting from their parents. Compare 1959's ''WesternAnimation/{{Moonbird}}'', another Hubley short that used the voices of their children (in that case, their two sons). |
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12 | * ContinuityCameo: The brothers from ''WesternAnimation/{{Moonbird}}'' make a brief appearance. |
13 | * CrossCastRole: InUniverse. In the play they act out the story of the handsome Prince Joel, who goes off to rescue his sister, Jane, who is being held captive. |
14 | * DragonHoard: The sisters' tale of the adventurous Prince Joel involves him stealing a treasure from a dragon. The dragon keeps his treasure in the bathroom. |
15 | * DreadfulMusician: She admits it! After Georgia toots an off-key rendition of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on a recorder for a while, she says, "I can't play too well." |
16 | * DueToTheDead: The girls discuss the time they found a dead rabbit and buried it, staging a full funeral. This leads to thoughts of death, and a giggling Georgia imagining her sister as an old lady, then making a surprisingly profound observation: "When you're done grow up, you die." |
17 | * EyesDoNotBelongThere: When Emily, as Prince Joel, says she'll poke out the eyes of Georgia the dragon, Georgia shoots back that it won't work, because her dragon has eyes in its feet. |
18 | * FatherIWantToMarryMyBrother: DiscussedTrope after the girls act out Prince Joel rescuing Jane. Emily says, "Do you want to marry me?" Georgia declines. |
19 | * LimitedAnimation: John Hubley pioneered LimitedAnimation at UPA and this short has the typical Hubley look, with watercolors against a simple sketched background. |
20 | * RealLifeWritesThePlot: Georgia Hubley really did get bored with the scripted "play" the kids were supposed to be doing, and really did go on a tangent about the two of them transforming into a giraffe and a kangaroo. Emily's frustration ("You don't want to do the play?") is real. |
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