Line #21 WesternAnimation/WindyDay

Context WesternAnimation / WindyDay

Go To


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/unnamed_841.jpg]]
2
3	''Windy Day'' is a 1968 animated short film (nine minutes) directed by the husband-and-wife team of John and Faith Hubley.
4
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.
6
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).
8
9	----
10	!!Tropes:
11
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.

Context WesternAnimation / WindyDay