Autumn
About Autumn
Squirrels pack nuts and corn. One nut grows legs and becomes a caterpillar. Crows steal corn and hide it in a scarecrow. A skunk wrecks a pumpkin that will not fit. A porcupine spears apples on its quills and stores them in a log. Beavers build a dam and chop a tree in time. Ducks eat water plants until one gets a shoe stuck on its head. Wind starts the migration. Beavers go into the dam, the porcupine into the log. The skunk tries to join them, fails, and climbs a tree, scaring the squirrels. Crows pack into the scarecrow, and a smaller crow is snatched inside.
Cast & crew
More about Autumn
Ub Iwerks directed and animated this seventh Silly Symphony. Carl W. Stalling composed. Walt Disney produced. Columbia Pictures released it on 13 February 1930. It runs 6 minutes 24 seconds. It is the last Disney short both Iwerks and Stalling finished before they left to form Animated Pictures. It follows Springtime and Summer and comes before Winter in the season set.
Themes
Making
Iwerks times the beaver’s chopping and the animals’ hiding to Stalling’s score. There is no dialogue plot. The first snow is the last cue.
Music
Carl W. Stalling’s score carries the beaver chop, the migration wind, and the last scramble into shelter. It is his last Disney Silly Symphony.
Preservation
A print of about six and a half minutes survives.
Notes
- The scarecrow is the crows’ barn.
- The skunk cannot get into the dam or the log, so the tree is the leftover shelter.
- A shoe on a duck’s head is the water gag.
- A Commons copy carries the 1930 title.
Scenes
- A nut walks off as a caterpillar.
- Crows stuff corn into the scarecrow.
- Beavers fell a tree on the beat.
- The skunk in the tree flushes the squirrels as the crows disappear into the scarecrow.
Influenced by
- Springtime (1929)
- Summer (1930)
Influenced
- Winter (1930)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Autumn (1930).webm)
