The Blue Danube
1939 · 7 MIN · IMDB 6.8 · 234 VOTES · DIR. Hugh Harman
Overview
A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. As the music picks up, we see a water wheel, then a dancing fairy emerges from a whirlpool and begins singing, to the delight of small woodland creatures. The birds awaken sleeping cherubs, who begin their work of harvesting all things blue and adding them to the river. The birds even do their part, 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.
Dialogue Timeline — 10 lines
00:02:05 Away to the lake
00:02:11 Where soft woodland shade
00:02:14 Afreshened with dew
00:02:18 Needs garlands of blue
00:02:22 Bring baskets of flowers
00:02:25 From beautiful bowers
00:02:29 We'll work and we'll sing As we bring
00:02:34 Colors bright to Danube blue
00:02:37 From the rainbows hue And the violet blue
00:02:40 Gather flowers, lovely flowers
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed10
Dialogue density1.4 lines / min
First line00:02:05
Final line00:02:40
Production Record
DirectorHugh Harman
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes234