Tulips Shall Grow

A wartime allegory using stop-motion animation to depict the invasion of a peaceful Dutch countryside by dehumanized mechanical forces, balancing intimate human connection against industrial destruction and spiritual resilience.

In this Puppetoon animated short film (an Academy Award Best Short Subject, Cartoons nominee), a young Dutch couple find their idyllic countryside being overrun by unfeeling, unthinking mechanical men and machines that lay waste to everything in their path. In 1997 this film, deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.