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Tulips Shall Grow

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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })"Tulips Shall Grow" is a 1942 animated short film (7 minutes) written and directed by George Pal, using Pal's "Puppetoons" style of stop-motion animation that involved intricate carved wooden puppets.The film is set in the Netherlands. A Dutch boy named Jan falls in love with a girl named Janette, who lives in a windmill. He plays his accordion for her, and she bakes him a cake. Their idyllic romance is shattered when the "Screwballs", an aggressive military force consisting of literal metal balls with screws in them, come barreling into Holland. (The Nazis had conquered the Netherlands in 1940.) The Screwballs turn the land into a blasted waste. Luckily, the Screwballs are defeated when it rains and they rust through. Jan finds Janette in the shattered ruin of her windmill, and they are reunited as the tulips grow back.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Down on the Farm
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Down on the Farm: A boy and a girl in the rural flatlands of Holland.
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Deus ex Machina
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Deus ex Machina: Just when Jan is in the depths of despair, the rain comes and rusts all the Screwballs.
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Always Chaotic Evil
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Always Chaotic Evil: The Screwballs, who blast hell out of everything.
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Land of Tulips and Windmills
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Land of Tulips and Windmills: The short is an allegory of the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, with the two main characters a boy and girl depicted in traditional Dutch clothes cavorting through tulip fields.
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Karmic Death
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Karmic Death: The Screwballs suffer this fate, when the subsequent rainstorm literally rusts them all to death before they can escape.
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Killer Robot
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Killer Robot: The Screwballs, scary robots that blast the hell out of Holland.
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It's Raining Men
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It's Raining Men: Hell, it rains tanks.
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Kill It with Water
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Kill It with Water: The Screwballs are defeated when they rust in the rain.
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Happy Ending
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Happy Ending: The Screwballs are defeated by rust, the windmill is repaired (it actually reassembles itself), and the fields bloom with tulips again.
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