The Silly Symphonies were the sandbox in which the creative people at Disney could experiment before working on their ambitious feature films, like Snow White and Bambi. Knowing that, it should come as no surprise that David Hand, the director of Birds in the Spring, was the supervising director on both of those features. The titular birds in this charming short are animated in the hyperreal way that was Disney’s signature at the time. There’s no dialogue in this short – the birds communicate with each other in perfectly timed chirps, in sync with the melodies of Bert Lewis and Frank Churchill.
