Wynken, Blynken & Nod
Wynken, Blynken & Nod
NR | 27 May 1938 (USA)
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Three sleepy babies in a clog-boat sailing through the night sky attempt to fish with candy canes for very smart fish.

Reviews
Maidgethma Wonderfully offbeat film!
Hulkeasexo it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.
Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
Ogosmith Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
OllieSuave-007 A cutesy cartoon featuring three sleepy children having misadventures on their shoe-boat in the sky, fishing for starfishes, catching comets, and trying to withstand the wind. Again, as with most of these Silly Symphonies, mot much of a plot - just musical scenes that is supposed to be charming to kids mostly. Adults generally would get some good laughs out of cartoons, but this one is strictly for the kids - nothing very entertaining about it. Grade C
Shawn Watson You'd be surprised at the quality of animation in this 75-year-old short. The ugly, cherub-like, children aside, the detail featured in this adaptation of Eugene Field's poem is of the sort usually seen in bigger budget features.Three kids fly though space in their giant wooden shoe while fishing for stars (or fish-stars, rather). They eventually hook a comet and are dragged into a storm cloud and fall back down to Earth where it revealed to be all just a dream.It didn't work for Boxing Helena or Dallas, but I'll accept it here. It's not a particularly famous cartoon, though it still holds up in many aspects today.
TheLittleSongbird Wynken, Blynken and Nod based on the classic poem, is a very relaxing and charming Silly Symphony. Forget the fact that it is a tad thin in terms of story, because everything else is so good.The animation is beautiful, the galactic background was truly stunning. Wynken, Blynken and Nod were absolutely adorable, forgive me for being a bit of a sentimentalist, but I wanted to reach into the television and give them a big hug. The beautiful title song brought some poignancy to the proceedings, and the incidental music throughout the entire short was just outstanding, with a real touch of classic romanticism. Overall, just beautiful. 10/10 Bethany Cox
Neil Doyle WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD has the three sleepy boys sailing off in a wooden shoe into a blue sky floating on crystals while some background music gives some exposition with some vocalizing. It's the start of one of Disney's most appealing cartoons from the late '30s at a time when the studio was really getting a good grip on how to create cartoons that had depth, beauty and finely crafted animation. The multiplane camera, which would be used in most of their feature-length films over the next several years, gives fuller dimension to the lush art work.Pulling Nod from stumbling through a cloud is reminiscent of the stork doing the same to retrieve the sack holding DUMBO from sinking below the clouds. Most of the sight gags involve watching the boys attempt to fish while getting tangled up in their lines and getting resistance from the starfish surrounding their wooden boat. Finally, a friendly storm cloud huffs and puffs to send the wooden ship sailing to earth, whereby we see it returning safely home.Again, there are elements that were used in later Disney films--especially PETER PAN (with the boys flying home and overhead shots of the land below), and the animation for Wynken, Blynken and Nod will remind viewers of "the lost boys" from that Disney epic.An enjoyable treat for any Disney fan.