Backgrounds from Hugh Harman’s pride and joy, Peace on Earth (1939). The background artist is uncredited. So is the effects animator who drew the slow-moving clouds.
Harman and his artists had come a long way from Sinkin’ in the Bathtub.
One of the only examples of where Hugh's desire to keep up/mimic Disney produced something Walt hadn't done yet, though I suppose once "Snow White" came out and showed the drama could be movingly portrayed in animation, Hugh realized it could work as well in shorts, and you could do a cartoon with a downbeat ending, if the subject was right (though even here, the idea of a dramatic Christmas-time cartoon release was two years behind Art Davis and Sid Marcus' "The Little Match Girl" at Columbia).
One of the only examples of where Hugh's desire to keep up/mimic Disney produced something Walt hadn't done yet, though I suppose once "Snow White" came out and showed the drama could be movingly portrayed in animation, Hugh realized it could work as well in shorts, and you could do a cartoon with a downbeat ending, if the subject was right (though even here, the idea of a dramatic Christmas-time cartoon release was two years behind Art Davis and Sid Marcus' "The Little Match Girl" at Columbia).
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