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* MotionParallax: As far as animation goes, this is the first short film recorded with a Multiplane Camera, then edge-cutting equipment that allowed shooting different pieces of {{art}}work (of the backgrounds and characters) mounted on glass levels at different speeds. Thus resulting in an illusion of depth particularly exploited in the opening scenes.
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** This was the first film to use the Multiplane Camera, which shot artwork on separate levels of glass [[MotionParalax moving at different speeds to create a feeling of depth]]. They are put to spectacular effect in the opening scenes.

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** This was the first film to use the Multiplane Camera, which shot artwork on separate levels of glass [[MotionParalax moving at different speeds to create a feeling of depth]]. They are put to spectacular effect in the opening scenes.
** The handling of the animal characters, as well as the effects animation for all the rain, wind and lightning, is the most realistic attempted at Disney up to that point.


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* GroundByGears: Averted, as a missing spoke is all that saves the mother bird and her eggs from being crushed as the gears are set in motion.
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* ByWallThatIsHoley: A bird has her nest in one of the spokeholes of the millstone. The rope holding the cogwheel in place breaks and the millstone starts to move. The bird, in a desperate attempt to save her eggs, covers them with her body as the nest approaches the cog. She is saved when it turns out the spoke that goes in that particular hole is missing. Unfortunately, the mill doesn't stop and after the millstone fully rotates back around, she has to repeat the save again, and again, and [[OffscreenInertia it's implied that this keeps repeating throughout the storm]].

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* ByWallThatIsHoley: A bird has her nest in one of the spokeholes of the millstone. a large wooden gear. The rope holding the cogwheel in place breaks and the millstone gear starts to move. The bird, in a desperate attempt to save her eggs, bird desperately covers them her eggs with her body as the nest approaches the cog. She is saved when it turns out Fortunately, the spoke that goes in that particular hole is missing. has rotted away, leaving a cavity just big enough for her. Unfortunately, the mill doesn't stop keeps turning, and after the millstone fully rotates back around, she has to repeat duck again and again until lightning strikes the save again, sails and again, and [[OffscreenInertia it's implied that this keeps repeating throughout the storm]].gear comes to a halt.



* MalevolentArchitecture: The storm turns the mill into one, as two birds have nested inside a pit where a cog fits. Thankfully, said cog had weathered away prior to the short's timeframe.

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* HeroicSacrifice: When the nest seems about to be crushed, the mother bird throws herself over her eggs in a desperate attempt to protect them.
* MalevolentArchitecture: The storm turns the mill into one, as two birds have nested inside a pit where a cog fits. Thankfully, said cog had weathered away prior to the short's timeframe.away.
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* AdultFear: The mother bird gets absolutely terrified when the rope retaining the millstone is about to snap and it looks like her eggs are about to get crushed. Even when the nest is shown to be on the one safe spot on the grinding wheel, the poor mother bird has to go through the constant terror of worrying that at any moment she'll lose her eggs until the storm finally ends.
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* AdultFear: The mother bird gets absolutely terrified when the rope retaining the millstone is about to snap and it looks like her eggs are about to get crushed.

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* AdultFear: The mother bird gets absolutely terrified when the rope retaining the millstone is about to snap and it looks like her eggs are about to get crushed. Even when the nest is shown to be on the one safe spot on the grinding wheel, the poor mother bird has to go through the constant terror of worrying that at any moment she'll lose her eggs until the storm finally ends.

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