Frogs (The Old Mill)

The Frogs are characters featured in the 1937 Silly Symphony short The Old Mill.
==Background==
===Personalities===
Although they do not talk, the frogs are shown to be social when it comes to croaking at night to show as a means of vocalizing. At first, they became curious of what to do at night, but when they started croaking, they find their sounds ideal enough as a way of singing and communicating with each other. Despite this, they are shown to be sensitive when it comes to other sounds interrupting such as the sound of crickets chirping, although they and the crickets work together in providing music across the pond. Despite this, they occasionally become distracted whenever an insect passes by such as when one firefly passed by a frog which later consumes it. They are also shown to be nervous whenever a storm arrives such as the case when a wind passes through their pond, causing the frogs to retreat in fear.
===Physical appearances===
The frogs, as their names imply, are amphibians with green skin all over their body (the common colors of frogs) with black stripes and spots located on their backs. Each frog has two big yellow eyes with black pupils in them with all of them each having orange feet.
==Appearances==
===The Old Mill===
One frog is seen emerging from a lily pad where it croaks and leaps onto a lily pad adjacent to it, while another frog appears on the lily pad the first frog was standing on. As the two croak together, they find out that they are capable of vocalizing through music. The frogs all croak together during a quiet night altogether, only for their croaking session to be interrupted when they hear crickets chirping. One of the frogs realizes that it can collaborate in making vocalizations with the crickets. As the frogs continue to croak together, the crickets chirp along together just before a swarm of fireflies pass through. As a firefly passes by one of the frogs, it consumes the firefly just before the frogs continue croaking altogether. However, their croaking session becomes disrupted when a wind passes through the pond, causing them to leap away in retreat as they hide under a lily pad. The frogs do not appear again afterwards, even after the wind.
==Trivia==
*The vocals of the frogs were provided by the late Clarence Nash.
*At one point, a frog is seen eating a firefly. In real life, fireflies are toxic to frogs when they eat them.
*A slightly different colored frog appeared in the short Goofy and Wilbur, where it ate Goofy's grasshopper Wilbur before getting eaten itself by a stork.
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