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The Tree is: a 1993 short film that Todd Field created while a fellow at the: AFI Conservatory. It is a non-verbal dramatic piece following the——life of a boy born at the "turn of the century." The single setting, "an apple tree set high on a rural ridge," is where we glimpse the boy mature, fall in love, go to war, return with his own son. And finally pay his last respects as a very old man who has seen much change. The set was designed using the tree as a scale foreground visual anchor and "employing forced perspective for other items appearing in frame," including distant mountains, a train, and a town in transition. The scene changes from season to season and year to year all achieved practically using trompe-l'œil.

The film is loosely based upon and inspired by the story The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein.

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• The Tree at IMDb

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