Filmed in widescreen VistaVision, its leisurely tone is decidedly European, with pictorial exotic settings (i.The risk-taking film made use of the multi-plane camera (first used in Disney""s own animated, Oscar-winningSilly Symphoniesshort,The Old Mill (1937)) to create an illusion of depth.The water-rights scandal at the heart of the film expresses how ecological rape of the land has occurred in outrageous land-development schemes that redirect the water""s flow.As he parts, he curses the Lintons for their snobbery, promising to repay them some day for taking Cathy away from him:Cathy: Go on, Heathcliff.The creatures were destroying the furniture, putting themselves continually in lethal danger (falling or catapulting, releasing sharp knives, lighting matches, etc.