Rainbow War is a 1985 Oscar-nominated 19-minute animated/live action short film created for Expo 86, the 1986 World's Fair in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
[2] Notable cast members include Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie of Whose Line is it Anyway fame.
The Blue king sees him in his ring, leaving a trail of yellow light through the air, and gets an idea of his own; a blue hot air balloon, which his people can also use to visit the other lands!
The Yellow queen then realizes that with the golden rings the boy has created, she can invade the other kingdoms.
The Red army, using a giant fire hydrant, coats the whole area with red paint, and when it mixes with the other paints on the field, they discover orange and purple, and the soldiers from all sides again are entranced and overjoyed over these new ideas.
While standing on a bridge, the Red princess falls into the river, which is now flowing with paint from all three kingdoms.
Before she can fall into the void between the worlds, she grabs the branch of a cliffside tree.
When they see what their stupid war has caused, the soldiers of all three kingdoms throw down their paintbrushes and join forces to reach the princess.
But just in time, the Yellow boy soars through the air on his ring, saving the princess, and splashing through the paint waterfall in the process.
Now the ring leaves a trail of all colors, both primary and secondary, and the soldiers and kings are overjoyed at the sight of the very first rainbow, not to mention the rescue of the princess.
The Blue King, though he looks skeptical at first at the rainbow, slowly smiles in appreciation of its beauty.