Underplayed Gems

Melody (1953)

Melody poster
Directed by
Charles August Nichols, Ward Kimball
Genre
musical film
Country
United States
Runtime
10 min
Rated
NR
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This short animated film teaches the basics of music. It shows how different sounds and rhythms combine to create melodies.

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What happens

Melody is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols. Originally released on May 28, 1953, this film was the first in a proposed series of animated cartoon shorts teaching the principles of music, called Adventures in Music. Only one other entry in the series was produced, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, which was released later that same year, winning an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) the following year. Walt Disney was always a fan of music, and it shows in all of his films. He said: "There's a terrific power to music. You can run any of these pictures and they'd be dragging and boring, but the minute you put music behind them, they have life and validity they don't get any other way". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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