Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)

Directed by

Charles August Nichols, Ward Kimball

Genre

documentary film, musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 78 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An animated short that explains the brass, woodwind, string, and percussion sections of an orchestra. It uses stylized visuals and music to show the origins of each instrument family.

educationallivelyplayfulupbeatfast-pacedwhimsicalnostalgicinstructive

What happens

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols. A sequel to the first Adventures in Music cartoon, the 3-D short Melody (released earlier in 1953), Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a stylized presentation of the evolution of the four orchestra sections: the brass ("toot"), the woodwind ("whistle"), the strings ("plunk"), and the percussion ("boom"). The first Disney cartoon to be filmed and released in widescreen CinemaScope, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom won the 1954 Oscar for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). In 1994, it was voted #29 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. The short was originally released to theaters on November 10, 1953, and was the first release by Buena Vista Distribution, a distribution company established by Walt Disney. When Disney's regular distributor RKO Radio Pictures resisted Disney's idea of releasing a feature-length True-Life Adventures nature documentary film, Disney formed his own distribution company to handle future Disney releases. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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