Underplayed Gems

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom poster
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
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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.

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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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