To close out our week of music I leave you with two of the greatest animated tributes to music. The first is a highly stylized and delightful short called Toot, Whistle Plunk, and Boom, a part of the educational Adventures in Music Series. The short won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1984. This one is directed by Ward Kimball is is very indicative of his more stylized and less realistic cartooning approach.
The second is a featurette produced by Disney in 1962 called A Symposium on Popular Songs. As you know, Ludwig Von Drake is one of my favorite cartoon characters of all time--probably in the top three. This featurette is written by X Atencio, starring Paul Frees as Ludwig Von Drake, music by the Sherman Brothers, and directed by Bill Justice. It's as if they made it just for me.
The featurette was nominated for and a Academy Award for Best Animated Short, and features some really great original songs that both parody and pay tribute to 20th century music.
Enjoy.
CG
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