Walt Disney's Adventures in Music (1953)
- 7 years ago
10min | Animation, Short, Family | 28 May 1953 (USA)
An owl teaches his class full of birds about melody. It's all around in nature. Only birds and man can sing; man "sings" even when he speaks. We see a quick survey of the stages of life, as captured by songs: the alphabet song for primary school, Here Comes the Bride, The Old Gray Mare, etc. Some inspirations for song are outlined in song: love, sailing, trains, the West, motherhood, etc., but "we never sing about brains." Finally, an example of how a simple melody can be expanded into a symphony: an elaborate version of the simple tune that opened the lesson.
Directors: Ward Kimball, Charles A. Nichols (as C. August Nichols)
Writer: Dick Huemer (story)
Stars: Loulie Jean Norman, Harry Stanton, Bill Thompson | See full cast & crew »
An owl teaches his class full of birds about melody. It's all around in nature. Only birds and man can sing; man "sings" even when he speaks. We see a quick survey of the stages of life, as captured by songs: the alphabet song for primary school, Here Comes the Bride, The Old Gray Mare, etc. Some inspirations for song are outlined in song: love, sailing, trains, the West, motherhood, etc., but "we never sing about brains." Finally, an example of how a simple melody can be expanded into a symphony: an elaborate version of the simple tune that opened the lesson.
Directors: Ward Kimball, Charles A. Nichols (as C. August Nichols)
Writer: Dick Huemer (story)
Stars: Loulie Jean Norman, Harry Stanton, Bill Thompson | See full cast & crew »