A Symposium on Popular Songs

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Movie
Original title A Symposium on Popular Songs
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1962
length 20 minutes
Rod
Director Bill Justice
script Xavier Atencio
production Walt Disney
music Sherman Brothers
synchronization

A Symposium on Popular Songs is a 1962 American animated short film directed by Bill Justice .

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The drake Professor Ludwig von Drake invites you to his glamorous estate to present some of his famous pieces of music. At the beginning of his music career he was poor and wore broken clothes ("rags") that he invented ragtime shortly afterwards . The song Rutabaga Rag sounds and fruits and vegetables begin to dance to it. In the 1920s, von Drake invented the Charleston and a flapper resembling Helen Kane begins to sing Charleston Charlie . The Great Depression followed, and von Drake lost his money. He used the last of the dollars to buy a piano and wrote his biggest hit, Although I Dropped $ 100,000 , a jazz track .

His next invention, the microphone, turned Drake into a crooner . This is followed by the title The Love Ballad (Blue for You) . Out of boredom, von Drake makes a silhouette showing three connected women who resemble The Andrews Sisters . These are the ideal cast for a boogie woogie that can now be heard: The title The Boogie Woogie Bakery Man is about a fortune cookie baker who falls in love with a woman. The doo-wop puppy Love Is Here to Stay can be heard on the television program The von Drake Hour , which Ludwig von Drake is now watching on television . Later von Drake goes to his recording studio, where he wants to introduce the audience to the novelty of stereophonic sound, but he has forgotten the record. So von Drake now begins to sing Rockabilly Rock, Rumble and Roar with full use of the drake's body , into which all the songs heard so far are cut. Ludwig von Drake ends the title screaming at the top and his property begins to shake.

production

A Symposium on Popular Songs was released in theaters on December 19, 1962. Individual scenes were realized in stop motion and cut-out animation .

synchronization

role Original speaker
Ludwig von Drake Paul Frees
Andrew Sisters, Helen Kane Gloria Wood
Singer Billy Storm
Bing Crosby Skip Farrell

Awards

A Symposium on Popular Songs was nominated for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film " in 1963 , but could not prevail against The Hole .

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