The Music Lesson (1953)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The music lesson |
| Original title | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1953 |
| length | 10 mins |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Ward Kimball , Charles A. Nichols |
| script | Dick Huemer |
| production |
Walt Disney for Walt Disney Productions |
| music | Joseph Dubin |
The Music Lesson is a 1953 American animated short film directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols .
action
An owl comes into a classroom and starts a school lesson in front of numerous bird children. The theme is the musical instruments. Every piece of music in a band is based on four basic tones: the toot (= brass , toot ), the flute (= woodwind , whistle ), the plucking (= string instruments , plunk ) and the percussion sound (= percussion , boom ). The development of the individual noises is presented:
The history of tout begins like that of the other instruments with the "caveman". He has a primitive horn that he blows into. The horn was refined by the Egyptians and later developed into an ever longer brass instrument that had to be carried by several horses and was finally bent and dented after a riding accident and could still be played. The variously shaped brass instruments emerged and from this emerged the modern trumpets and similar instruments whose curvature is regulated by valves.
The cave man's flute , who still used it to impress the cave woman, was enlarged by holes that can also be closed mechanically with flaps on modern wind instruments - the cave man, who did not yet know the system, sometimes played with his toes.
The bowed and plucked instruments changed from the cave man's bow to the more elaborate harp . The instruments could again be plucked or played with a bow. A wide variety of stringed instruments appear in quick succession, including a piano.
While the caveman was still beating his stomach to make a drum sound, the owl explains that all instruments that rattle, rattle or produce striking noises were created from this simple principle. The part ends with the entry of a marching band.
In summary, it is explained that all music, be it Japanese, Latin American, African American or Oriental, is based on the four main sounds.
production
The music lesson appeared on November 10, 1953 as part of the Disney animated film series Adventures in Music . It was the first animated film to be published in Cinemascope .
Awards
The Music Lesson won in 1954 the Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ".
At the Festival Internacional de Cine de Donostia-San Sebastián , the film received the Silver Shell as “Best Short Film (Color)”.
Web links
- The music lesson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jerry Beck (Ed.): The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals . Turner Publishing, Atlanta 1994, p. 130.