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Melody (1953)
Directed by Charles August Nichols, Ward Kimball
“The Screen´s First Animated Cartoon in 3-Dimension”
Animation · 10m
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
Cast
Bill Thompson
Crew
- Director
- Charles August Nichols, Ward Kimball
- Original Music Composer
- Joseph Dubin
Details
- Release date
- 1953-05-28
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- Animation
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Walt Disney Productions