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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom(Movie, 1953)

10min | Genre: Animation
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and BoomRating: 3.3/5 (with 3030 votes)
Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols. A sequel to the first Adventures in Music cartoon, the 3-D short Melody (released earlier in 1953), Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom is a stylized presentation of the evolution of the four orchestra sections over the ages with: the brass ("toot"), the woodwind ("whistle"), the strings ("plunk"), and the percussion ("boom"). The first Disney cartoon to be filmed and released in widescreen CinemaScope, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom won the 1954 Oscar for Best Short Subject (Cartoons). In 1994, it was voted #29 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. The short was originally released to theaters on November 10, 1953, and was the first release by Buena Vista Distribution, a distribution company established by Walt Disney. When Disney's regular distributor RKO Radio Pictures resisted Disney's idea of releasing a feature-length True-Life Adventures nature documentary film, Disney formed his own distribution company to handle future Disney ... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

About Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

In this short subject (which mostly represents a departure from Disney's traditional approach to animation), a stuffy owl teacher lectures his feathered flock on the origins of Western musical instruments. Starting with cavepeople, whose crude implements could only "toot, whistle, plunk and boom," the owl explains how these beginnings led to the development of the four basic types of Western musical instruments: brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 7 languages: Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 11/10/1953
Producer: Walt Disney
Screenwriter: Dick Huemer
Composer: Sonny Burke, John Elliot, Charles Elliott
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"热闹的音乐会"
"Adventures in Music: Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom"

442 movies in the Disney Animated Shorts Collection

1925 Alice Gets Stage Struck ("Alice Is Stage Struck")
1927 All Wet
1941 Timber
1942 Bellboy Donald ("Donald Duck: Bellboy Donald")
1943 Pedro
1945 No Sail
1947 Bongo
1953 Melody
1953 Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

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