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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
Charles A. NicholsWard Kimball

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

  • Animation

A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.

RELEASE

1953-11-10

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

10 min

Description

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.