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Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 10, 1953

Runtime

0h 10m

Genres

Animation

User Score

66%

Original Title

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

Production Companies

Walt Disney Productions

Director

Charles A. Nichols

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.