Movie: Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

Top 4 Billed Cast

Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson

Professor Owl / Bertie Birdbrain

Loulie Jean Norman
Loulie Jean Norman

Penelope Pinfeather

Gloria Wood
Gloria Wood

Susy Sparrow

Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Ravenscroft

The Mellomen

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1953-11-10

  • Average

    6.6

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
  • Tagline

    A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.

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  • Languages:

    English
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