Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom

A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.

6.6%

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1953-11-10

Animation

Runtime: 10 minutes

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.

Featured Crew

Walt Disney

Producer

Ward Kimball

Director

Dick Huemer

Story