| Melody | |
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| Directed by | Ward Kimball Charles A. Nichols |
| Story by | Dick Huemer |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Starring | Bill Thompson Loulie Jean Norman Harry Stanton Gloria Wood |
| Music by | Joseph Dubin (music) Sonny Burke Paul Webster (songs) |
| Animation by | Ward Kimball Julius Svendsen Marc Davis Harvey Toombs Hal Ambro Marvin Woodward |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 10 minutes (one reel) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Melody is an American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and directed by Ward Kimball and Charles A. Nichols. Originally released on May 28, 1953,[1] this film was the first in a proposed series of animated cartoon shorts teaching the principles of music, called Adventures in Music. Only one other entry in the series was produced, Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom, which was released later that same year, winning an Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons) the following year.
Walt Disney was always a fan of music, and it shows in all of his films. He said: "There's a terrific power to music. You can run any of these pictures and they'd be dragging and boring, but the minute you put music behind them, they have life and validity they don't get any other way".[2]
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 153. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
- ^ Hischack, Thomas. The Disney Song Encyclopedia, Preface