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Musical Moments from Chopin
Directed byDick Lundy
Story byBen Hardaway
Milt Schaffer
Produced byWalter Lantz
Music byDarrell Calker
Animation byLaverne Harding
Les Kline
Grim Natwick (unc.)
Paul J. Smith (unc.)
Sid Pillet (effects, unc.)
Backgrounds byFred Brunish
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
February 24, 1947
Running time
7:46
LanguageEnglish

Musical Moments from Chopin (also known as Chopin's Musical Moments)[1] is a 1946 produced Musical Miniature cartoon, co-starring Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker. It was directed by Dick Lundy and was released on February 24, 1947. It was nominated for an Academy Award for best short subject in 1946.

Film

This short starts with Andy Panda performing a Chopin polonaise on stage. As he does so, Woody Woodpecker wanders out and starts polishing the piano, and seems impressed by Andy's playing. Woody then plays along with Andy on the following pieces, either on the same or another grand piano, with increasing cut-aways to the animal audience and their own antics.[2] At some point, a horse who was trying to light his cigar tried to use a ceiling lamp to light it, but accidentally causes it to fall and spread a fire onto the stage. Andy manages to finish his piano performance while Woody extinguishes the flames.

Analysis

The short would be the first Musical Miniature cartoon produced by Walter Lantz Productions, and is one of two cartoons in the series to be nominated for an Academy Award for best short subject (the other Woody Woodpecker's cartoon to receive this honor was the 1943's The Dizzy Acrobat).[3] This was Lundy's eight Academy Award nomination.[4]

Lundy previously tested the concept in the 1946 Andy Panda cartoon, The Poet & Peasant. It was proven to be a success as it was also nominated for an Academy Award. Lundy would direct all of the remaining Musical Miniature cartoons until the studios brief closure.[5]

The short features music by Frédéric Chopin played by Woody and Andy, which includes:

In 1958, the television show The Woody Woodpecker Show premiered, and continued on the air in various forms for the next four decades. Episode 18 of its first season included Musical Moments from Chopin along with other Lantz cartoons, and a making-of involving Walter Lantz and storyboarding.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Results displayed by award category". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d Gengaro, Christine Lee (2017-12-20). Experiencing Chopin: A Listener's Companion. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-4422-6087-0.
  3. ^ Gitlin, Martin; Wos, Joseph (2018-03-15). A Celebration of Animation: The 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters in Television History. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-63076-279-7.
  4. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2006). Who's who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television's Award-winning and Legendary Animators. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 198. ISBN 978-1-55783-671-7.
  5. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (2006). Who's who in Animated Cartoons: An International Guide to Film & Television. Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 217. ISBN 155783671X. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
  6. ^ "Wacky Weed/ Musical Moments From Chopin/A Moment With Walter Lantz/Beach Nut". TV.com. Retrieved June 5, 2015.
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