Hungarian Rhapsody No 2

[Brock]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbQVy6mxf0y/?igsh=MXdydG9yMjJqdjh4eQ==

[Subdeacon Joe]

That's great!

 

But when the next one came up.- stuffed challa:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY4LKUuIdVU/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

A whole new rabbit hole. 

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

Well...

The first ever time this music was seen in a cartoon was in a Mickey Mouse short where a part of the movie was about him playing it on the piano as part of the evening's entertainment.

But the first cartoon to devote the entire show to it was A Car Tune Portrait by the Fleischer Bros. studio.  (The people that gave us Betty Boop.)
 

 

 

 

[Eyesa Horg]

3 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

That's great!

 

But when the next one came up.- stuffed challa:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DY4LKUuIdVU/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

A whole new rabbit hole. 

Well now that looked good 😊 

[H. K. Uriah, SASS #74619]

Interesting trivia about A Cat Concerto.   It did indeed with the cartoon Oscar for that year, but there is more too it than that.   Hanna-Barbera were indeed working on this cartoon, and they were pinning their Oscar hopes on it for that year.

But unknown to them, Friz Freleng over at Warner Bros. was working on Rhapsody Rabbit, which had Bugs playing the same tune on the piano whilst fitting the resident of the piano mouse.   

Well, the story goes that the the people who developed the films sent the prospective studios the wrong work prints.   WB got the MGM cartoon, and MGM got the WB cartoon.   In a panic, H-B rushed Concerto to the finish line and submitted it to the Academy before Friz could finish Rhapsody, and when the two cartoons were screened for the Academy, luck of the draw showed them the MGM film first, and it won the Oscar.   Friz and Bugs were robbed!

Over the years from the late 1920s to the 2000s this song was an animation stable, mostly by WB, but others did use it.   The history of its use in animation is quite fascinating.


 

[Blackwater 53393]

Here’s the other one…

 

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

Bugs Bunny introduced us kids to a lot of classical music.

 

The Rabbit of Seville and What's Opera Doc were some of the best.

 

 

Don't forget Mickey Mouse in Fantasia

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

Carl Stalling was a genius. His partnership with Warner Bros was spectacular. 
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_W._Stalling

 

And the MGM Hanna/Barbara cartoons produced by Fred Quimby were works of art.  I learned to love big band music of the 1940s from them.  

[Brock]

the difference with this cartoon was that the notes are all accounted for with the keys and hammers.