A Symposium on Popular Songs

A Symposium on Popular Songs

Sixty Years of Syncopation...FROM "RAGTIME" TO THE "BIG BEAT"

NR 1962 · 20 min · ★ 5.5 · Animation, Comedy, Music

Professor Ludwig von Drake plays a variety of popular music, all of which he wrote. First, ragtime: the Rutabaga Rag, with vegetables dancing in stop-motion. Next, the Charleston, with cut-out animation of a singer and dancers. Dixieland and more cut-out animation; the crooner/love ballad; 50's doo-wop; and finally, rockabilly.

Directed by Bill Justice · Written by Xavier Atencio

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