A Symposium on Popular Songs

1962 · 20 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 370 VOTES · DIR. Bill Justice

Overview

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.

AnimationComedyMusic1960s

Dialogue Timeline — 295 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:59 Hello, there.
00:01:34 Around the turn of the century, I was a starving musician.
00:02:15 Now I'm going to give you a demonstration
00:02:59 # By the numbers Broccoli and celery and cool cucumbers
00:04:06 They said, Ludwig, give us a new sound in popular music.
00:04:44 y'all had just better put old Dixie on the map".
00:05:34 # He's got savoir faire
00:06:29 # Ga ga Whoo hoo hoo
00:07:21 because all my money was lost
00:07:58 Soon every band in the nation picked it up and threw it out.
00:08:36 # Now I am singin' in the bread line all the while
00:09:18 Delicious. And you looked up at me and smiled.
00:10:02 Eh... microphone.
00:11:43 And by sheer accident...
00:12:20 # When he's bakin' fortune cookies in a pan
00:12:55 # Boogie woogie cookies in a pan
00:14:21 They are featuring some of my old-time tunes, or last week's hits.
00:15:01 # Puppy love is here to stay
00:16:19 # Puppy love is here to stay
00:16:55 This is my hi-fi studio.
00:17:31 Not my credit card.
00:18:09 # I'm gonna rock, rumble and roar
00:19:03 # The Charleston A boop boop be boop
00:19:33 # I'm gonna rock, rumble and roar #

Cast & Characters

Paul Frees Ludwig Von Drake Paul Frees Al Jolson Gloria Wood The Andrews Sisters singing The Boogie Woogie Bakery Man Gloria Wood Helen Kane Billy Storm Man Singing Puppy Love Is Here to Stay Skip Farrell Bing Crosby Ray Bauduc Musician-Percussion Danny Best Musician-Trumpet and Cornet Nick Fatool Musician-Percussion Justin Gordon Musician-Tenor Sax Manny Klein Musician-Trumpet Abe Lincoln Musician-Trombone

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed295
Dialogue density14.8 lines / min
First line00:00:59
Final line00:19:33

Production Record

DirectorBill Justice
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes370