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.
00:01:37 And I was down to my last rutabaga.
00:02:18 of my now-famous Rutabaga Rag.
00:03:03 # Let the little syncopater lift you like an elevator
00:04:10 So, I gave them a new sound.
00:04:53 it's up to y'all. So I wrote Louisville Ludwig
00:05:39 # The answer to a flapper's prayer
00:06:35 # Ooh oooh
00:07:25 I wasn't depressed, not on your life.
00:08:04 They started to play it.
00:08:51 There I was, sitting on top of my lonely flagpole
00:09:27 because I knew it was pointless.
00:10:11 which I called "the love ballad."
00:11:50 The perfect group to introduce my new rhythm, boogie woogie.
00:12:31 # Nice fresh hot Oriental cookie
00:13:50 # Why don't you come along and bake, bake, bake
00:14:36 # Oooh oooh oooh
00:15:22 # Puppy love is here to stay
00:16:35 # Yip yip yip yip Bum bum bum bum
00:17:08 I got woofles and tweedles, coaxles and baffles
00:17:45 in living, thrilling, breathing, inhaling stereo.
00:18:22 # And my greasy denim trousers are black, black, black
00:19:15 # I'm gonna rock, rumble and

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 line00:19:15

Production Record

DirectorBill Justice
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes370