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1938 American film
Farmyard Symphony
is a 1938
Silly Symphonies
animated short film.
[1]
It can be seen as a precursor to
Fantasia
due to using various pieces of classical music in one short. The film was directed by
Jack Cutting
and produced by
Walt Disney
.
[2]
An adaptation of the short was featured in the
Silly Symphony
comic strip
over six weeks, from October 23 to November 27, 1938, around the time of the film's theatrical release. While the short doesn't have much of a story, the comic adaptation expands on a running gag involving a piglet looking for food, giving one of the piglets distinctive markings and a name (Spotty), and turns the gag into a short narrative.
[3]
Spotty Pig also appeared in a nine-page story in the
Silly Symphonies
comic book issue #2 (1953).
[4]
Plot
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Set to various classical pieces, the animals of a farmyard go about their daily business. The highlight is a rooster wooing a white hen, with the other animals joining in until they hear a sound more welcoming to them: the call of feeding time.
Pieces included
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In order of appearance, the film includes the following pieces and arias:
- Third movement (
Allegro
) from
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"
, by
Ludwig van Beethoven
and Overture to
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by
Otto Nicolai
- played under the opening credits and in the very first scene.
- First and third part from
William Tell
Overture
by
Gioacchino Rossini
- starting when the bull is waking up.
- Overture from
The Barber of Seville
, by Rossini - foal waking up and piglets eating.
- Allegretto grazioso
(Op. 62, No. 5) from
Songs Without Words
by
Felix Mendelssohn
, popularly known as "Spring Song" - played while the calf and the foal chase each other.
- "
Garryowen
" - while the geese are marching.
- Overture to
Semiramide
, by Rossini - during the rooster's strut and when he wakes up the chickens.
- "
La donna e mobile
" from
Rigoletto
by
Giuseppe Verdi
- "clucked" by the rooster and the white hen; this metamorphoses into a variation of "Miserere" from Act 1 of
Il trovatore
, also by Verdi, when all the other animals join in.
- Final part ("March of the Swiss Soldiers") of
William Tell
overture, by Rossini, going into
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
by
Franz Liszt
- while the animals are eating.
- "Tannhauser" Overture
, by
Wagner
- ending scene, Spotty eating corn.
In addition to the above pieces, the film features a few excerpts adapted by
Leigh Harline
from traditional tunes (such as the one to which "Chick, chick, chick, chick..." is sung by the peasant woman), as well as original orchestral passages of his, which have no classical source.
Voice cast
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Home media
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The short was released on December 4, 2001, on
Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies - The Historic Musical Animated Classics
,
[5]
as an Easter egg in the "Accent on Music" section.
[2]
Prior to that, the featurette also appeared on the
Walt Disney Cartoon Classics Limited Gold Edition: Silly Symphonies
VHS in the 1980s. It is also a bonus on the
Make Mine Music
DVD.
References
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- ^
Mullaney, Dean, ed. (2016).
Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies Volume 1: The Complete Disney Classics
. San Diego, CA: IDW Publishing. p. 192.
ISBN
9781631408045
.
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a
b
c
Merritt, Russell; Kaufman, J. B. (2016).
Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series
(2nd ed.). Glendale, CA:
Disney Editions
. pp. 204?205.
ISBN
978-1-4847-5132-9
.
- ^
Taliaferro, Al; Osborne, Ted; De Maris, Merrill (2016).
Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics, vol 2
. San Diego: IDW Publishing.
ISBN
978-1631408045
.
- ^
"Silly Symphonies #2"
.
Inducks
. Retrieved
27 July
2019
.
- ^
"Silly Symphonies: The Historic Musical Animated Classics DVD Review"
.
DVD Dizzy
. Retrieved
20 February
2021
.
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