With a Toot, and a Whistle, and a Plunk, and a Boom...

[Jack]

That's where the music comes from!

I was just watching "Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom" on the Fantasia 2000 DVD, alond with "Melody," and I was just wondering, did Disney release a non-Cinemascope version of this cartoon? Most studios released two versions of Cinemascope cartoons and features when the process was still new, so I assume they did. They also released two versions of their other shorts. Also, I'd like to know what the opening and closing titles are like on the non-Cinemascope version if one exists.

I just remembered how really great these two cartoons are, "Melody" must have neat in 3D...


Jack:D
P.S. Did they ever use those birds ever again? Like in cartoons other than the short lived "Adventured In Music" series.

[Eraserhead]

I remember reading a review (I think it was from dvdcoverage.com) that said this was the last time these birds were featured. Aw well..

By the way, the surround sound on TWPB is excellent!

[Patrick McCart]

CinemaScope not only had a big image, it had 4 track stereo sound (1 dialogue, 1 music, 1 sound effects, and control track)

[Matt Yorston]

I'm pretty sure Disney released two different versions of "Grand Canyonscope" (1954). The CinemaScope version begins with the Ranger lecturing the tourists (standing very close together) about the wonders of the canyon, and then reminding them, "Spread out, please, Folks. This is CinemaScope", upon which the camera dissolves to the next scene in which nothing has changed except that the tourists who were formerly sitting tightly together are now standing side by side with each other spaced rather far apart! A clever reference to the CinemaScope effect itself.

However, I have also seen another version that must have been from the non-CinemaScope version. The scene goes pretty much the same way... it still involves the tourists standing closely together, then shifting them to them standing far apart, except that the ranger's line has been redubbed, "Spread out, please, Folks. This is a wide canyon." Personally, I prefer the CinemaScope version (wonder why?)....