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The sheet music for Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing this musical piece, but finds that one of the notes has become drunk.
High Note
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Высокая нота, Haute note, La nota ubriaca, Wysoka nutka
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03 Dec 1960
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Little Brown Jug
Yet another Chuck Jones & Michael Maltese masterpiece!
The sheer inventiveness of this Oscar nominated short is totally off the charts.
"How Dry We Am"
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Good short that uses music notes as a setting in really fun ways. Something about the style made me zone out at points but still enjoyable.
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A brilliant little Looney Tunes one-off. A bunch of musical notes put on a performance, which is derailed by one missing musical note, who, it turns out, is drunk on the job. A fantastically creative idea conveyed in a wonderfully entertaining fashion. Truly a cartoon I'm sure I'll find myself revisiting again and again.
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High Note estreava há 60 anos nos EUA.
Quando Little Brown Jug interferiu no Danúbio Azul. Bem bonitinho.
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Today, my art class went on a school excursion to the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art. It was a very interesting trip and I very much enjoyed the short amount of time we spent there. My favourite artwork I saw throughout the entire day was Anne Wallace's "Sometimes I wonder", it is an amazing painting!
Review Time! Chuck Jone's 'High Note' is an endlessly creative short film that takes full advantage of the animated format.
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This is such a creative way to animate music. All of these personified music notes and how they construct and fall into the sheet music is so inventive.
The drunk note is incredible. There are so many cute things he does, and making a rest into his dog is just one of the ingenious ways Chuck Jones plays with the animation of what you’d expect to be such a simple subject.
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A wordless Looney Tunes entry where the notes on a page of sheet music go AWOL and refuse to behave themselves.
Chuck Jones in experimental mode (well, it is the 60's...barely). Quite daring, so I feel a bit basic for not liking it more. Maybe if I understood musical notation, I'd have been more tickled by it.
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the upload of this i watched was on facebook and is their video player always this shitty? it fucking automatically muted the video whenever you unpaused it literally how could that feature benefit anybody
Every Best Animated Short Film Nominee Ranked: boxd.it/kP6Ro
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Year In Progress: 1960
Double Feature with Frames of Reference (1960)
December 3rd, 1960
[7.3]I’m cracking my ass, on pure accident finally breaking the unspoken rule I made to not log any Looney Toons shorts, for fear of skewing every year list with just the sheer number of them, though I should’ve known better than to watch something directed by Chuck Jones.
Who am I to complain though because, as to be expected, Chuck and Co. are operating so efficient creatively, like the true animation masters they are.
This one is simple, and classic, though I can’t say I’ve ever seen it before. Wildly animated music notes of various different pitches, styles, and keys, dance around and slide across…
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Yet another highly creative Chuck Jones cartoon. He just never seemed to run out of ideas.
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RANKINGS: 1960 | Looney Tunes
I have three years of music theory education classes under my belt and can tell you this is exactly how it works.
A cheerfully meta deconstruction of our tendency to value certain genres of art over others. The contrast between classical music and drinking songs —both complex in their own way and each offering rich histories — is especially well-suited for an animated short, both in the abilities of the medium to bring unique characters to life and Chuck Jones' ability to lampshade the ways animation and short films are similarly viewed as "improper" film by losers with too much time on their hands.
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High Note really impresses me, because this breaks heavily from any expectations I'd have going into it for Looney Tunes, as the entire cast of characters here are music notes. I really like the way this creatively builds up the expected and familiar sort of world here... the way this gradually builds up the staves and populates them with symbols to play the music, just to go off the rails and break down the conventions as they were built up as soon as one note goes renegade.
It's a great burst of creativity, and so is very inventive while also being funny, and it never stagnates, moving on from each idea before it's burnt itself out.
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