Changes: Bumble Boogie

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Bumble Boogie is an animated short and the second segment from Disney's 1948 (10th) animated feature film Melody Time and the 1955 reissue, Contrasts in Rhythm.

Synopsis

A surrealistic nightmare for a solitary, tiny, aghast, fast and desparate bumblebee actually known as Bumble (to a boogie-woogie version of Flight of the Bumblebee) trying to escape the visual display and imminent harmony of a musical frenzy. He is being attacked by flowers and butterflies made of piano keys, flowers made of trumpets (plus fireworks from repeated animation), snakes made of piano keys, the piano hammers hitting the "strings" of the sheet music, running piano keys diving on water and falling piano keys. Bumble has put all of the piano keys back together where it is and the piano is restored at the end of the segment.

Gallery

Trivia

The music for this animated segment is courtesy of Freddy Martin and His Orchestra (with Jack Fina playing the piano) and is a swing-jazz variation of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, which was one of the many pieces considered for inclusion in Fantasia.

Notes & Production

According to the narrator, the work is a "nightmare instrumental" allows you to view a bumblebee in a surreal musical world. This had joined another surreal sequence from All the Cats Join In to Make Mine Music and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor from Disney's 1940 animated feature-film Fantasia.

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Media
Melody Time • House of Mouse • Video Segments: Once Upon a Wintertime • Bumble Boogie • The Legend of Johnny Appleseed • Little Toot • Trees • Blame It on the Samba • Pecos Bill

Disney Parks
Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn & Cafe • Wonderful World of Animation

Characters
Master of Ceremonies • Joe • Jenny • Bumble • Johnny Appleseed • Johnny's Angel • Little Toot • Big Toot • Donald Duck • José Carioca • Aracuan Bird • Pecos Bill • Slue-Foot Sue • Widowmaker • Vultures

Locations
New York City • Texas • South America

Songs
Melody Time • Once Upon a Wintertime • The Lord is Good to Me • Get on the Wagon Rolling West • There's a Lot of Work Out There to Do • Apple Feast • Little Toot • Trees • Blame It on the Samba • Blue Shadows on the Trail • Sweet Sue • Pecos Bill

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-|imagewidth = 250px|release = May 27, 1948}}'''''Bumble Boogie''''' is an animated short from the film ''[[Melody Time]].''
+|imagewidth = 250px|release = May 27, 1948<br>March 11, 1955 (re-release from ''[[Contrasts in Rhythm]]'')}}'''''Bumble Boogie''''' is an animated short and the second segment from Disney's 1948 (10th) animated feature film ''[[Melody Time]]'' and the 1955 reissue, ''[[Contrasts in Rhythm]]''.
 ==Synopsis==
-A surrealistic nightmare for a solitary bumblebee actually known as Bumble (to a boogie-woogie version of ''Flight of the Bumblebee'') trying to escape the visual display of a musical frenzy. He is being attacked by flowers made of piano keys, flowers made of trumpets (plus fireworks from repeated animation), snakes made of piano keys, the piano hammers hitting the "strings" of the sheet music, and so forth.
+A surrealistic nightmare for a solitary, tiny, aghast, fast and desparate bumblebee actually known as Bumble (to a boogie-woogie version of ''Flight of the Bumblebee'') trying to escape the visual display and imminent harmony of a musical frenzy. He is being attacked by flowers and butterflies made of piano keys, flowers made of trumpets (plus fireworks from repeated animation), snakes made of piano keys, the piano hammers hitting the "strings" of the sheet music, running piano keys diving on water and falling piano keys. Bumble has put all of the piano keys back together where it is and the piano is restored at the end of the segment.
 ==Gallery==
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 ==Trivia==
-The music for this animated segment is courtesy of [[Freddy Martin]] and His Orchestra (with Jack Fina playing the piano) and is a swing-jazz variation of Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Flight of the Bumblebee'', which was one of the many pieces considered for inclusion in ''[[Fantasia]]''.
+*The music for this animated segment is courtesy of [[Freddy Martin]] and His Orchestra (with Jack Fina playing the piano) and is a swing-jazz variation of Rimsky-Korsakov's ''Flight of the Bumblebee'', which was one of the many pieces considered for inclusion in ''[[Fantasia]]''.
-==Notes==
+==Notes & Production==
-According to the narrator, the work is a "nightmare instrumental" allows you to view a bumblebee in a surreal musical world. This had joined another surreal sequence from ''[[All the Cats Join In]]'' to ''[[Make Mine Music]]'' and ''[[Toccata and Fugue in D Minor]]'' from Disney's 1940 animated-feature ''[[Fantasia]]''.
+*According to the narrator, the work is a "nightmare instrumental" allows you to view a bumblebee in a surreal musical world. This had joined another surreal sequence from ''[[All the Cats Join In]]'' to ''[[Make Mine Music]]'' and ''[[Toccata and Fugue in D Minor]]'' from Disney's 1940 animated feature-film ''[[Fantasia]]''.
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