Week 8 Quiz - Animation

True or False: In Waking Sleeping Beauty, Howard Ashman died after the official release of 'Beauty and the Beast'

• True

• False

Which one is the correct spelling of the famous cartoon?

• Looney Toons

• Looney Tunes

What was the name (or last name) of the famed composer of Fantasia and who Bugs Bunny parodied in the cartoon 'Long-haired Hare'?

True or False: The point of the cartoons titled 'Merrie Melodies' and 'Silly Symphonies', was to base the cartoons on the music rather than the animation

• True

• False

According to our text, what iconic Disney song is the studio's signature tune?

• A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes

• When You Wish Upon a Star

• One Upon a Dream

• Reflection

Answer explanation

'When You Wish Upon a Star' became the studio's signature tune after Leigh Harline won Academy Awards for both the tune and the orchestral score for the movie "Pinocchio" - sung by the character Jiminy Cricket (voiced by Cliff Edwards).

We talked about, as a class, several TV cartoons that made it onto the big screen. Name one...

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Classical music in cartoons have always been prominent since its inception. Fantasia, for example, utilizes music from various composers. Whose music is NOT featured in Fantasia?

• The Nutcracker Suite (P. Tchaikovsky)

• Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

  (J. S. Bach)

• The Barber of Seville

  (G. Rossini)

• The Sorcerer's Apprentice

  (P. Dukas)

What movie was Disney's first full-length animated feature?

• Steamboat Willie

• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

• Pinocchio

• The Goddess of Spring

True or False: Carl Stalling left Disney for Warner Bros. due to money issues

• True

• False

Our movie for the week, Oliver & Company, is a modern take on Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'. In which major city does the film take place?

• Los Angeles

• Detroit

• Atlanta

• New York City