A brief and bright animated history of music. Divided into brief vignettes, each with colourful characters dancing and/or playing music, it absorbs the viewer in a mixture of musical styles including primitive, pan flutes, Baroque, romantic, circus music, jazz, French popular, opera and variations of modern music.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
015341
Language
English
Subject categories
Music & Performing Arts → Music
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)
MPEG-1 Digital File - 2MB Rate; Copy
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)