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...

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