Symphony in Slang

Symphony in Slang

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Symphony in Slang
series =


caption =
director = Tex Avery
story_artist =
animator = Michael Lah
Grant Simmons
Walter Clinton
voice_actor =
musician = Scott Bradley
producer = Fred Quimby
distributor = MGM
release_date = June 16, 1951 (USA)
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 6 minutes, 43 seconds
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0044095

"Symphony in Slang" is a 1951 cartoon short directed by Tex Avery and released by MGM. Minimalist and abstract in style (many of the "gags" are created either with single, still frames or limited animation), it tells the story of a man John Brown (voice) who finds himself at the Pearly Gates explaining the story of his life to a bewildered Saint Peter and Noah Webster using contemporary slang. The majority of the short is made up of sight gags based on Peter and Webster's imagined, literal understandings of such phrases as "I couldn't cut the mustard" and "Outside it was raining cats and dogs."

External links

*imdb title|0044095
* [http://wardomatic.blogspot.com/2007/11/symphony-in-slang.html Analysis of Symphony in Slang]
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/wardomatic/sets/72157603301340180/ Gallery of images from the cartoon including layouts, backgrounds and stills.]


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