Animation Artifacts 09 Jun 2006 07:06 am
Der Fuerher’s Face
– I’ve long been a fan of old sheet music and have a tiny collection of songs from animated pictures. I’m going to post a couple of them in the next week.
This is a song by Oliver Wallace in the Donald Duck cartoon, Der Fuerher’s Face. The sheet music is a bit rare in that it has the original title of the Donald film, Donald Duck In Nutzi Land.
They soon changed the title on the sheet music, especially after the music became a #1 hit in a version by Spike Jones & His City Slickers.
You can see the film on the Walt Disney Treasure DVD – On The Front Lines: Disney Goes To War.
The film deservedly won the Oscar for Best Short Subject in 1942. Its opposition were all propaganda war films.
(All images can be enlarged by clicking.) 
- Here’s the back page for those who want to see the Disney logo for sheet music back then.
- Continuing the musical thread, I love these musical objects found on Fwak Grab Bag (an entertaining site.)
- For those searching for CARS reviews by non-animation reviewers here are three from NYC: one glowing (NYDaily News), one mixed/negative (Village Voice), one negative (NYTimes).
